10 Ways Mac OS is just BETTER!

MacOS is the most useful OS for developers.

Just go to any successful tech startup and compare the number of PC users to Mac users.

Huge apple fan boy here. Started my trip in the IT world when I visited a shop selling Macs for the first time(took me years to buy one though lol, my father took me away and got me a spectrum instead). Can’t say though that I find them better the last decade. MacOS of course is more advanced but less secure and the quality of hardware is for sure worse. The iPod was a huge turning point and made them a consumer brand with all the plus and the minus.

It's random. I coded an app for a radio station in Milwaukee with a few coders from Barclays Bank, everyone had PC.

Question: Everyone says that developing on a Mac is better than PC. Give me an example of something that you can do with a Mac that you can't do on a PC?

Open up a real UNIX terminal that responds to control c for beginners. Terminal in Windows thinks control c is copy.

-Real Terminal
-Real Unix OS - No bolting on Microsofts Ubuntu shit
-HomeBrew lets you install native git and almost any other UNIX built package locally eg: imagemagick, youtube-dl, tensorflow, etc
-Run multiple virtual machines (MacOS/Windows/Any Flavour of UNIX)
-Native iPhone/iPad testing for mobile app development be it XCode or React Native or Flutter
-Homestead virtual machines for Laravel development
-VirtualBox virtual machines for multiple development environments
-Real local Python without having to install Anaconda
-Native local tools for machine learning development without having to bolt things on

I could go on. If you're developing code on a PC then you're doing it the hard way.

Would never let go of my trusty thinkpads with Linux. Still run Windows 10 on the workstation for compiling/render jobs, but the stuff he said about 'best for devs' is BS. It depend on the work you do and what language/framework.

Use whatever you love most, but dont make up those bullshit reasons why its better

I've been using Macs since 1984 in my special effects company in the UK. I found them to be intuitively easy to use even though initially there was very little software available.
In the past 35 years i have had exactly one hack that was easily eradicated and a handful of crashes. Although i have had to use PCs for a lot of my CNC software i still much prefer Apple computers !

Gloat !

I thought we left all this behind us years ago.

90% of the stuff I do happens in a browser nowadays, Adobe CC is identical for both and the only thing where I am not sure is MS Office (but I am switching more and more to Google Docs).

And that you need a Mac to develop for iOS I don't see as an advantage for Mac OS.

I probably could work the same way on Mac OS (and did in the past) but why should I waste my money on overpriced hardware that breaks a lot more often?

What exactly breaks more often? My 5 year old iMac has never had an issue. I fight with my Dell on a monthly basis and the support is an absolute joke.

I'd go 100% Mac if my adaptability systems would work better.

I bought my first Mac back in 2008 and fell completely in love. "It just works" is a huge understatement. OS/X is so much better than Windows. Windows 10 is the best MS OS ever, but it still sucks compared to Mac OS.

I finally just sold my old 2 iMac 27" computers from 2009, both for $700 each. (8GB Ram, 1TB HD, Original wireless Mac Keyboard and Mouse). Can you imagine 10 year old computers still working reliably, and still supported, and still getting that much for them? I was blown away.

That being said though, I am thinking about getting an Intel NUC next, just to play with a few projects on....

Over priced old tech...That apples..

Running custom PC and using an MSI laptop (both i7's / windows 10 / nvidia cards) with no issues. I'm curious about Apple. I might just have to spring for one in the future and see for myself.

I'm open minded to new ideas.

Yeah.... but that's because Start Ups and their founders are also very cool...

Exactly, especially since it also depend on which IDE is used for doing regular dev work.

My 2011 year PC laptop is still working fine.

i cunt 4d mac, but i like p00

Well put it this way - I arrived back from the USA after being deported with Zero Equipment in 07. I immediately bought what was at the time, the most top end Sony Vaio laptop available... This was good at first, but after a year or so, I had to get a second cheaper HP laptop, just to share the workload as I couldn't do everything I wanted at the same time on the VAIO. I needed a second PC for different tasks...

By late 09, I was looking at getting a further laptop, but decided to bite the bullet and get an iMac. It was the entry level one (Not the most expensive) and I thought, Id give this a go alongside my laptops.

One year in and the laptops are gathering dust - Everything I need to do is being done consecutively on the iMac, and its flawless. It never even breaks a sweat... The iMac gets left on 24/7 and has been like that for over 10 flawless years. Its running the latest but 1 operating system - ie, still being supported and updated over TEN YEARS LATER !



Like I say, its never given me a days issue - Never stopped working even once, and my VAIO wont even update to Win 10 cause its too old, and the HP is kaput long ago...

Well actually the VIAO is kaput too cause it wont even charge anymore, but my point is that for that little bit extra cash upfront, and paying more for possibly older tech... It was packaged together by apple to 'simply work' and work it simply has - Day in Day out, for over ten years... So Im very pleased with it as an allround work horse, and won't hesitate to get another when the time arrives

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I have a Powerbook Pro whos screen went dead after 2+ years and Apple wanted $1000 to fix it. I bought a new Toshiba laptop with that money instead.

My ex biz partner did regular repairs on his fleet of Apple products (i remember for example him having to exchange an iMac screen).

My colleague just had his battery in his Macbook replaced because it was starting to expand and blow up the case (just a few weeks ago - it's a known issue).

I recently had to return a used iPhone i bought for testing because of a defect, my current one doesn't let me type in the pin code on every other start and i have to force a reboot.

And it's not that I am per se against Apple - hence I find these discussions pointless - it is just my personal experience as someone who worked with and owned both, did PC sales and repairs for a living for a while and worked for 2.5 years in a company that had only Apple computers (and even servers).

Using Mac OS or Windows (or Linux) is a matter of personal taste and Apple hardware is massively overpriced - considered it is normal PC parts nowadays anyways. And not any less prone to failure.

But I do admire how Apple fans can look beyond all that with this Gollum twinkle in their eyes when looking at an Apple product.