If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? Abandoning the OS would be far more difficult for most people than abandoning the underlying CPU architecture.
Why? The applications people are familiar with are available on Windows. MS Office is the main one. My own parents have been using Macs for many years but recently in a volunteer capacity had to use the supplied Windows 10 computers. They found the transition quite easy. In fact my mother remarked that Windows 10 was much more Mac-like than older versions of Windows. The jump from Finder to Explorer was pretty simple (despite the lack of a paned interface in Windows). MS Office seemed about the same to t
Why? The applications people are familiar with are available on Windows. MS Office is the main one. My own parents have been using Macs for many years but recently in a volunteer capacity had to use the supplied Windows 10 computers. They found the transition quite easy. In fact my mother remarked that Windows 10 was much more Mac-like than older versions of Windows. The jump from Finder to Explorer was pretty simple (despite the lack of a paned interface in Windows). MS Office seemed about the same to them, other than superficial UI differences. Firefox, Thunderbird are nearly the same too. Plus the use of web-based tools meant the platform didn't really matter. They had no complaints about Windows 10, which surprised me.
Have you had your parents checked for mental deterioration or memory issues? (I kid; but you get my point)
I work with both Windows (10 and 7, plus several versions of Windows Server) every single day, and there is simply no comparison in smoothness, ease-of-use, and features-that-users-actually-can-use. MacOS wins all of those, hands-down; particularly as you have other Apple devices in your household. The level of integration and "this is what computers are supposed to be" in macOS, particularly in the past 3 or 4 major revisions of macOS and its brethren, is completely unmatched on any other platform.
I'm out... (Score:3, Interesting)
If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
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If Apple goes thru with this, I will stop buying macbook pros for myself and stop my employer from buying them. That would be roughly 4000 purchases every 3 years.
Perhaps you could explain your reasoning? Abandoning the OS would be far more difficult for most people than abandoning the underlying CPU architecture.
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Why? The applications people are familiar with are available on Windows. MS Office is the main one. My own parents have been using Macs for many years but recently in a volunteer capacity had to use the supplied Windows 10 computers. They found the transition quite easy. In fact my mother remarked that Windows 10 was much more Mac-like than older versions of Windows. The jump from Finder to Explorer was pretty simple (despite the lack of a paned interface in Windows). MS Office seemed about the same to t
Re:I'm out... (Score:2)
Why? The applications people are familiar with are available on Windows. MS Office is the main one. My own parents have been using Macs for many years but recently in a volunteer capacity had to use the supplied Windows 10 computers. They found the transition quite easy. In fact my mother remarked that Windows 10 was much more Mac-like than older versions of Windows. The jump from Finder to Explorer was pretty simple (despite the lack of a paned interface in Windows). MS Office seemed about the same to them, other than superficial UI differences. Firefox, Thunderbird are nearly the same too. Plus the use of web-based tools meant the platform didn't really matter. They had no complaints about Windows 10, which surprised me.
Have you had your parents checked for mental deterioration or memory issues? (I kid; but you get my point)
I work with both Windows (10 and 7, plus several versions of Windows Server) every single day, and there is simply no comparison in smoothness, ease-of-use, and features-that-users-actually-can-use. MacOS wins all of those, hands-down; particularly as you have other Apple devices in your household. The level of integration and "this is what computers are supposed to be" in macOS, particularly in the past 3 or 4 major revisions of macOS and its brethren, is completely unmatched on any other platform.
That's not fanboyism; that's fact.