Then I discovered Windows 7 and switched back to PC.
*That PC was a low end 4-year-old Athlon dual core that could barely play 720p YouTube videos, as a point of comparison. For it to beat my new Macbook Pro in everyday usage was just damning.
1. Blurry text :)
2. iLife apps are nicely approximated by Windows Live. Before I checked out Windows Live Movie Maker, I was very impressed with iMovie.
3. Lack of apps (e.g., wasn't able to find a decent fullscreen, borderless terminal emulator like the alt-enter mode of putty).
4. Didn't seem especially fast or anything compared to Windows (on a 4G machine).
5. Loved the unixyness of the OS. But it's subtly not Unix, which breaks some things. E.g., macports' GCC 4.5.1 + gdb wasn't stable compared to Apple's older versions of gcc. I now ssh into an Ubuntu box from Windows (putty + tmux + consolas FTW) for development.
Of course I don't do much real work in Windows - that's reserved for FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Debian on various real and virtual systems.
- Partly as a result of the above, it's noticeably faster.
- Time Machine (albeit it would be much nicer if it were based on ZFS).
- It comes bundled with pretty computers that have no blue LEDs (and most users, Windows and Mac alike, just stick to whatever came pre-installed). My last HP had 18 blue light sources piercing my retinas all the time.
- The company comes with a very charismatic CEO.
- It's prettier than Windows.
- It just works. And keeps working.
- If you are a developer, it offers a rich Unix environment matched only by Linux machines - that, I have to admit, don't work as consistently. It also comes with a kick-ass IDE for free.
- It already ships with a decent web browser. No need to download and install one.
- The App Store promises near-Linux ease for finding, selecting, downloading and keeping software up-to-date. It certainly beats the Windows way of googling for the software, hitting a malware site, going back, searching more, finding the correct site, downloading an executable and giving it the keys to the kingdom so it can do whatever it wants with your computer, something it may never recover from.
- Easily installed on any machine you want.
- Hardware generally has two or more mouse buttons.
- Will run more games and software than OSX.
- Does not come with an app store.
