Do you think an Apple Mac book is significantly better than a Microsoft Windows computer?

@WonderGirl The only thing keeping me in windows is the production software. I’ve been using Publisher, PowerPoint and Access since last century. Also VBA. Google Sheets is better than Excel imo, but I don’t like the idea of a cloud based system. Apple Numbers is prettier than Sheets and Excel :)

@Fishy Yeah, when our older son was in high school and saw one of his friends playing on a gaming PC, he wanted one. He had saved up about $700, and we specced out a graphics card, motherboard, CPU, etc and got the parts from MicroCenter. Soon enough he had assembled a decent gaming rig and his other friends wanted to do the same.

He ended up showing several of his friends (and our younger son) how to put together a PC, and I acted as backup consultant to troubleshoot the tough problems. It was a great learning experience and a fun time!

@Fishy Unfortunately Microsoft is intentionally changing that. Beginning to play the proprietary game.

@Gibbon unfortunately, MS never crossed Access, Money, VB to the Mac. Actually they abandoned or are in the process of abandoning all of the above themselves. As I recall, at some point, one of the best web page builders was their MS Publisher. Better than some of their web development products. Then they chopped off that feature from Publisher.

@Adogslife that's my experience with Windows, but then cheaper 😅

@FreddieUK man newer macs don’t need to be charged as frequently, no fans. The thing is so good

@mysteryespresso Good to know. 👍

@Heartlander yup. For some reason iOS feels way more stable and responsive than windows

@mysteryespresso yea, the IMAC is plug and go, whether it’s a different printer or scanner or whatever. With Windows it’s plug and what the hell??

@Heartlander look for drivers, hit and trial, trouble shooting and still sometimes it won’t work.

On my pc it would list pending printing jobs and printer won’t print. I know a workaround- just restart the printer or reconnect to your pc.

Mac is more streamlined for workflow, pc is streamlined for cost saving

@mysteryespresso I have had no issues at all, I am on my second one. My first one was damaged when it got dropped. They start up very quickly and just work right out of the box. No viruses no hard drive and very very fast web surfing. They don't have all the drivers for all the different additions you can have so getting a printer to work is sometimes a bit of a challenge. It can be done but not just plug and play.

@hippyjoe1955 on my first apple Mac, this thing works well so long as you don't care about money

@mysteryespresso Yeah Apple was too expensive when I started using computers so I went PC. Then they got very expensive and the endless delays as they upgraded until - oops your machine doesn't support our latest upgrade so you have to buy a new machine because we won't support our old product. Chromebook upgrades all the time in the background and other than a restart every once in a while no big deal. BTW the restart only takes a few minutes unlike a PC.

@sirweighsalot Linux isn’t easy to install and use

@sirweighsalot I like how linux has supplanted apple in the "How do you know if someone is a mac user, just wait they'll tell you" joke.