Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by OdysseyF22:
...The major point against Macs, in my book, is the price. Macs are very expensive for no good reason - you can buy a PC that performs just as well (if not faster/better) for half the cost... |
I found the opposite to be true. Macs come with pre-installed software, useful software at that. Any current Mac, for my purposes, is ready to go to work, out of the box, without requiring any immediate investment. Backups are done automatically, in the background, as part of the OS (Time Machine). I can access and work on files that haven't been on my computers for months, in seconds.
There are seven Macs in the house, and if I were to spend $2600 on a new Mac, it certainly wouldn't be "mid-level". |
Simply out of curiosity, what software (besides a web browser and the backup feature) do they come with that's so useful? |
Mail, Safari, iChat, iCal, Address Book, Dictionary, TextEdit, Calculator, Preview, Image Capture, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, iTunes, GarageBand to name a few.
Then there are the apps built into the OS like Spaces, Dashboard and Time Machine. If you like you can add iWork which gives you three more useful apps for the price of one: Keynote (a more elegant version of what Windows/Vista users know as Powerpoint), Numbers and Pages.
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