Why are Macs preferred over PCs?

[ClobberXD]

They are more expensive than the Sun, and a PC of the same cost (if built sensibly...) can beat the shit of Apple computers. Yet people prefer Macs for specific reasons - what are the reasons, and why so?

[MattBoxer]

Just now, Anand_Geforce said:

They are more expensive than the Sun, and a PC of the same cost (if built sensibly...) can beat the shit of Apple computers. Yet people prefer Macs for specific reasons - what are the reasons, and why so?

Because people are sometimes cultured by them and think anything else is relatively crap as the do not listen to other people's opinions. Mind you the do have pretty good design and build quality that is really the only good point about them.

[LordLeewee]

3 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

They are more expensive than the Sun, and a PC of the same cost (if built sensibly...) can beat the shit of Apple computers. Yet people prefer Macs for specific reasons - what are the reasons, and why so?

theyre better at some things. beyond that, some people value aesthetics higher than performance. ive had an 11" macbook air and it was a great product, tiny and light with decent ish hardware and a fantastic battery life. was hard to beat in a windows machine

[ClobberXD]

Just now, Mattboxer2000 said:

Because people are sometimes cultured by them and think anything else is relatively crap as the do not listen to other people's opinions. Mind you the do have pretty good design and build quality that is really the only good point about them.

Yeah... They do sing praises about "build quality", but don't X99 mobos, LGA 2011-v3 Workstation CPUs, Quadro/Firepro GPUs, Corsair AX-series PSU, etc. have a build quality a billion times better?! (I'm confused... )

[refinedskillz]

Macs are simple and easy to use, theres no bullsh*t that you have to deal with when building a computer, just buy one, plug in the peripherals and go.

[iiNNeX]

Aesthetics mainly and the fact that they are different. The OS, the look of the machine, the feel. It sort of feels a bit... "premium" if I can call it that. Or special might be the right word.

 

I've used a 5k PC and hasn't felt as special as a 1.5k iMac, even though it beat the sh*t out of it on every task. But if you had to chose then yes PC anyday.

[ClobberXD]

1 minute ago, LordLeewee said:

theyre better at some things. beyond that, some people value aesthetics higher than performance. ive had an 11" macbook air and it was a great product, tiny and light with decent ish hardware and a fantastic battery life. was hard to beat in a windows machine

Aesthetics, more than permanently thermal-throttling?!

[LordLeewee]

Just now, Anand_Geforce said:

Aesthetics, more than permanently thermal-throttling?!

pretty much exactly yes, you wont get thermal throttling using office, safari, imessage, itunes and mail. 

[VAkena]

9 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

They are more expensive than the Sun, and a PC of the same cost (if built sensibly...) can beat the shit of Apple computers. Yet people prefer Macs for specific reasons - what are the reasons, and why so?

Most of my friends that have Macs perfer them for their reliability and stability, but envy the large amounts of games on the PC.

[ShadowCaptain]

8 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

They are more expensive than the Sun, and a PC of the same cost (if built sensibly...) can beat the shit of Apple computers. Yet people prefer Macs for specific reasons - what are the reasons, and why so?

OSX is a great OS

The 13 and 15" retina macbooks are very well priced, very good performing machines with like best in class battery life, amazing displays, aluminium chassis, the best glass trackpad in the world, insanely fast pci-e SSDs and are just all round fantastic machines, and are reasonably priced too

 

Apple support is also great

iMacs are expensive but still very good machines, with decent performance and the aestheics are wort money to people

[ClobberXD]

1 minute ago, refinedskillz said:

Macs are simple and easy to use, theres no bullsh*t that you have to deal with when building a computer, just buy one, plug in the peripherals and go.

True! But what about value for money? As I mentioned earlier, for the price of a supposedly lower-end Mac, you can have all of the following:

• i7 6700K
• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula
• Intel 750-Series 480GB NVMe PCIe SSD
• NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founder's Edition

[refinedskillz]

Just now, Anand_Geforce said:

True! But what about value for money? As I mentioned earlier, for the price of a supposedly lower-end Mac, you can have all of the following:

• i7 6700K
• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula
• Intel 750-Series 480GB NVMe PCIe SSD
• NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founder's Edition

I know, but the point is that people dont think about that.

