They claim Macs are so much better with performance, graphics, security, stability, etc..... well for the three years I was in photography (among other jobs I had to use Macs in) we used a G5 mac with their newest OS at the time. Photoshop continually crashed on me more then once a day. Either Photoshop would just shut down and I'd lose my work, or the whole thing would lock up and the only way out of it was to turn it off and back on again.
No error reports, no understanding what actually happened.... you just gotta hope it doesn't happen again, which it continually did.
Eventually we pumped in more RAM, a new CPU, a top of the line video card and everything else we could think of...... well.... the Mac ran faster....... Crashed faster too.
We also had a PC we used as backup, it had half the resources of the Mac and due to this, yes it was a bit slower in doing things, but guess what?
Nothing crashed on the PC and I could spend the entire day on the PC working on photos without having to restart or shutdown for whatever reason.
There are any number of things which could destabilize a system. The Photoshop version could simply be unstable. There may have been a daemon running in the background causing problems. It's not necessarily the OS's fault.
In the pre-OSX days this was very much true----Force Quit was next to useless. However, the OSX equivalent works fine. I've only encountered occasional programs that refuse to be closed by it, and it's never locked up the machine.Not only that but Windows has a hell of a lot better Task Manager program for ending programs and processes before they screw up. On the Mac, even their version sometimes would just simply lock up or simply not shut down the program in question.
The notion that more than one button should be required is a conceit you bring with you from Windows. It is not inherantly better. The workflow on a Mac is designed such that multiple buttons are not required.I also didn't like the whole idea of buying an over priced, over glorified computer that came with a mouse that only had one damn button. Sure you can go out and buy a cheap wheel mouse with two buttons or more..... but for the amount you're already paying for a Mac, you'd think tossing in one of these decent $20 mice with wheel and two buttons wouldn't be asking for much.
Multiple buttons are supported because a lot of people are used to working that way-----but the OS is simply not designed around that concept.
Secondary-button tasks (supported via control-clicks on a one-button mouse) have started appearing here and there just because the momentum in that regard is clear, but I don't blame Apple for trying a different approach. Being different is the whole point, after all.
Nobody's suggesting it's a good idea not to have an anti-virus program. Just that you're far less likely to run into any trouble even if you don't.And the whole argument that Mac's don't get viruses, thus you don't need an anti-virus program?
That will never happen, thus any line of reasoning predicated on this condition is irrelevant.If suddenly the majority of the world used Macs.....
The design of the original iMac was inspired by a dog carrier, so the story goes.Sure Macs are fancy looking. Some of them I wouldn't mind using as fish tanks.