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good luck.
I run 3 windows machines and a half dozen macs. had macs since 1984, windows machines since 2004.
I find windows to be much more irritating- it constantly updates itself without telling me, gets blue screen, sometimes takes 20 minutes to boot up, and is much more complicated to control.
I have windows machines because some software I need is just not available for macs. No decent payroll, certainly no simple cheap ones. NO bitmap to vector programs that will output in sewing machine languages. Certain other categories, mostly pretty math or engineering heavy, simply dont exist for macs.
ALL computers are basically consumables- they do not last forever.
If you do anything online, upgrades in software, for either type, makes your machines obsolete in 3 to 6 years most of the time, regardless of maker. Laptop batteries always die, eventually. Replacement batteries are usually cheap knockoffs, once apple stops buying 5 million a year, the factories quit making them as nice as apple demands.
So replacing batteries is usually not as good as when they were new.
If you need to run fancier software- Adobe illustrator, lightbox or photoshop, high speed film editing, GAMING, (whatever the heck that is these days- I am more a sodoku guy), or things like CAD or other machine interface software, updates are just necessary.
I actually have run windows on mac hardware for years, and find the apple hardware much more reliable as a windows platform- go figure.
If you are really into computers, and insist on customizing everything, you can make windows machines do what you want, but its complicated.
If you want simple, intuitive instructions, commands in plain english, you generally are more comfortable with macs.
These days, with AI buying up all the chips, the price gap for actual apples to apples mac vs windows machines is pretty narrow. Unless you erector set build the whole desktop windows machine yourself from individual components.
I run 3 windows machines and a half dozen macs. had macs since 1984, windows machines since 2004.
I find windows to be much more irritating- it constantly updates itself without telling me, gets blue screen, sometimes takes 20 minutes to boot up, and is much more complicated to control.
I have windows machines because some software I need is just not available for macs. No decent payroll, certainly no simple cheap ones. NO bitmap to vector programs that will output in sewing machine languages. Certain other categories, mostly pretty math or engineering heavy, simply dont exist for macs.
ALL computers are basically consumables- they do not last forever.
If you do anything online, upgrades in software, for either type, makes your machines obsolete in 3 to 6 years most of the time, regardless of maker. Laptop batteries always die, eventually. Replacement batteries are usually cheap knockoffs, once apple stops buying 5 million a year, the factories quit making them as nice as apple demands.
So replacing batteries is usually not as good as when they were new.
If you need to run fancier software- Adobe illustrator, lightbox or photoshop, high speed film editing, GAMING, (whatever the heck that is these days- I am more a sodoku guy), or things like CAD or other machine interface software, updates are just necessary.
I actually have run windows on mac hardware for years, and find the apple hardware much more reliable as a windows platform- go figure.
If you are really into computers, and insist on customizing everything, you can make windows machines do what you want, but its complicated.
If you want simple, intuitive instructions, commands in plain english, you generally are more comfortable with macs.
These days, with AI buying up all the chips, the price gap for actual apples to apples mac vs windows machines is pretty narrow. Unless you erector set build the whole desktop windows machine yourself from individual components.
