Apple Macbook is a product from Apple which has got a huge Hype in the market as any other Apple products get. But if you compare a Apple Macbook with a Windows XP SP2 based Laptop from any good laptop provider you can find the differences.
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Which Operating System Do you Use?
- If you are a full time webmaster you would be a fast windows user and you would be using Firefox Browser + MS paint / Photoshop Applications + Ftp Software + Instant Messenger[Gtalk/Yahoo IM] and when you use a Apple Macbook the browser would be ok, cannot find a MS Paint applications, confusing ftp software & no Google talk application.
- When you want to connect to your friends/network using your Google Talk you cannot find a Google IM client in Macbook which makes me hate macbook.
- When you need Notepad for some super quick document usage in windows you just need to click on Start > Run > Notepad and the Notepad Application would run in less than a second and on the other hand in case of Macbook you will need TextEdit application which takes 2-3 seconds for sure to load up. Most Apple Fans would claim that TextEdit would run super quick but thats not the case.
- Windows offers you regular updates for their operating system which generally is in the size of 1-20Mb and are security updates which would make your laptop secured and in case of apple macbook if you check out their last update the file was around ~500Mb and additional files were totalling the amount of update to around 800Mb which would almost be a impossible update for a low speed broadband user.
- All the applications are ‘Always on the Top’ even though if you swap between different applications using ‘Apple+tab’ key combination and you need to click on the application using your mouse/touch pad to bring these specific applications on the top of all. In case of Windows you can easily swap from one application to another if you use ‘Alt+Tab’ combination and windows brings the application on the top with Active status.
- Most Wireless Internet service providers like Reliance Netconnect, BSNL Evdo, Tata Indicom Plug2Surf dont work with Apple Macbook’s but work for sure with Windows based Laptops and you need to search for tweaks to make sure you can connect your macbook with reliance. If Apple cares about their customers they should be offering installation drivers/ updates for their users which would be compatible with all these PCI/Data Cards and make sure their customers are able to connect to the wireless internet services.
- Taking a screenshot of something is really easy in Windows based laptops because you are offered with a Print-Screen button using which you can grab a copy of your Active desktop and paste it in any image applications like photoshop, MS Paint etc but in case of Apple Macbook you will need to use these key combinations for capturing a desktop image and this would need you to memorize all these key combinations.
- Macbook shows a Widget from ‘AccuWeather.com’ which is offered for showing users with the weather of their locality but when you enter any Indian based city name it shows the weather of some other Latin/German country but not specifically when you have asked for and if they are not able to show the weather reports of any Indian Based cities it would be recommended not to atleast show this widget in active status.
- 50% of Preinstalled Macbook Applications are generally related to the web ie all the Applications with a Prefix of ‘i’ like iGarage, iChat, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, iCal etc and the reason for this is that whenever you try to use any of these like for playing a music file or for playing a movie file you will be asked to connect to the internet to update and get it in working status, If macbook is really advanced then why dont they offer applications which work with any file formats and we dont need any codec softwares for playing specific format files.
- When you run iDVD application the first error message you get is ‘Your Macintosh does not have a supported SuperDrive. Please note that while you will be able to work with the iDVD application you cannot Burn a DVD disc’ Guess what when you buy a Macbook you would expect the preinstalled softwares to be compatible with the available hardware and if you dont have a specific hardware why would you expect a software which cannot be used?
- Macbook claimed to be the most secured operating system was recently hacked and this makes it come under the windows security level category. There are numerous virus found on Macbook. if Macbook OSX is really that secure why in the world do we have these many antivirus software applications?
- If there was no Windows Operating system, there would have been no Mac OSX because if you compare in depth its just a clone of Windows operating system, tried to show in different colour variations, little bit of spicy web applications added and great hype created for making a demand in the market. Over and above Apple even airs some commercials which compares both Windows and MacOSX operating systems , another cheap publicity stunt. Its the Windows Operating system which was the main reason why the whole world has advanced today and everyone knows about a computer on the other hand if Apple would have launched their products first the technology would have been back by 10 years because when there are not many users of something there is not sharing of knowledge and advancement in technology.
Overall in my view Apple Sucks and Windows Rocks!
