Comments on: Why Buy A Mac? I Don’t Get It….

By: Mitch Stevens

Mitch Stevens — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:15:31 +0000

Nice article. I am in the same boat as you. I just made the move from Windows to Mac myself about two years ago. I have to say since I did I have never looked back. Everything “just works” I know how you feel. they are a bit pricey. I hope to see the price lower soon. I think if they would come down on the price many more windows buyers would start using the Mac. I can say from personal experience price was what keep me from buying mac products for many years. Thanks

By: skywalk

skywalk — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:47:43 +0000

In reply to Yuri. Hmm Intel processors are inside every iMac, MacPro, Macbooks just so you know.

By: Php

Php — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:55:30 +0000

Loads of bullsh1t!

U never used mac how would u know?

By: Green Bob

Green Bob — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:06:39 +0000

The first conputer to offer “windows” was Mac..The modern interface is beautiful, and they are a pleasure to use.
The Microsoft platform is primitive and now they gone to “touch screen”..revolting. I am proficient on both platforms. I’ll take Mac for any task any day, Thank you

By: Jimmy Wade

Jimmy Wade — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:40:12 +0000

QUALITY!!!!!!! Need I say more!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:24:35 +0000

Why get a Mac?
1. Because it can do everything a PC can do, only, in a fun, streamline sort of way.
2. Because, if you need a break from the Mac OSX operating system, it’s one of the best Machines for running Windows, 7, 8, 9, etc.
3. Because the iPhone (Siri),iPad, Mac, combination, is simply unbeatable. I don’t have to type things anymore. I simply think, say, and it does it. Thanks to my Apple eco-system, my entire home is automated in the coolest most productive way.
4. I am a programmer and spent many years using Windows. Time on a PC was work. Work on a Mac is fun.

By: GB

GB — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:32:46 +0000

In reply to rjb. Exactly! I was resisting Apple for years! Then I started noticing my students using more and more Macbook Pros and Airs. I tried it. I couldn't resist anymore. I'm a convert. Why is Intel going rabid against Apple with paying manufacturers to make Ultrabooks? Shouldn't Intel be trying to help Apple?

By: Joe Tomasone

Joe Tomasone — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:27:21 +0000

In reply to Micah Madru.

The same pride that emboldens fans of sports teams, and the same desire for them to WIN WIN WIN!

I never really got around to the point in my article that I am not a fanboy of anything, really. I truly believe that you should invest in the right tool for the job, no matter who makes it. That is why I didn’t understand the value of Macs for all of these years – I simply used PCs because they were cheaper and got the job done. What I didn’t understand was how much nicer the overall experience could be.

I actually compared prices for a 128GB 13.3″ MacBook Air and an ultrabook with comparable specs at Best Buy and found that the Windows PC was $400 cheaper. Previously, I would have concluded that the $400 difference represented no value other than an Apple premium for its product; but now, I believe that the $400 buys you a superior computing experience, and it is now a premium that I am willing to pay. The price differential was a lot greater in decades past, making it much easier to “become a Mac” nowadays.

By: Joe Tomasone

Joe Tomasone — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:19 +0000

In reply to Sir Cake.

You know, I had never really thought of the iPhone as my “gateway drug”, but in retrospect, it clearly was. It introduced the concept of “experience”, and while I like to tinker and customize as much as anyone else, Android just never seemed to provide the same satisfying experience. The Treo certainly didn’t. I’m getting that same “experience” feeling now with my new MacBook, and while I won’t go so far as to say it’s overwhelmingly superior to a Windows PC, it’s more than enough to make me glad I bought it.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:10:15 +0000

I too am a former Microsoft enthusiast and, like you, it was the Iphone that brought me over. Also, the old brick Ipod started the transition. I now run a service company with all Mac products and seamless integration across mobile offices in which we operate. Why buy a PC indeed!?