[ClobberXD]

3 minutes ago, AlexTheRose said:

They get the user’s work done elegantly and efficiently

Can you give me an example? Thanks.

[LordLeewee]

1 minute ago, Anand_Geforce said:

True! But what about value for money? As I mentioned earlier, for the price of a supposedly lower-end Mac, you can have all of the following:

• i7 6700K
• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula
• Intel 750-Series 480GB NVMe PCIe SSD
• NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founder's Edition

which is great if your only priority is gaming performance. 

[VAkena]

1 minute ago, Anand_Geforce said:

True! But what about value for money? As I mentioned earlier, for the price of a supposedly lower-end Mac, you can have all of the following:

• i7 6700K
• ASUS Maximus VIII Formula
• Intel 750-Series 480GB NVMe PCIe SSD
• NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founder's Edition

Yeah but still, that's very subjective. Some people just prefer the simplicity that comes with Macs. True they could have something better, more powerful for the same price but don't choose to becuase support for Macs are great and either way don't require much maintenance.

[LordLeewee]

my macbook with an old i5, hd4000 igpu and 4gb ram performed brilliantly. i never sat there thinking "i wish this had a 6700k and a 1080" 

[ThinkWithPortals]

8 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

Aesthetics, more than permanently thermal-throttling?!

The vast majority of people who buy and use Macs don't know what thermal throttling even is.

[ClobberXD]

19 minutes ago, LordLeewee said:

which is great if your only priority is gaming performance. 

Exactly! So please tell me what the Mac is used for...

[ClobberXD]

17 minutes ago, AlexTheRose said:

better integration and tools for creative professionals and enthusiasts,

Like?

[handymanshandle]

Technically Macs are PC's and arguably their stuff is priced fairly competitively. Though for the price of the 15" MacBook Pro with dGPU, I could buy something from Asus with like a GTX 965 for a little less and would have a lot more power behind it than a MBP but that does come at the cost of battery life and portability.

 

For some people it's a similar reason they buy an iPhone. Hell it might be even the reason they bought an iPhone.

[refinedskillz]

I remember that there was a video on a 10,000$ mac vs a 10,000$ PC, the PC absolutley smashed it in all benchmarks. AND had better gaming performance. This was focused on video editing tho.

[ShadowCaptain]

33 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

Exactly! So please tell me what the Mac is used for...

Everything else

 

Office work

Design

Photo/Video editing

Browsing

 

my brothers 2008 15" pro is still great for editing photos, and he does light CAD work for Jaguar on it when not using his workstation stuff

 

You have to understand something

 

 

Price to performance doesn't matter to some users, sometimes its not even a consideration of the machine,

 

I mean if somebody was like "ok I get better batter life and it looks nicer but twice the price.. cool i will buy it"

 

[BLoCkZ420]

I think it's hard to generalize - many people may or may not prefer a Mac over a PC because of different reasons. Programmers may prefer a Unix-Based system such as MacOS or just code on Windows. Editors may prefer the horsepower PCs offer over Macs or use Macs because stuff like FinalCut is extremely well optimized for the devices they run on. Gaming performance is out of the question - but as someone that has used a Mac I can say that while I appreciated the clean and simplistic asthetics of MacOS I kinda missed the 'complicated' Windows stuff. But I dunno. Maybe I'm just so used to Windows that adapting to another OS just isn't something I want to do ^^

 

[GarnetDevil]

48 minutes ago, Anand_Geforce said:

Exactly! So please tell me what the Mac is used for...

Some audio interface with Thunderbort connectivity only supports Mac OS X (e.g Focusrite Red 4Pre)

People who use them will buy a Mac

[vorticalbox]

1 hour ago, refinedskillz said:

Macs are simple and easy to use, theres no bullsh*t that you have to deal with when building a computer, just buy one, plug in the peripherals and go.

when building a computer that you're planning to run mac on is more "bullshit" to deal with due to hardware compatibility with mac os.

 

windows doesn't have this problem. Also you can plug peripherals inti any computer be it pc, mac ir a linux box and go.