Ok i'll give you why I use macs. Obviously other people will see this differently but whatever. Like most people i started off using pc's through the 90's. I used them in school and learned how to type on them. My computer experience up until i was 19 was purely windows based. I had a windows computer in my room and didn't think much about apple because in the 90's apple was pretty much bullshit. Steve Jobs wasn't there and it was run by people that didn't know what they were doing. Allowing mac clones, etc.
The first time i used a mac was in 2000. It was in a music studio. Logic 4 was pretty new and a lot of my favorite producers were using it so i wanted to try it. Let's just say that using OS9 was a big difference than using windows. I loved it. I thought the operating system was so much simpler and easier to use and i could get things done a lot faster. I loved how each computer i would use would always seem to have the same connections. Firewire, usb, ethernet, and even dvd players!. Macs had them all. My experience with PC's were mostly lower end that at the time didn't have a lot of this stuff. I also loved the simplicity of the mouse. I found that with the mouse and key commands i could get a lot of the music work i was doing done very fast. OS9 still had issues just like windows did. It crashed, it was a pain sometimes but i started to prefer it over windows. Then OSX came out. I was sold. Instantly things were running faster and i didn't need drivers for any of the audio equipment. I would hook a printer up and it worked, no installing. Hook a firewire device up and it started working. I started to notice... hey this isn't crashing like OS9 would!
I bought my first mac computer in 2001. It was a powerbook g4. Man i was happy it had a CD burner and a DVD player! It was blazing fast and i would make all kinds of music on it in my room at night in Logic. I loved to never happy to put a piece of anti virus software on it. Never having to worry about getting viruses or any of the bullshit that came with windows. There was something to this unix based system that really seemed to be solid and secure. Having a very small market share also was a huge advantage. Apple was the little guy at the time, the underdog. I liked being part of that and i loved the user experience i was having.
I've watched Apple grow from the underdog to big the biggest tech company in the world. Surpassing even microsoft. It's truly amazing what steve jobs was able to do in such little time. With the ipod being the first wave and then the Iphone in 2007 and now the iPad... He's a fucking genius plain and simple. I have faith in steve Jobs and the company that's why i buy their products. I believe in the company. I believe that they are actively trying to give the user the best experience possible while at the same time making a profit. I don't see most other companies that way. Apple makes high end products and i believe you get what you pay for. For example just Look at the the design of the macbook pro's. It's incredible. The engineering is second to none. Their products are beautiful and work wonderfully. Please watch this for an example of the engineering i'm talking about...
https://www.apple.com/macbookpro/#videoWhat i really love is how all of their products integrate with one another. If you have a mac it's going to work perfectly with any other apple products. I use Air play all the time from my computer, or ipad to the apple tv. I'm wireless syncing at the point of change with mobile me. You turn a mac on and it has this great software to go stuff done with. iMovie, iphoto, itunes, and garageband all come loaded on their and these products are fantastic. They also integrate well with all other apple products. I like knowing that things are going to work with each other and i don't have to worry about extensions or drivers etc.
A BIG thing for me is stability. I DJ every weekend. I've had this computer for 2 and a half years now and it hasn't crashed ONCE. I can't have a crash while performing. YOU COUDN'T PAY ME to use anything else. I don't know if you know the artist Deadmau5 but i had a meeting with his partner one time and he told me that they did everything on PC's because that's what Deadmau5 was familiar with. I noticed once he started touring he was ONLY use macs. Then i noticed every pro DJ I saw was only using macs. This isn't some "Cool." thing. It's because the stability and security right now are top notch and people need reliable machines. Now in Deadmau5's studio he's got macs galore. The key is he knew that he had to use on on the road. With the release of Lion coming out OSX is only getting better. I'm very excited to see the finished product. Actually i love it so much I'm going to school because i would love one day to be able to work on OSX for apple, or any other Apple product really but i love the OS.
So to sum all of this up i love the stability, security, ease of use, design, integration, and stress free lifestyle that macs provide me. I would imagine a user switching for the first time might be confused by after a while it will become so easy you'll wonder how you went so long without one. This exact scenario happened to every family I have and most of my friends. --- That's not made up.
Are they perfect? No. What company or product is? But are they the best and worth the money? Well to me they most definitely are.
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