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:55 am
1. Going to desktop is quick in apple…so you can keep shortcuts there…
2. There are dashboard softwares which u can use for scribbling like notepad…
3. One can watch all active windows on one mouse shake … and click to open…
4. And taking a screenshot is very quick in macbook… u can take screenshot of a part of the screen or even whole.. and save it on clipboard or save the jpg on the desktop…
Just few things i can point our in favour of Apple…
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Amit, are you on crack? Where on earth do you get your info? Microsoft did not create windows before apple created a GUI interface that was called Mac OS. And for that matter, Apple wasn’t first either. But they did beat microsoft to the game by a matter of years. Apple has always innovated first, and the behemoth called microsoft has always followed Apples lead.
Your entire argument is absolutely retarded. But for that matter, maybe you are.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
jeez, think you could rehash a 15 year old argument a little more sophomorically? nothing new in this post, been hearing the same things from so-called pundits for years *rolls eyes*
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Your Macbook must be several years old. Every current Macbook out has a built in superdrive. Its not Apples fault that you are a moron.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
@ Aaron : I have removed the last point because i felt i didnt have much information about it specifically. Was just referred by a friend to watch the movie ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’ to know more specifically about that point.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Incompetent, know-nothing morons always post stupid, meaningless attacks on Macs when they want more hits on their unpopular, rarely-visited sites.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Fanboi, I bow to you. (Gotta run — time to get back to my Mac.)
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Clearly, MacBook is not for you. You seem to be well versed in the Window’s way of doing things and it would hard for you to learn new techniques and shortcuts that have been in vogue on the Mac for ages. But other hardcore Windows users such as Anandlal Shinpei of Anandtech.com have found it quite refreshing to use a Mac and have switched.
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
LOL - I had to stop reading your post about 1/2 way
through. Just so Juvenile. I use both windows and
OSX. In order to write this article you must be
on the Indian Equivalent of Crack.
RC
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Then why were you stupid enough to buy a Macbook?
Did you know Macbooks run Windbloz?
Get a life.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I don’t know who you are but so many of your comments are simply wrong. I won’t even go over them because the whole article is so full of untruths. You obviously know nothing about Macs. Not even Bill Gates would have written something as ridiculous as your article. Go back to school or get a different job.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
It is easy to see that you have never really used a Mac. Until you really are an expert you should keep your comments in the wiring closet somewhere. Having been a windows sys admin for years I know what you are going through. It was only after some very kind lady purchased a Mac for me and I didn’t have the heart to tell her how I really felt that I began to use it and now I would not run anything else. I have run vista on a Dell and it is nothing like running Mac OS X on a Macintosh. The Macintosh is simply a better machine. Better thought out and easier to use. If I need windows for testing I simply fire it up under VM ware. I find that I have fewer problems running Windows on a Mac than running it native on a Dell BTW. It is very interesting. Apple really has great hardware. You need to be a little more open minded.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It’s quite obvious you don’t know much about the Macbook Pro, or Mac’s. As for Google Talk, it’s easy to use on a Mac as you can read here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/23/how-to-set-up-google-talk-on-your-mac/
Did you not know that Messenger runs on a Mac too. Messenger has it’s own Mac version. As for Microsoft Office and Messenger, well you can download them from Microsoft’s Mac site here:
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/08/23/how-to-set-up-google-talk-on-your-mac/
Oh, by the way, not only can you run all of Window programs, even Vista, on a Macbook, but you can run them faster than any Windows laptop. Macbook Pro’s are the fastest ‘Vista’ laptops in the world as you can see here:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/irony/macbook-pro-is-the-fastest-windows-vista-notebook-317060.php
Further, please note: YOU DON”T NEED THE INTERNET to use iMovie, iPhoto, etc. Only iChat needs the internet, just like Messenger does! You ever try using Microsoft Messenger or Google Talk without a internet connection? Try it and tell me how well they work without one?
Taking screenshots with a Mac is very, very easy. If you can’t remember such an easy thing - you must have Alzheimer’s or something? As for taking screenshots with a Mac, there are lots of little programs that can be had for free that does more than Windows can. Windows has nothing on the Mac.
Please not also: Firefox runs on the Mac too, just as it does for Windows; or didn’t you know that?
I could go on an on, but what’s the point? You are obviously writing from a very bias point of view and I must beg the question: Did you ever really even sit down and play with a Mac? Did you ever talk to someone with Mac experience, or do you just rely on emotion and hear say?
Windows is a joke; it sucks and that is why the Mac’s market share is rising while Windows is slowly going in the opposite direction. Not only are millions and millions of Window users switching to the Mac, but a lot of the top Window experts are doing the same as you can see here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010759&intsrc=hm_ts_head
So, please, don’t give your GOOD blog a BAD reputation by saying things that are opposite of the truth:
Windows Sucks; Mac’s Rock!
