Its a fallacy that Macs don't slow down, they slow down exactly like windows, might take a little longer. My Macbook pro slowed down loads since I bought it, 2010 model. Fitted an SSD and reinstalled everything and its all great again, just like Windows machines.

 

Either way you cant really go wrong with a good quality PC or a Mac.

Its a fallacy that Macs don't slow down, they slow down exactly like windows, might take a little longer. My Macbook pro slowed down loads since I bought it, 2010 model. Fitted an SSD and reinstalled everything and its all great again, just like Windows machines.

 

Either way you cant really go wrong with a good quality PC or a Mac.

 

Really !!!, Mac slows down exactly like a doze box . 

 

My experience with my macbook Air, along with a previous job supporting macs that were used for design work, do not support your experience, neither does my son who also has a 4 year old macbook pro

You do not say what apps / games / docs clutter up. your machine.

I can show you a Mac mini at work that runs like crap, despite having been used for less than 100 hours.

There are some very good aspects to Macs and OSX but they are not perfect.

Its a fallacy that Macs don't slow down, they slow down exactly like windows, might take a little longer. My Macbook pro slowed down loads since I bought it, 2010 model. Fitted an SSD and reinstalled everything and its all great again, just like Windows machines.

 

Either way you cant really go wrong with a good quality PC or a Mac.

If it takes longer then it doesn't slow down the same. My experience of our old G3 was that it out performed our do machines which were at least 4 years younger. Macs in my experience take a lot longer to go wrong and even when they do are generally easier to sort. But that's just my experience and others will obviously have different experiences.

I changed to Mac a few years ago now, iMac and a Mac Book Pro, I really like them compared to the Tosh iba thing I use in work, as for slowing down and which is best I feel is irrelevant.

 Ultimately it is down to personal preference, if you buy the Mac Mini you will not be disappointed I am sure, also consider the mac refurb website, there are some good savings to be had, I  a load of money when I got the Mac Book a few years ago now and it is perfect.

 

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They do slow down, eventually.   :p

 

Windows is more user friendly too, macs are really un intuitive at times, just press Command + Alt + Shift + two finger double click the mouse and clench your butt to copy a file. 

I'd go for a Mac mini, That's what I'm going to be getting next year. before joining the boys in blue I worked in ICT as support. Windows will inherently suffer registry problems and malicious software that will slow down the machine until it eventually stops working, this is true even if you don't install dodgy 3rd party software. How many times have you had Java or Adobe issues where the updates just won't work or install? My wife's laptop which is 2 1/2 years old now takes over 7 minutes just to boot up windows 7 so that you can load ie or Firefox, she has never installed anything else as she only uses it for facebook, ebay and doing word documents for her OU. I find Macs suffer these problems a lot less.

 

That suggests a more serious issue, bad blocks on the hard drive maybe? Someone who used to work in 'ICT Support', assuming it was anywhere above the hell desk, should be able to diagnose and fix fairly swiftly. With SSD prices being what they are, and some now running with 5 year warranties, I'd bung one of them, a fresh install of Windows and off you go. My 5 year old PC with an SSD boots in 11 seconds to Chrome loading my default page... 8 of those seconds are the BIOS screens/RAID controller.

They do slow down, eventually.   :p

 

Windows is more user friendly too, macs are really un intuitive at times, just press Command + Alt + Shift + two finger double click the mouse and clench your butt to copy a file. 

 

OS X is only unintuitive if you've been brought up on Windows (which the majority of people probably have). to be honest, the only down side in terms of daily use is the cost. they are nice though, as a complete product.

That suggests a more serious issue, bad blocks on the hard drive maybe? Someone who used to work in 'ICT Support', assuming it was anywhere above the hell desk, should be able to diagnose and fix fairly swiftly. With SSD prices being what they are, and some now running with 5 year warranties, I'd bung one of them, a fresh install of Windows and off you go. My 5 year old PC with an SSD boots in 11 seconds to Chrome loading my default page... 8 of those seconds are the BIOS screens/RAID controller.

Well when I worked in 'ICT Support' (I like what you did there, doubting my past but I can give you my CV if you like) solid state drives were just coming into the main stream so no council would pay for the technology when HP Compaq would do much cheaper deals on standard HDDs. And although we did had hard drives fail faily regularly (we had approx 260 users so not massive outfit but not small either) it was often just software faults that would result in us re-cloning the machine. Tbh I hate IT, always have, always will. I'm a printer by trade who also did graphic design and was forced into IT due to having the skills needed and the council wanting to get rid of the Print Room hence why I left and joined the police.

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I once met a guy who claimed to be in ICT for the Halifax (remember them?) turned out he drove around collecting backup tapes...

 

Anyway, I'm not talking about then, I'm talking about now. An SSD could be the answer to your laptop issues.

 

You are comparing the boot up times of a quite probably broken laptop to a Mac in a Mac v's PC thread, I was simply shedding some light for the listeners on why a PC may take 7mins to boot. It is certainly not 'normal' or even acceptable for a PC to take so long to boot, its broken.

I once met a guy who claimed to be in ICT for the Halifax (remember them?) turned out he drove around collecting backup tapes...

 

Anyway, I'm not talking about then, I'm talking about now. An SSD could be the answer to your laptop issues.

 

You are comparing the boot up times of a quite probably broken laptop to a Mac in a Mac v's PC thread, I was simply shedding some light for the listeners on why a PC may take 7mins to boot. It is certainly not 'normal' or even acceptable for a PC to take so long to boot, its broken.

Well if it makes you feel better, I did used to collect the weekly back up tapes from our DR suite.

I accept that but there is nothing physically wrong with the laptop, the HDD is showing no bad sectors. The desktop appears about 45 seconds after switch on however it is a further 6 minutes before ie or Crome is usable. It's all the s&£t that windows loads after boot up ie anti virus tool bars and other rubbish in the background. In my experience macs do not do this, once they are up and running they are ready to run anything you want. Maybe I am wrong to compare the two and a fresh install of the laptop will fix it but tbh I'm tired of having to do that and as I mentioned above, I hate IT and have no interest in doing anything with it. I just use my iPhone and iPad now for everything that I need. In a couple of months I'll be buying either a Mac mini or MacBook.

In my experience macs do not do this, once they are up and running they are ready to run anything you want.

 

Yeah, as long as you are going from the sleep state rather than a cold boot. Our Mid 2012 Macbook running only OSX, Chrome and Photoshop takes longer than than the Win 8.1 desktop running everything under the sun (including Serviio) from a cold boot.

Sleep state is the other way round though, Macbook is near as can be instant where desktop takes enough time to make a cup of tea...

It's not unknown for a laptop used to only access Facebook and some other sites to slow down to a crawl.


It depends what shared links are clicked on as you never know what they do, not to mention half a million unused toolbars.
A fresh windows install after 2 and a half years doesn't seem too much of a hardship.

 

 

As for your question, hardware these days is so similar, that you're as well seeing which interface you prefer. Win 8.1 is much better than 8, and if you can hold on until 10, you might get the upgrade free. Mac OSX is rather old now overall, but still works well. PC hardware will be cheaper, because there is no Apple Tax. You'd get a much faster and higher performing PC for the money a Mac mini would cost IMO.