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  1. tl;dr, macOS is great for media production and web development due to the wide selection of amazing Mac only apps. macOS and to a larger extent all Apple devices are fantastic for accessibility. macOS sucks for gaming. I use macOS as my main OS but I still use Windows and am very familiar with it. Sorry for the long essay, the words kept coming! To address OP's points... I can take this two ways. Apple providing support for macOS. I'd assume the majority of the people reading this forum are tech people. We understand software and hardware support is the only thing we really need. For the less tech inclined, macOS is incredibly intuitive but, if you need help with it, Apple has many free Today at Apple classes, running a day, every day, at all of their stores. From Apple: Availability of apps. There are thousands of Mac only apps, plenty I use every day and can't live without. And a lot of them allow me to customize my Mac to work the way I want it to. There are more games on macOS than you might think, albeit not a not and not many good ones. If you already have a PC, Steam in home Streaming is fantastic. Nvidia's GeForce Now and other cloud based gaming platforms are also fantastic provided your internet is solid. Bootcamp works okay but, if you need to cut out all lag and latency and need 240 hertz, then just build a PC and throw Windows on it. Microsoft created DirectX for a reason. Piracy is bad as a whole but it's there, in spades. That's all imma say. I have yet to have a Mac with bad performance. The thing people seem to forget is Apple has complete control over software and hardware. Yes, my iPhone only has 4GB of ram, because it only needs 4. More ram does not equal more better. Apple's software is so well optimized for the hardware they choose, it can fly. From experience, a legit Mac and a hackintosh with similar specs will preform about the same. True however, macOS does support AMD graphics. Adobe's support of CUDA over the years has been a mess. They added support for Apple's Metal graphics engine, which kicks butt! FCPX can take full advantage of an AMD GPU and blast Premiere out of the water. There may be other apps that can use CUDA, but I'm not aware of them. As for RTX, as I'm typing this (to the best of my knowledge) the games still aren't here so... Design is subjective. Apple updated the iPhones design to "flatten all the things" in 2013 (not 2011) and didn't bring the design to macOS until the next year with Yosemite. There is also plenty of customization. Sure the basic stuff, show/hide dock and menu bar, move/resize dock, change minimize anamation, etc. But the we enter the world of third party apps. Hate the dock but love the Windows taskbar? uBar. Menu bar have too many icons? Vanilla. Want to quickly see system stats? iStats. Don't like how spotlight looks/functions? Try LaunchBar or Alfred. The list goes on and on and on... I've been using macOS as my main OS for the past 10+ years. Growing up, I used Windows. My school had a few Mac's but most of the computers where Windows. For some reason I liked the Mac a bit more and the younger, less informed me thought that Mac's don't get viruses. So I eventually saved enough money to buy a MacBook. Fast forward to now and I am heavily invested into the Apple ecosystem. I run a small media production business, so editing videos/photos and web development are daily tasks for me. I started editing video in Adobe Premiere CS5 and thought it was a fantastic program. My video production class in high school used Premiere as well. When Adobe came out with Creative Cloud, I jumped at it. After a few updates, I started to get frustrated with editing. I clearly remember editing a short video for school, a project that should have taken 3 hour. It ended up taking over 8 hours. I removed Premiere and switched over to Final Cut Pro X. FCPX is an editor you either love or hate. If you love it, you will fly through editing on just about any Mac made by Apple. (Ignoring Hackintosh but if it's built with a recent Intel CPU with QuickSync, it will be just as fast) Apple has complete control over hardware and software which allows FCPX to preform better than Premiere ever could. Just for some perspective, I also do motion graphic work in After Effects. AE doesn't even seem to notice my iMac Pro's GPU, will only use 2 cores, and maybe 6 GB of ram. It's painful. I remade the same 4k 60fps project in Apple Motion (moving text and a particle system, all with motion blur) and it played back in near real-time, no ram preview. Some people say that FCPX isn't a valid reason for someone to choose macOS because it's a joke of an editor. I implore you to look at Taran's list of Adobe Bugs... Even using keyboards as macros like Taren does. RIM a quick test, an app, with a gui, let's me detect when I press "A" on one keyboard vs "A" on another and act on the input. It is extremely powerful and doesn't require any knowledge of coding or special hardware. Features like that are great for power users but even better for individuals with disabilities. macOS is lightyears ahead of Windows in terms of accessibility features. VoiceOver, Apple's implementation of a screen reader, completely changes the way your device works so individuals with visual impairments can still use it. Windows does have a screen reader however, VoiceOver works across all Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac), has a wide selection of high quality voices, and has so many options it's almost overwhelming. And that's just one feature. Braille support, on screen keyboard, type to Siri, switch control. The list goes on. The accessibility features are so extensive, someone who can't use their arms and legs and uses a wheelchair, can still edit a video in Final Cut. There are plenty of Mac only apps that I use every day that I can't live without. CodeKit, Sketch, and Yoink to name a few. Even Apple's default Mail.app and Safari. Yes, I use Safari not Google Chrome for mainly two reasons. 1, performance and 2, security and privacy, which I guess brings me to my next point. More recently, I have become more conscious about my personal data. Facebook and Google continue to misuse data while Apple is very adamant about not wanting anything to do with my personal data. The amount of telemetry data Windows sends back to Microsoft is alarming. macOS sends back some info, I'm sure, but it's not near the amount that Windows does, and it's also anonymized. I am by no means a gamer. But if I where serious about gaming, I'd go and build myself a nice PC, with Windows. There isn't a perfect OS or tool for every job, just the tool that works best for you. And for what I do every day, macOS takes the cake. That said, I don't hate Windows. I do use it, quite often. I've found Windows Server to be fantastic for running services such as Plex. It's easier to manage than macOS and is built for server type stuff. macOS server has become a joke. Just because I mainly use Mac, does not mean I hate don' know anything about Windows.
  2. IMO if you're doing creative work, go with the iMac. That 5k screen is perfect for anything from graphic design to video editing. But, if you're gaming, go with the custom PC. You'll have far better performance with the 1080ti, as it's designed for gaming. If you do light creative work but mostly game, the PC will still be the better choice. Plus you can upgrade and expand it easily in the future. VS the iMac, you're sorta stuck with what you bought. (You can upgrade the 2017 model's CPU and RAM but you'd void your warrantee)
  3. I would use it to broadcast events from my church and school. Much cheaper than buying a fancy video switcher.
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  5. Congratulations Linus and the entire Linus Media Group Team! Keep up the good work.
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