Horses for courses I guess. I use my Macbook at home for photo & video processing - Canon DPP & CS4 work well for my needs and built in iMovie is great for compiling home movies. I have a work supplied HP laptop used primarily for MS Office stuff, Visio and console/terminal - again it's a good tool that does it's job well. I'm not passionate about either, at the end of the day they're just tools to get jobs done...
This year after many yeaars using Dos / Win based computers I decided to make the switch to mac. I bought a 13" Macbook Pro with 8 gigs of ram and a 750 gig hard drive. I was seduced by claims of unmatched stability and ease of use. I really really wanted to love this Mac. Unfortunately my experience with it has been the opposite of what I believed it would be.
Mountain Lion has been an unstable OS. I have had more crashes in a month than I have had in 5 years of windows. The machine has locked up totally, crashed apps randomly. The machine has been checked by a "Genius" who proclaimed it "fine" and who cannot explain its behaviour. A friend who bough the same machine as me has had it back 3 times to Apple for the same issues. Like me, he was given no explanation. I have reformatted and reinstalled Mountain Lion 2 times without improvement.
My latest nightmare is the "Upgrade" of ITunes just released which refuses to import any new music.
My experience is not unique - a search finds plenty of others who have had similar experiences. Even the latest ITunes issue I have is not unique to me.
I have read the manuals/help etc, but think I may salvage my investment by dumping OSX and installing windows. That way I will only lose the $600 I paid over and above what a similar specced Windows machine would have cost....
I bought a chinese telescope mount once....never again. I bought Apple once....never again.
Thank you for reading my rant....I feel soooo much better having got it off my chest...
MacOSX and Windows (as of Windows 2000) are fantastic OS's and have been rock solid for me.
These days, however, IMHO both Apple and Microsoft seem to be more focused on locking users (and developers) into their ecosystem than innovating and really addressing customer/user concerns.
