| Game_boy said: What disadvantages are there of using a Mac? I don't need to use specific branded programs, but are there any general limitations? Can you describe the desktop experience and how it differs from Windows and (if possible) Linux? Should I buy a Mac? |
1. Only price, and only if you want a low end laptop. When you buy a Mac, you are forced to buy high end hardware. If you go to Dell, or anywhere else, and Spec out a PC laptop with the same stuff as a MBP, you will pay more. As for any other disadvantage, none. The fastest Vista laptop released last year, was a Mac. When I got my MBP, I got it with the intent of deleting the OS and running XP/Linux (I am a .NET developer). I fell in love with OSX, and now I run it almost exclusively. I have Windows installed in a virtual machine, and use it to develop, but other then that, I run OSX.
2. No, I cannot describe it. There are a thousand little things that just work better, but to talk about any one of them would not tell the whole story. To really understand how much better it is, you need to use it.
3. Yes, definitely. I own about every piece of electronics one could have (360/PS3/Wii/High end PC/30" Dell display/MBP/1080p HDTV/Smart Phone/PSP/Canon 10D Camera/I-pod/the list goes on), and if I could only own one of them, it would be the Mac hands down. And this comes from someone who hated Mac up until they went with a UNIX OS and Intel.
Hell, I have an MSDN license (get all MS software for free), and I still buy Mac software. It truly is years ahead of anything else out there (including Linux, which I love).
