Every single friend I have (Well, excluding one) abhors Macintosh computers. They all give the same exact arguments: "I can't play games on them", "They're too expensive", and last but not least, "Why don't you just get a PC? Everybody uses one, why not you?" That last one might not be an argument, but it's something I'm tired of hearing.
I'm going to assess all of my friend's complaints about Macs in this post. It might be kind of rant-y, so if you don't like that sorta thing...Check out my friend's posts instead, @natorious is his handle.
Most commonly: "I can't play games on them."
Well, I can understand this argument: There's not a lot of software support when it comes to games, and there's not really an easy way around that. You could install Windows on a separate partition of the hard drive with Boot Camp just for gaming, but that's effort, and people don't really want to put the effort they use defending their opinions into accomplishing anything.
Secondly, "They cost too much."
Get a used one. Problem solved. I've got a used MacBook that serves me perfectly well, and only cost $200, when I originally got it. 4 gigs of RAM, a dual-core 2.13 GHz processor, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics card, which I've been able to do video editing, some light gaming (TF2 runs at about 30 FPS at the lowest graphics), and some recording if I'm away from home on it.
Third: "I like to upgrade my computer, and be able to fix it if something breaks."
You can extremely easily, on a MacBook, upgrade and change the RAM, hard drive, and CD-drive, if it's one of the models that has one, and for a laptop, that's really all you'd ever want or need to change. On a Mac Pro (At least, the pre-Tim Cook ones) you can swap literally everything out, just like a standard desktop.
And last but not least, "They're underpowered. I don't wanna pay that much money to get a computer with those specs."
Again, Get a used one. Chances are, that any one you'll find used will already have its specs maxed out by its previous owner, like the MacBook I had before my current one was.
But whatever. If you guys have any things you don't like about Macs, put it in the comments. I love a friendly debate, and this post is about the most "aggressive" I would ever get during such a debate.
Well, until next post, fellow Steemers.
Love Apple, love my mac!
I became a Mac user about a year and a half ago after abhorring them myself (for many of the same reasons), but once I sat down and actually used one for a bit (about 3 hours) I fell completely in love. As to the way I usually deal with the exact same complaints:
"I can't play games on them." - Maybe not as well or as many as on a PC, but this just isn't a PC and it wasn't intended for gaming but as for "can't", you're just plain wrong. The PC vs Mac gaming discussion is the same thing as XBox vs PlayStation, franchises choose certain platforms to release their product on.
"They cost too much." - I feel they cost as much as a computer should cost. The only reason they are more expensive than most PCs is because they never got in bed with advertisers which helped to subsidize the price a user has to pay for their machine. Besides, when you account for things like doing audio recording and how many times easier it is on a Mac vs a Windows machine, the price becomes more than justified. Besides, when you compare things like Dell's XPS lineup and the new Surface Laptop you'd be paying basically the same price anyway.
"I like to upgrade my computer, and be able to fix it if something breaks." - This one I agree on, I have no argument in Mac's favor on this point.
"They're underpowered. I don't wanna pay that much money to get a computer with those specs." - What? How are they underpowered? Compared to what? Show me any 2011-era Windows PC that performs anywhere near as well as my 2011 Air does.
Yes, there is a premium price to pay for using an Apple product, but ultimate user freedom aside, I feel they are more than worth the price.
Definitely, I think you summed up the gaming thing better than I did. But that last argument I usually get from people who work in the video editing profession, comparing the pure specs of a machine instead of its true benchmarking performance. But like I said, it's very easy to replace components on a Mac. At least, most of them-- You still can't really swap out the motherboard or CPU, but I guess those are things that are seldom changed anyways.
Writing this from a Macbook Air from 2012, the battery and fan needs to be replaced. Fan is what I'm most worried about atm. But hell this thing survived everything!