<p>So I was visiting UVA a couple of days ago and the tour guide took us into the library. As I walked through the library, I begin to see (these horrible things called) Macbooks. 1, 4, 8, 15 and so on. I couldn't believe at how many I had seen. About 70% of the students in there had Macbooks.</p>
<p>What's the craze over these Macbooks? The specs aren't even that good compared to a customized PC (actually, sometimes Macs are a lot even worse). I've heard at most engineering schools that you'd need a PC to be able to use all the programs effectively anyways... Do students just get them just because they look nice (I'll admit that they do look nice). Do they get it because it's hip to have an overpriced POS?</p>
<p>Please tell me why anyone should get a Mac? Only reason I can think of a person getting a Mac is if they're going into art and design...</p>
<p>Sorry for any typos, that was in a rush haha</p>
<p>I won’t doubt that they look fashionable and cool, but I’m not going to pay premium for a Mac when I can get a regular laptop with similar specs for under $1k. IJS</p>
<p>I’m using a mac right now, but I know next to nothing about computers. My reasons for liking macs over all the other laptop computers are that it looks nicer, and is, at least for my type of mac, easier to carry around.</p>
<p>I love my MAC notebook. It works with other devices easily and MAC’s don’t get viruses as easily off the Net. There are two big reasons for choosing MAC’s over PC’s right there. </p>
<p>MAC’s make it easy to install software upgrades as well. I admit I am not computer expert either. PC’s are uglier and cheaper.</p>
<p>Mac OS X is fundamentally a superior operating system - a Unix-based core for stability and power, with an excellent graphical user interface for ease of use and management. It really is the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>The cost of Apple hardware isn’t that much more than comparable Wintel systems, and you get what you pay for in terms of quality, design and owner experience.</p>
<p>A Toyota Camry sedan costs less than a BMW 3-series sedan. How can it be that thousands of people are willing to pay thousands more for the BMW? Maybe price isn’t everything, hmm?</p>
<p>Totally overblown. Nobody has access to that log except the phone owner. It’s not remotely transmitted anywhere. Consensus is that it’s probably a bugged cache file which should be deleting itself, and will likely be fixed in the next iOS update.</p>
<p>Nobody has access to the log until you let them have access to your iPhone. Which, if you didn’t know that cache existed, you might not prevent.</p>
<p>It’s not really a huge security concern, just an example of the kind of thing Apple lets slip through. I prefer PCs, since I at least can figure fairly well what is on them.</p>
<p>"Mac OS X is fundamentally a superior operating system - a Unix-based core for stability and power, with an excellent graphical user interface for ease of use and management. It really is the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>The cost of Apple hardware isn’t that much more than comparable Wintel systems, and you get what you pay for in terms of quality, design and owner experience.</p>
<p>A Toyota Camry sedan costs less than a BMW 3-series sedan. How can it be that thousands of people are willing to pay thousands more for the BMW? Maybe price isn’t everything, hmm?"</p>
<p>Now, you have to realize how much of a scam Apple really is. Linux is based on Unix, they don’t charge a dime. If you don’t like the UI, there are tons of UIs out there like Gnome, KDE, Xfce, and others out there. No viruses? Psh, when does Apple roll out security upgrades? And the upgrades cost money. Linux it is all free. </p>
<p>Now, who ever said anything about boot camp: you don’t know crap about computers. Nuff said. You do realize Microsoft had bootloaders that support other OSes from the beginning… (not DOS, only after windows) and Linux had it forever. Boot camp came out a couple years ago. It really ****es me off. People think that it is some innovative idea. It has been around for decades ever since processors started running in protected virtual mode. If you have no idea what I just said, you have no right to argue or debate with me.</p>
<p>It is the simple fact people think it “looks” nicer, however there too dumb to actually research more and realize they are being ripped off. </p>
<p>WOAH WATCH OUT, HERE IS A PC LESS THAN ANY MAC THAT IS WAY BETTER THAN MOST MACS.
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<p>One reason that macs have gained in popularity (beside marketing and ipod/iphone halo effect) is that 95% of pc users aren’t hobbyists, and price aside (which really isn’t that much different if you fairly spec the machines), for the typical user OSX is more streamlined, intuitive and just works better, especially for things like networking and peripheral connectivity. People want to open their laptop and have everything work. That is what it does for the most part. Simplifying things, OSX is essentially UNIX with a proprietary frontend, but you can access the UNIX terminal, but the vast majority of users don’t because command line interfaces are not how most people want to use a computer. In that way though, it is both simple using the GUI and very powerful using the terminal. I use both windows and OSX, but my personal home machines are always running OSX (and have been for the past decade, with Parallels if I have to do anything in a windows environment). There are also zero, repeat zero, viruses running around in the wild for OSX (every instance has been a proof-of-concept worm or trojan). All the secruity patches (which are far, far fewer than windows) are preemptive, and absolutely free (ridiculously uninformed comment above). The fact that anyone would compare Gnome and KDE frontends to OSX really illustrates that they don’t get the average user. That said, I have both of those installed on my macbook, but just to tinker with, and they are significantly inferior GUIs to both Windows and OSX.</p>
<p>Now that said, some people just like Windows, and whatever you are more productive on, or enjoy, that is what you should use. In my experience, the average user is more productive on OSX though, because they have very little to think about there. If I am getting someone’s grandparents a computer, it’s not even a contest which OS you want them on. Grandpa’s OS may sound like sacrilege to hobbyists, but again, hobbyists aren’t typical users.</p>