I'd like to see Linus Review OS X......

[lukeptba]

I'm new to this site and I've done what you suggested me to do, Thanks

Everyone was new once, it's fine.

[Guest]

Most of them use Premier Pro and After Effects. Yes you get this in Windows and that's what my question is??

You do realise Adobes creative suites aimed for Mac... All there advertisement and demos are usually Mac based, but that would be because the have a discrete and little less known partnership.

I like both OS's, have owned both, but atm, opt for windows because of the game support and general nerdout factor with customising my rig. But both have there purpose, needs and fan base. I just don't get the hate both sides have for one another. If little johnny wants a Mac, so be it, but little johnny doesn't need to be a dick about his shiny Mac, and so on.

[RedRound2]

on a windows machine it's really easy to find your way around the file system and you can get really deep into system setting within a second and from using IOS devices I know how Apple hates it when people try to do things like that

 

Mac is not like iOS. See the problem is most people think OS X is like closed and restricted like iOS, but it's not. You can a lot of customizations and at the end of the day, its Mac who is more stable and fine than windows. I have a hackintosh and trust me other than the initial installation problems I had 0 problems with it. In fact it runs better than how windows does

[RedRound2]

You do realise Adobes creative suites aimed for Mac... All there advertisement and demos are usually Mac based, but that would be because the have a discrete and little less known partnership.

I like both OS's, have owned both, but atm, opt for windows because of the game support and general nerdout factor with customising my rig. But both have there purpose, needs and fan base. I just don't get the hate both sides have for one another. If little johnny wants a Mac, so be it, but little johnny doesn't need to be a dick about his shiny Mac, and so on.

 

What the hell did I say, did you even read what I wrote in the first place

[Guest]

What the hell did I say, did you even read what I wrote in the first place

Wow dude, chill yo beans! I see you and someone else talking about the creative suite like its a PC only thing, when in actual fact it's not and a damn sight better than FCP.

[RedRound2]

People you chose as examples are into tech, but not into pc hardware, every review i saw so far pc's beat macs price/performance period.

 

But I don't think Windows beats Mac in being more stable, error free and reliable. Not once in 3 years I had to shutdown a Mac due to some errors or updates or etc. And also Mac has so much more robust features than what windows has. The only advantage I see in windows is games and its like 'open to anyone'

[ZetZet]

But I don't think Windows beats Mac in being more stable, error free and reliable. Not once in 3 years I had to shutdown a Mac due to some errors or updates or etc. And also Mac has so much more robust features than what windows has. The only advantage I see in windows is games and its like 'open to anyone'

I said price/performance.

[RedRound2]

I said price/performance.

What I'm saying is that's the only thing, since Windows is 'open to all'

[Priller]

Ok, so most of the YouTubers out there use Mac as their day to day rig, Jonathan from TLDtoday, Lew from UnboxTherapy, Marques from MKBHD, Austin from Austin Evans channel and so on, except for........Linus.

 

No matter how much you hate Apple, there's got to be reason why so many people use OS X for content creation. 

 

I like Linus's reviews are a lot convincing and truthful. Not that other Youtubers are lying, but I always search for reviews done by the LinusTechTips channel or NCIXcom channel before I buy something so that I could get his opinion

 

So what I want to see Linus do is get a Mac, or build a Hackintosh with a help of TonyMacX86 since you must be having so many parts lying around collecting dust and use it for 1 whole month and post a video regularly expressing your thoughts on it without of course considering the price or whatsoever.

 

So why don't you guys (other members) like this post and bring it to the top so that Mr.TechTips himself could see this proposal.

 

UPDATE: I get that Linus does reviews of stuff thats only applicable to windows, but what I want is an honest opinion from him. The only reason I got really interested into computer hardware is because of him and I would like to hear his thoughts on it

 

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[Guest]

In fairness RedRound2 lives in Dubai, where macs grow on trees ;p

[RedRound2]

In fairness RedRound2 lives in Dubai, where macs grow on trees ;p

No, it doesn't. Its much cheaper in North America

[Jeroen1322]

[RedRound2]

 

 

I don't know what you're trying to say, but all I'm asking is Linus to do a review on OS X.

[Ertman]

I don't see a point in it.

There is a lot of problems with Linus (or anyone) doing an objective review when switch to a new computing platform.

