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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?
I use my Mac for everything.
Web browsing? Let's see a windows machine beat three browsers open on three different spaces hopping between them with Spaces hotkeys, all while chatting on an IM window that follows me across the spaces, accessed via Expose. Once Windows reaches that usability level, I will return to them.
Word processing? Microsoft Office has yet to beat the UI and usability of Pages or Open Office. No contest there.
Reliability? Don't even need to go into this one...
Battery Life? I get four hours of heavy use with WiFi on, and music playing with the screen on bright. And my computer is over a year old!
System Stability? I haven't even turned off my laptop for 26 days. No crashes, no failures, no problems. Bring it on, Windows. My record on my prior Windows Desktop? 9 days.
Usability? Can't beat Spaces, Expose, Quicksilver and Spotlight. Windows offers no native alternatives to features that I can no longer function without. Without a comparison to this, I won't change back. After becoming hooked on these (and multi touch), I can't even describe Windows as usable anymore.
Multi-Touch? Yeah. Can't live without this, too.
Nice quality screen? Yes please.
Power user tools? I have 96 distinct shell scripts that do different jobs for me. Windows is not Unix based. I use AppleScript on almost a daily basis for automated and bulk tasks. Windows has no alternative. I run Solidworks inside of a Virtual Machine for work, and all is lightning fast.
Windows cannot offer solutions for usability problems that I require. Until it can, I will not use Windows. That's all there is to it.
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