PS. Your blog was highlighted on one of the Mac’s biggest websites: http://macsurfer.com
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
ROTFL!!!
Nice job pointing out the hilariousness of clueless windows users trying a new system. Oh wait, you’re not being sarcastic?
(if you’re a “webmaster” you’re sure as hell not using MS Paint - hilarious!)
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
wow. your absurdly banal insipid moronic verbiage just convinced me to buy a macbook! wheeeeee
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I always like to read why PC users slam the Mac, where they are right and where they are not. You missed the mark all over. Your info is wrong. Text edit on my machine (MacBook Pro 2.33 Ghz, NOT the newsest of fastest Mac) launches in less than 1 sec. Apple Tabbing brings the Application desired to the fore front with out any mouse click needed, OS updates are big (but timely-how long did that Ultra necessary first Vista upgrade take) but other system related updates can be 1-80 megs. You should actually try some of the apps before making statements. iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes may have an “I” prefix, but there primary purpose is not web based.
And as far as idvd and not having a burner, Apple got heat for not allowing all machines to run iDVD. So, at the public demand, Apple included it and if you didn’t have the money to buy a burner, you could still lay out the project and burn it on another machine.
Basically, all of your statements are false. This is not a flame, just answering factually.
BTW, there are NO Mac virus’. Just the good old Word virus that does not effect the Mac in any way, originating from, you guessed it, PCs.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
This is a joke right? I mean seriously I gave up even thinking about correcting al the errors and I am a user of both OS’s. There some cool things you can do with Windows but none of them are listed here. Oh, you’re a “web developer” and you really use MS Paint? LOL…yeah…ok. Carry on!
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Talk about comparing apples and oranges. First of all, you fucking moron, a Macbook is a laptop. Windows is an operating systems. (For those in the know, I’m playing fast and loose with the term “operating system”.)
I would respond point by point, but that would be like wrestling with a pig - you both get dirty, but the pig enjoys it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
You are one seriously illiterate, ill-informed dude.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
While you are certainly entitled to your opinion based on your particular priorities, I do take issue with #12.
I am at a loss to understand how the Mac OS could possibly be a “clone” of MS Windows, seeing as the Mac was released several years before Windows. In fact Microsoft licensed certain elements of the Mac’s look and feel in order to produce Windows. Look it up. Apple even sued Microsoft for copying too much of the Mac interface. For the most part, Microsoft has been trying to follow Apple’s lead ever since.
As for Windows being the reason everyone knows about computers, that may be true. But popularity is not necessarily a measure of quality. McDonald’s restaurants are very popular but are clearly junk food. Windows became popular not because it was particularly good, but because Microsoft had already captured the business market by licensing Windows’ precursor, DOS to IBM (and later to the makers of IBM PC compatibles).
While you may feel that Windows has advanced computing over the years, it has also inhibited innovation. Because of Microsoft’s stranglehold on the market, they have less incentive to aggressively innovate. The inertia of their installed base also holds them back. Real innovations languish until Microsoft chooses to assimilate them. How many years did Microsoft work on Vista? Is Vista that much better than XP? Even many Windows enthusiasts have mixed opinions about that.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Honestly, your flawed view of this is appalling.
First of all, way to go on having a mature title and basis for an article. It comes off sounding like you’re a ten year old. Not to mention the very poor grammar throughout the article.
That aside, I’m honestly amazed that you’ve been able to become a webmaster with your obvious severe lack of knowledge on how applications function.
None of your arguments are justified, and dually so because you’ve never even used the system before. And it’s OS X, not MacBook. The name of the OS, is NOT the same as the name of the computer. Again, obvious severe lack of knowledge here.
With these types of articles, the best way to write is objectively. Which you no doubt cannot do. So congratulations, on writing a really crappy tech article.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
An interesting and flawed list. I’ll try and see if I can bring to light some of the flaws in your logic, point by point. It seems to me that you really haven’t used Mac OS X much, and are afraid to actually explore and try something new. Also keep in mind that the Macbook can run Windows 2 ways… natively (it can boot up in Windows), or in a virtual machine (Windows running in a window in OS X). This ability makes my job as a programmer easier since I can have one laptop running multiple OSes. On to the slaughter!
