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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I remember when the breakdown used to be that PCs were best for business and gaming while Macs were better for graphic design and desktop publishing.

Then PCs got much better at graphic design and desktop publishing while Apple mostly just stayed the same and got better at marketing to hipsters.

Pretty much. There's virtually no reason to have one, since anything "high end" needed for work, art, etc. is going to be a 3rd party program that you'll have to buy for either OS, anyways. So it's basically x2-x3 the cost to have less functionality and compatibility. If not for their hipster marketing, Macs as computers would have been dead. They nearly were.

This wouldn't have been a problem if Jobs/Apple don't insist on everything about their products being "different", just because (or because they can charge people more for their brand-specific devices and attachments). So now we are stuck in a world where over 90% of the world's computers us Windows, and trying to adapt the shitty Mac OS and design to comply with this reality.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Why would color not be an option by default

Likely due to missing drivers. It could also be due to opening with Preview, and Not Adobe...which brings me to the point that no ones uses Apple based apps. Adobe, Google Maps, MS Office, Google Sheets/Doc...everything that is inherently useful that everyone knows how to use is non-Apple. And the Apple versions of Office are by design inferior.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

The USB C thing is definitely the kind of shit Apple loves to do that I can't get behind. Then they have the audacity to market it to consumers like they know what's best for us, as if having the laptop be a half centimeter thinner is a good tradeoff for buying their overpriced dongles.

Thankfully, the EU forced them to drop their lightning bolt cord nonsense and adopt USBC, so at least some form of standardization can be doable.

Dikitain posted...

Edit: And it is always funny how the people who insist beyond all reason they need a Mac for work are the ones that have to spend over half of their work hours trying to figure out how to do the stuff that everyone takes for granted on a Windows machine.

In my experience, they don't figure it out - I have to figure it out for them. And I'm not even in IT (my line of work doesn't have IT departments). They literally couldn't do their jobs if someone like me wasn't here to assist.

I asked our normal printer vendor once, when we were using my PC to do a ping test via the command prompt, to locate the correct open port, how this would be done on a Mac.
"It wouldn't" was his simple response.