[Fullmetal1212]

Not meaning to start any wars. But I used Mac after leaning ubuntu. And really interms of finding stuff in the file system is not that much different. I have loved both my hackintoshes way more than windows. But I love my linux machines more than windows too sadly I am forced to use windows to run all my hardware

[ygohome]

For Linus or his team to give a good review of OS X, I think they would have to dedicate at least a month to using it.

 

They can record their first impressions, of course.  

 

But to give a good review of any operating system (especially one that they've not used alot, if ever at all), they should try using it daily first.

 

 

*my view... main advantage of OS X is having a POSIX terminal window.  Very convenient when often ssh to other linux boxes.  Same can be done in Windows if you install other tools though.

 

** I voted "Yes".  Would be interesting for sure!

[JustTooDank]

He doesn't do a lot of software based videos (other than benchmarks), and the Mac hardware expansion options are almost non-existent. There aren't 50 different CPU/Mobo choices for Mac. The PSU you get is the PSU you get. And so on.

[TechTheWorld]

Thats like a very experienced food critic reviewing Mcdonalds.

[minimalist]

It's always funny to see people freak out over the mention of anything apple.  So much insecurity and sensitivity.

[Ertman]

For Linus or his team to give a good review of OS X, I think they would have to dedicate at least a month to using it.

 

They can record their first impressions, of course.  

 

But to give a good review of any operating system (especially one that they've not used alot, if ever at all), they should try using it daily first.

...

 

I figure it would have to be a minimum of 3 months and probably about 6 months as a daily driver to really get the workflow change kinks worked out, to the point where faults found with the workflow setup is that of the Operating System and its supporting programs. and not that of the user or what issues setup they have created their workflow. Sure a month could be used but half the problem in attempting to evaluate OSX is changing a persons particular habits and getting them accustomed to something different, which would take awhile.

 

Obviously and should go without saying, in the interest of content creation, anything that requires them to use windows (Video Card testing, gameplay stuff etc...) would be done with windows.

[xox]

I have to say it's pretty terrible. Better than Linux, but not as good as Windows.

 

People use it for content creation because of Apple's own software like Final Cut Pro.

[Darren]

I find it very funny that OSX user will talk about Windows as if it was Linux, as if it was required to be good with computers to handle it. Windows is quite user friendly, if you have trouble using with it then you probably aren't very good with computers, and most likely shouldn't take in the name of a whole tech community.

 

I don't see anyone comparing to Windows to Linux, especially when OS X has a Unix Core. OS X is essentially a pretty, very usable distribution of Linux with the exception of some closed-licenses components which is still better than Windows since it's entirely closed-source.

 

I have to say it's pretty terrible. Better than Linux, but not as good as Windows.

 

People use it for content creation because of Apple's own software like Final Cut Pro.

 

A lot of people use it. I've seen plenty of power-users (software engineers, network engineers etc) with OS X as their choice. Screw Microsoft's licensing.

 

Let's take an example. Google, arguably the most influential technology / software company in the world, all use OS X. In fact, you have to convince your superiors if you want to use Windows, which isn't done, because Windows is inferior. Here's a talk on it.

[notenoughtv]

It would be entertaining to watch him try and switch to OSX for a couple of weeks

[RelentlessAF]

You haven't used one. I own a MacBook and I'm loving it. And because of that I went through all the trouble of getting hackintosh and it's totally worth it. You should try it for a long time to see the benefits of using Mac over Windows. I do have a licesed copy of 8.1 but I always boot into OS X because its much more intuitive and user friendly

*Sigh* Most people don't seem to get it, it's personal preference, I've tried a Mac many times before, for the whole 9 yards, media, 3D modeling, gaming, etc. I found it extremely unintuitive and literally all media porgrams on it have a Windows counterpart that I always like better. You can use Sony Vegas for video editing all of the Adobe products many audio production programs. Basically Macs are for peopls who like Macs PC's are for people who like PCS there is no superiority and no reason anyone should use a Mac unless they want to themselves.

[RelentlessAF]

But I don't think Windows beats Mac in being more stable, error free and reliable. Not once in 3 years I had to shutdown a Mac due to some errors or updates or etc. And also Mac has so much more robust features than what windows has. The only advantage I see in windows is games and its like 'open to anyone'

Errors are user initiated, an error free environment is created by you. If you do not know what you're doing you will recieve errors on either platform. They are both well built, On Windows I've had zero problems in the past 14 years. In my college courses I took the Macs crashed like no tomorrow. It's all about the user.