1. If you’re a full-time webmaster you would not be using MS Paint
Firefox is available for OS X, as are many other browsers. There are many great FTP clients, PLUS UNIX, so you can use the command line like real webmasters do. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
2. For GoogleTalk, you can use the GoogleTalk Gadget, or since GoogleTalk uses the Jabber protocol, you can use iChat, or Adium, or Psi, or Pidgin. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
3. TextEdit can be put in the Dock, and it starts up in less than a second on my Macbook. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
4. Microsoft has numerous security updates that are small in size individually, but when you have to install 10-20 of them at a time, it all adds up. Apple has fewer security updates because it’s more secure in the first place. And Apple’s updates are actual OS updates, not just security updates, so of course they’ll be a bit bigger. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
5. I don’t know if you’ve ever used Mac OS X or a Macbook, but switching between applications is the same in OS X as it is in Windows. The windows of the application you switch to will appear on top. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
6. Apple does as much as any other company by providing the APIs for the ISPs to write their drivers for their cards. I’m sorry if you live in an area that requires special modems and are having problems. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
7. Not all Windows apps allow for the PrtScrn button function, whereas the screen capture is a function of the OS in OS X, so it will always work. You can also specify the area of your screen in OS X vs. Windows which only allows you either the entire screen, or the active window. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
8. Don’t know what you’re using, but it works for me when I type in India cities.
9. Don’t know what file formats you’re talking about, but all of the iLife apps have worked fine for me, without having to be online. It sounds like you’re complaining about Quicktime having to find codecs for video playback, which it does do if you try and play a DivX encoded file. And the iLife apps are not all generally related to the web, but they do make posting your stuff on the web easier. You can use iPhoto to catalog your photos without ever posting any of them on the web. You can use iTunes without going online. It sounds like you’ve never used these applications. Oh, and the Macbook can run Windows.
10. There are plenty of times where Windows machines have apps installed that either don’t work, or require hardware that isn’t available. You can use iDVD without a DVD burner, and that’s a problem? I think it’s great that Apple set up the app to be usable even without a burner, allowing anyone to create a DVD project.
11. Numerous viruses found on Macbook? The number of OS X viruses pales in comparison to the number of Windows viruses. And very clever, the link you have goes to a list of ALL security/privacy apps on Versiontracker. This link lists less than 20 antivirus files/apps for OS X. The same site lists over 200 for Windows.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I just realized, this guy probably is 8 or 10 years old, and is a “webmaster” of some crap site that that he posts info on games on or whatever. either way, this was a fun read if you get a laugh out of stupidity.
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
It looks like this guy simply turned on his MacBook and expected it to know what he wanted it to do. He apparently did zero research. Google Talk is no further than iChat…. my 17-year old son uses Google Talk via iChat all the time.
But most likely this guy doesn’t actually own a MacBook and is simply tossing out FUD based on things he heard but didn’t research. The real tell is the virus bit… I’ve yet to put any anti-virus software on any Mac in our studio. Why? Because I’ve never met or heard of a person’s machine actually being infected by such a virus or trojan. Only laboratory “proof of concept” crap.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Geez, another one. If I wrote down every time a clueless Windows users essentially said “I only know how to use XXX application, and since XXX doesn’t run on Mac, I can’t do that and Mac is worthless” I’d have to cut down a forest for the paper.
If you can only comprehend Windows, Windows software, and the Windows way of doing things - stay on Windows and stop bitching that you can’t put gas in your Diesel car.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Mac came out in 1984. The first usable Windows was 3.1 which came out in 1991, but it didn’t become truly Mac - like until Windows 95, a full 11 years later. How you can call Mac a clone of Windows shows your ignorance of history.
I do all my google talk in iChat. No need for any other software.
There have never been any viruses for Mac OS X in its 8 year history. The one’s you mention have all been in the lab, and were simply theoretical.
The guy who hacked the MacBook said himself it was far more secure than Windows.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Hmmmmmm. You must be one of those guys we in the U.S. now call for most of our tech support these days.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Everything Yuta said is right on.
The author of this article knows little about Windows, let alone OS X. There are real, substantive advantages to using Windows over OS X for certain uses (and vice versa), and you managed to miss all of them. If multimedia creation, robustness, ease of use, Unix, and having a logical and rationally organized GUI mean anything to you, then nothing beats OS X.
And yeah, the Mac OS was around for years before Windows joined the bandwagon (just like everything else MS does).
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
1. iChat communicates with Google talk. Graphic Converter is the tool of choice for most Mac web developers and FireFox runs great on OS X. You are an idiot!
