2017/05/23

What are the reasons that people buy MacBooks?

I could enumerate some reasons , not sure I can include battery backup.

  1. Macs come from one vendor. Until recently Microsoft did not sell their own computers. So you basically have (at least) two vendors to deal with, namely the computer vendor and Microsoft themselves. Also , the computer vendor sometimes add their own utility to configure , bluetooth, wifi, trackpad etc. In addition to the native Microsoft utilities. So instead of having one good way to configure wi-fi you have a couple of mediocre ways. Sometimes the vendor and Microsoft have conflicting goals. For example, Microsoft wants everyone to use Windows 10. However, if you bought a Dell, for example with Windows 7 and bricked it due to a Windows 10 upgrade, Dell will most likely tell you to re-install Windows 7. In business this is called “having one throat to choke”.
  2. In many cities and colleges Apple has a local presence. This means you can bring your computer back to an Apple rep for advice and repairs.
  3. Macs have a more consistent UI- This changes little from version to version and you don’t usually have to change things. Going from Windows XP to Windows 7 was annoying for me. Going from 7 to 8 to 8.1 really annoyed me until I installed classic shell. Which I do for Windows 10 as well.
  4. Macs have a more elegant experience in many cases. These days when I use Windows laptops they come from work and I have to take what I can get. The Dell I had was pretty decent, except that it weight a lot. The Thinkpad I got , I hated because the trackpad was unusable and they purposely left off the Caps Lock Led. So if you run Windows you need to run their Caps Lock utility to see it on the screen. If you run Linux you are pretty much SOL. With Mac you can pretty well count on a decent trackpad and keyboard. Macs, in general , tend to be lighter, displays are very nice. I’ve always found that if you match the specs between a Windows Laptop and a Macbook you are within a couple of hundred dollars in cost. YMMV.
  5. The Mac infrastructureis nice— For example, the notes utility on iphones, ipads and Macs automatically updates on other devices when you update on one. Same goes for Contacts ,etc usually shared through iCloud. (iCloud is not my favoured cloud provider. One of the things that Apple screwed up.) If you have an apple router you can wirelessly backup your Mac on to a remote time capsule. I personally just connect an external hard disk.
  6. Macs tend to get hacked less—This has nothing to do with inherent security. For one thing current Windows 10 systems are probably more secure. But Macs don’t have enough market share to attract viruses , ransomeware. They are an uninteresting target. That being said I currently run anti-virus software on my MBP. Special Offer:
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