Posted by: fountaindew February 19, 2012
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I'm going to put my perspective as well.
I own both Windows and Apple Products. I have a home built Intel i7 990x PC system on Win7 and I have couple of iphones and Macbook Air and a Lenovo Win7 Laptop.
Things I love about Macs and Iphones is that the user experience is very good. They have nice asthetics and form factors and very tightly integrated ecosystem. I never had any issues like crashing or anything with them and I love the facetime feature. I absolutely hate itunes. It boils my blood everytime when I use it. I don't worry too much about price tag. They spend a lot in research and development and their products may be costly but it's worth every penny in my opinion. The conditions in Foxconn has nothing to do with my user experience. Every single one of the chinese products is that way so I won't single out Apples.
Things I love about windows is that it's a cheap alternative to apple and I get a lot of free SW. However flip side is that the HW does not measure up with the standards. My lenovo has constant problems with the display and I paid $800 for it (I bought the Mac air for $1150). So for 350 more I'm getting a slightly better OS and better HW then the crappy Lenovo. But that has nothing with windows. So it's not a windows problem but a Lenovo problem in my opinion. And windows 7 is pretty stable except I always get weary when it updates. Once I updated the service pack and it never came back online. I later found out that the disk space ran out while it was trying to upgrade. That's a stupid mistake. Why can't windows check for disk space and warn the user before it upgrades rather than upgrade halfway and crash? It totally pissed me off and I had to restore the HDD image from older copy of windows (Using clonezilla). My iphone has always warned me of disk space before trying to update anything. So I believe this is windows only problem. So Windows is a little unpolished but it's cheap so can't complain much.
My i7 on win7 is pretty stable and only had few issues with them. But some of the SW that runs on Win7 is total crap. Like Movie Maker live. But that can be analogous with the crappy itunes. Has nothing to do with OS.
So all in all, I like both systems. I am more confident about Mac OX but there's a price to pay for that. Windows I have less confidence but I have all the tools to fix the PC problems by myself if needed.
I own both Windows and Apple Products. I have a home built Intel i7 990x PC system on Win7 and I have couple of iphones and Macbook Air and a Lenovo Win7 Laptop.
Things I love about Macs and Iphones is that the user experience is very good. They have nice asthetics and form factors and very tightly integrated ecosystem. I never had any issues like crashing or anything with them and I love the facetime feature. I absolutely hate itunes. It boils my blood everytime when I use it. I don't worry too much about price tag. They spend a lot in research and development and their products may be costly but it's worth every penny in my opinion. The conditions in Foxconn has nothing to do with my user experience. Every single one of the chinese products is that way so I won't single out Apples.
Things I love about windows is that it's a cheap alternative to apple and I get a lot of free SW. However flip side is that the HW does not measure up with the standards. My lenovo has constant problems with the display and I paid $800 for it (I bought the Mac air for $1150). So for 350 more I'm getting a slightly better OS and better HW then the crappy Lenovo. But that has nothing with windows. So it's not a windows problem but a Lenovo problem in my opinion. And windows 7 is pretty stable except I always get weary when it updates. Once I updated the service pack and it never came back online. I later found out that the disk space ran out while it was trying to upgrade. That's a stupid mistake. Why can't windows check for disk space and warn the user before it upgrades rather than upgrade halfway and crash? It totally pissed me off and I had to restore the HDD image from older copy of windows (Using clonezilla). My iphone has always warned me of disk space before trying to update anything. So I believe this is windows only problem. So Windows is a little unpolished but it's cheap so can't complain much.
My i7 on win7 is pretty stable and only had few issues with them. But some of the SW that runs on Win7 is total crap. Like Movie Maker live. But that can be analogous with the crappy itunes. Has nothing to do with OS.
So all in all, I like both systems. I am more confident about Mac OX but there's a price to pay for that. Windows I have less confidence but I have all the tools to fix the PC problems by myself if needed.