2. See item 1, you redundant idiot.
3. Cmd Space TE return and less than 1 second for text edit. Big freaking idiot.
4. Weekly 20mb updates with massive service packs vs semi-monthly larger updates is just not important. BTW the last update was 88MB to go from 10.5.3 to 10.5.4. the 488 MB file was only to go from 10.5.0 to 10.5.4. But facts don’t normally matter to idiots!
5. CMD tab brings applications to the top and active, just like windows.
6. Bull $#!^!!!! I have used a number of usb Broadband modems and you plug them in and they just work. I’ve had more problem with them under windows.
7. Can’t remember shift-cmd-3? Run Grab! Can’t find that use grab under the services menu.
8. huh?
9. None of these “need” the internet and are all fully functional without it. Try to play an h.264 file in windows or a Divx file. Nobody ships every codec, get over it.
10. iDVD runs without an internal SuperDrive because you can plug in an external.
11. There are no viruses. There have been 4 Trojans found in the past 3 years and none have yet been wide spread.
12. Read your history. Apple shipped first. Many technologies are Mac first. And Apple has a much better track record of working with the open source community than Microsoft. Apple embraces standards and only rolls their own when no standards exist.
Please! go buy a Dell and leave us all alone.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Trolling for hits by writing stupid stuff.
How original
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
You crack me up. Please go here: http://www.folklore.org
Whoever takes a made for movie drama “Pirates of Silicon Valley” as something factual has got to be an idiot. Please go there and learn how it all started. Even the Xerox urban legend is explained by the guys who were really there.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
I just checked several Indian cities on the Weather widget. After a validation pause a long list of options appeared, including those in Indian specifically. If you want to select an American or European option instead, it’s your choice.
I just checked TextEdit. It took a whole 4 seconds before I could start typing, but really, that isn’t a deal-breaker. I use Bean normally anyway.
Oh, by the way, if you absolutely must have some particular Windows-only application, you can install and run Windows on a Mac. Or you might even be able to run it using Crossover, which doesn’t actually need Windows, with all its security and instability problems.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:36 pm
This blog entry is nothing more than link bait, folks. Amit is into search engine optimization (SEO) as stated in his About Me page @ http://www.amitbhawani.com/about/ — and this blog entry a great way to get a whole bunch of people riled up and linking to his site, which increases his search engine rankings.
MacMod.com has a decent rebuttal to the first few points from this article: http://www.macmod.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1465&Itemid=239
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Everyone has torn this ‘webmaster’s’ thesis to shreds which is brilliant! This ‘webmaster’ should save some money and shut down this poor excuse of a blog. He can then attend night school to attend ‘English as a Second Language’ course. If he wants to blog using his native tongue, at least we won’t see it on MacSurfer.
One thing to add to what doug petrosky says about iDVD. You can make a disk image of your DVD, so you don’t have to actually burn a DVD use iDVD. Might make sending your movies of your holiday to friends and family a bit difficult if you don’t have either an external or internal drive ;-).
I wonder what Amit would say if he knew that two of us modeled the slow-poke nuclear reactor at school on my Quadra 840av using Mathematica? Probably would blow his ‘webmaster’s’ mind.
But what no one has commented on is the tag line: “Sharing the truth one thread at a time”. WTF? Based on this drivel? I think we know where he gets his ‘truth’ - from the poppy fields of Afghanistan.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Amit
I think at the least you owe all those poor Windows PC users an apology. You’ve just condemned them to a life of misery because you have no clue.
On second thought, I think the average person with an enquiring mind will soon learn you are full of buffalo doodah.
I can’t think of another way you could have got it so wrong… everything, I mean EVERYTHING you wrote is so hopelessly wrong it beggers belief.
I will accept your apology if you are big enough to admit it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
One more note for the webmaster: Sir Tim Berners Lee, the man who invented the web, uses a MacBook. In fact, he invented the web using Steve Job’s NeXT OS, which was the ancestor of Mac OS X. Windows has borrowed plenty not just from Mac, but NeXT also. And continues to take ideas from Mac OS X (aka Vista). But it is a bad clone. It comes in very different flavours. Such as 32-bit and 64-bit. Or home edition and Business edition, etc. Leopard is just one version for everyone, and handles 64-bit far better than MS could ever implement.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Unless you’re the webmaster of somethingawful.com, I think you lost all credibility when you said that you are a “full time webmaster and fast Windows user who uses MS PAINT.”
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
@Jason
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!