By: rjb

rjb — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:51:34 +0000

I felt I was reading my own thoughts and experiences when reading this article.
Microsoft lover, .net developer. I said to myself, I am not buying Steve Jobs’s lies, I don’t need an iphone, blah blah, until those shiny displays at Best Buy, Future Shop caught my attention, slowly I started to want one more and more and I finally did.
Same happened with the ipad, why would I want something like that?, I woult play with it in the Apple Store, feeling more and more intrigued, more and more eager to own one, then I fell for it.
Right now I can tell you, unless Apple screws really badly, there is zero chance I would buy a phone other than an iphone or a tablet other than an ipad.

And the Mac, well, I am feeling the same itch as with the iphone and ipad, worse yet, I have tried Apple products. It’s like when I tried some organic white cherries from California and could never eat other cherries anymore.

Damn Apple..

By: Micah Madru

Micah Madru — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:22:03 +0000

I’m an avid Linux user (and could never imagine paying over a grand for a general purpose laptop) but I will admit that it does have a nice feel to them. The problem is the value in them. I recently had a debate with a bunch of apple fanboys on google+. I call them fanboys not because i’m trying to be insultive of apple users. But because that’s what they are.

They made so many outrageous claims!
– Macs are cheaper for same specs. Wtf that was a new one
– Mac is better at graphical performance.
– Macs have the lowest failure rates in the market. (Asus wins that one).
– Apple macs most of their parts, whereas pc manufactures just assemble them.

I was genuinely shocked at the misinformation that these apple fans were spewing. I showed evidence after evidence for my claims, and they dismissed them one after the other with a simple “do more research.”

I’m wondering, what causes people to become such fanboys?

By: Sir Cake

Sir Cake — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:44:40 +0000

Really great piece, Joe. It pretty much sums up how a lot of us PC folks drifted slowly, perhaps even unwillingly – but inexorably – to Apples. Your ‘gateway drug’ was the iPhone; for me it was the iPod. I don’t know how much money I “saved” on frustrating, featureless, non-intuitive and crappy-sounding mp3 players before I finally broke down and got my first iPod. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than anything else I’d ever tried before.

Now, a bunch of years later, and I have iPods, iPhones, iPads and MacBooks. Sure, every one of them was way too expensive. But they all let me be as productive (or decidedly *un*productive) as I want. They work.

I don’t know what Yuri (above) is talking about – seems to me Apple, which sells the OS, the hardware, the software, the apps and even the music, is more monopolistic than Microsoft could ever hope to be. I don’t do “art” on my computer. I do work on my computer, and I play on it, too. Apples are more expensive because they are worth it.

I am worth it.

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:26:16 +0000

I was the same way. I had dozens of phones (winmo, android,bb etc) before I got the iPhone 4 the day I came out. Decided I’d never look back. Now have the iPhone 4S 64gb. And an iPad, and an iPad 2 64gb 3G, two iPods, a MacBook air 13″ 256 (possibly one of the best computers ever?), a 21.5″ iMac, an iPod nano, 2 apple tv 2, and a bunch of accessories..

Before that iPhone 4, I had never owned an apple device, and was convinced I never would. I was a huge Microsoft fan. Now I can’t believe that I suffered through it all for almost 29 years…. Lion is embarrassingly amazing when compared with windows.

I don’t get it either…. Why buy a pc?

By: Yuri

Yuri — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:52:38 +0000

Great article! I also thought that Apple was just a fashion statement, until I tried a friend’s iMac for a couple hours.

All I can say is, “WOW!”. I went from cynical Apple hater to Steve Jobs groupie.

Intel can tell and pay the manufacturers to make Macbook Air clones. Intel can bash the heck out of Apple (for who knows why)?

But.. At the end of the day, most people can now see that the Ultracopies of the Macbook Air are just crap in thin cases.

Windows is run by a complacent monopolist.

Ultrabooks are funded by a monopolist.

When are these monopolists going to learn that you’ve got to give consumers what they want? They want Windows crap, and Apple art.

Simple.