Comments on: Things I love about PCs. Really, for real. http://jeremyscheller.com/2009/01/01/things-i-love-about-pcs-really-for-real/ DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS, FOOD, & OTHER THINGS THAT MATTER TO ME Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Terrace Crawford http://jeremyscheller.com/2009/01/01/things-i-love-about-pcs-really-for-real/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Terrace Crawford Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:08:39 +0000 http://jeremyscheller.com/?p=481#comment-226 Nice. Starting off the new year with humility. Love it. -Terrace Crawford http://www.terrracecrawford.com http://www.twitter.com/terracecrawford Nice. Starting off the new year with humility. Love it.

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]]> By: Brad http://jeremyscheller.com/2009/01/01/things-i-love-about-pcs-really-for-real/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Brad Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:28:39 +0000 http://jeremyscheller.com/?p=481#comment-225 Great post... thanks for being positive! I applaud you for putting some genuine goodwill into the mix. This should be more common. I'm normally more of a Windows guy but here are a few of the things I admire about Mac: 1. Beautiful design. Let's face it, Apple knows packaging, and they know sexy. Dell? Not so much. 2. Easy out-of-the-box experience. You can plug in a Mac and be online in minutes. Windows takes a *bit* longer, though not too much. But sometimes minutes count when you're trying to convince a wife/mother/grandmother that computers are "easy". 3. Security online. This one is only temporary, I think. Mac users in 2007/2008 are relatively insulated from the viruses and other junk that bugs Windows users all the time. This isn't really because Mac is so much more superior, but because the Mac community is smaller. As Apple gains market share, hackers will probably start targeting them more. But for now, yes, Macs have fewer viruses. 4. Great handling of audio/video/photos: the iLife suite makes this very easy. Editing video, making coffee table books, or editing music are pretty foolproof on MacOS. There are similar free tools available with Windows Live, but nobody knows about them. Bottom line: computers are just tools. You can pretty much get the same task done on either a PC or Mac; it's just that the path to get there is different. Great post… thanks for being positive! I applaud you for putting some genuine goodwill into the mix. This should be more common. I’m normally more of a Windows guy but here are a few of the things I admire about Mac:

1. Beautiful design. Let’s face it, Apple knows packaging, and they know sexy. Dell? Not so much.

2. Easy out-of-the-box experience. You can plug in a Mac and be online in minutes. Windows takes a *bit* longer, though not too much. But sometimes minutes count when you’re trying to convince a wife/mother/grandmother that computers are “easy”.

3. Security online. This one is only temporary, I think. Mac users in 2007/2008 are relatively insulated from the viruses and other junk that bugs Windows users all the time. This isn’t really because Mac is so much more superior, but because the Mac community is smaller. As Apple gains market share, hackers will probably start targeting them more. But for now, yes, Macs have fewer viruses.

4. Great handling of audio/video/photos: the iLife suite makes this very easy. Editing video, making coffee table books, or editing music are pretty foolproof on MacOS. There are similar free tools available with Windows Live, but nobody knows about them.

Bottom line: computers are just tools. You can pretty much get the same task done on either a PC or Mac; it’s just that the path to get there is different.

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