|
Hi Leon, Another Apple household here; for many years my workhorse at home has been a mac of one kind or another, while at work a PC.
A lot of my professional time has been spent designing and building large computer systems and at home the last thing I want to do is fiddle with another one at home, I just want one that works reliably like an appliance - turn it on and do what I want with a minimum of fuss.
Yes there is a premium but in my view it is easily worth it to have something that does work like an appliance. The tight, seamless integration with an iPhone, AppleTV and a backup drive with Time Machine all make it well worth having, and the synchronisation of accounts across multiple macs also works a lot more reliably than the Windows equivalents in the long run. Sure its not flawless - nothing is, these days, but sitting down to use my mac is usually a pleasure, rarely a chore. The analogy with"Life is too short to look through bad glass" is quite valid.
At work some of my colleagues are inveterate tinkerers - yet the Linux and windows tyros mostly seem to have a collection of ageing PC's at home in various states of disrepair and yet none that are actually fully functional.
Lastly, on a few occasions I have given macs to people who were really struggling to keep a PC working; in each case they have loved their mac for its dependability, and never looked back.
|