I've also disabled lots of services, processes on startup or that run in the backgroud and still, for some tasks the computer barely runs faster than my last one on windows 7 even though it has double the memory a faster processor and some other perks,(well the system consumes about 3 GB or more at all times so there is that) and web browsing has become a challenge in that no matter the browser the memory consumption escalates so damn high that lots of times is the thing that starts slowing down and later i've have to exit and clean everything, when in windows 7 I had browsers with hundreds suspended tabs reviewing them one by one when analyzing search results.
| SvennoJ said: My oldest has a MacBook since June. He says it's great, no issues and often helps out my wife now when she needs shipping labels created/printed. Windows is a mess. It takes me 24h to backup the (128GB) data from my wife's iPhone since Windows keeps aborting the copy if you try to copy too much at one time. So I have to copy in small batches, one directory at a time and for the bigger ones, split them in parts. (After praying to the universe to actually get Windows to list files on the iPhone in File Explorer) |
Oh the horror of moving between systems yes, I also transferred up some files on ipad and iphone a few moths ago with the help of my sister macbook(that is 2017 I think, but still works like a charm) and then for some days the PC with 10 couldn't recognize the devices, even tough it did before, I think because of an update, later when finally it could, for example the photo import that worked so well on Windows 7 got stuck on windows 10 with their photos app, now that they revamped their photos app again it finally works, on direct transfer some files that had long dir paths send errors when trying to import on windows 10
Firefox was certainly lighter on Mac yeah, it was easier to use there that it is on windows, in fact it was easier to use Safari, Firefox, Opera, and then Chrome, (and the Chromium compiled binaries were also better than chrome but sometimes the dudes that were doing them didn't update for sometime), while on windows i think the performance is better for Chromiums like Opera or Brave, some say that Edge runs well, but I find it kinda clukny and slow since its trying to integrate with other windows things, and also i'ts kinda shady with respect to privacy so i've just mantain it shut down, I would like to use firefox but currently it's on the bottom of the barrel performance wise(and it was involved in two sudden shutdowns of the system when I was using it).
