Windows 10

[Shadowrider]

True. I do that all the time. Can you stream from MacOS as well as iOS?

While I think MacOS may be more inherently long term stable (like with you sister & niece example), but my Windows computer is still very stable after nearly 4 years. Or three, can't remember. But I have it recorded in Excel somewhere. It just takes some discipline to regularly purge the start up programs and watch the running operations to kill off the bloat ware every once in a while.

Yes you can with AirPlay. But when I tried it, it was a pretty crappy picture. There are probably some tweaks and there has been a couple of updates on OSX and Apple TV since so it may be better now. I was streaming a video from iTunes when I tried it.

But I don't really see much of a need, you can access your pics and music library right from the Apple TV after your network is all setup. BTW that's a lot easier than with Windows too.


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[blazeitornot]

The upgrade is worth it. Google, MS and Apple all track you and give the government access with a warrant. Everyone knows that if you are really concerned about privacy you go with Linux. PC is still the master race, tho. Gaming, the number of programs available, variety of hardware and piracy still reign supreme on PC. Apple OS is a closed ecosystem that's built for tablets. A Chromebook is pretty much a modern day AOL laptop. Windows is fixing things now, too. You will get the Threshold 2 update this month and the Redstone update is next year. Syncing is easy with Windows 10 devices. Windows is buggier because MS is trying to give you an easy app experience that Apple fans like and the open hardware and gaming systems everyone else likes. If you like choices and options at a decent price then go with Windows. If you're old or don't do anything but type on forums and check Facebook than pick the other ones.

 

[tRidiot]

Here's something you don't usually do with Windows machines. Save some cash and buy used off of ebay or something. My iMac is a mid 2011 27" model and it's still going strong. I would have purchased at least 1 Windows machine guaranteed and would be close to buying a second at this point due to the fact I'd be sick of it's crappy performance or I'd be looking at a fresh install of the O/S on it. I've thought about "upgrading" but there is just no reason at all to do so right now, although the 4K displays are totally mindblowingly awesome. Macs aren't obsolete in a year like an MS box.

Funny... my CPU was Q1 2011, video card Q2 2011 - still smokes.

 

[tRidiot]

Google, MS and Apple all track you and give the government access with a warrant. Everyone knows that if you are really concerned about privacy you go with Linux.

No one is talking about the warrant access... we're talking about compiling your data and selling it commercially. Whole different ball of wax. Not even the same ballpark.

 

[NikatKimber]

Funny... my CPU was Q1 2011, video card Q2 2011 - still smokes.

Yeah, computational performance has not advanced in the last 3-4 years as much as it has in the past. Biggest changes has been in size and energy usage / heat generation, and transfer rates. SSDs and Flash storage have become much more common and reasonably priced also. That and screen resolution.

 

[blazeitornot]

No one is talking about the warrant access... we're talking about compiling your data and selling it commercially. Whole different ball of wax. Not even the same ballpark.

Google is way worse than MS at storing your data to sell ads.

 

[Shadowrider]

The upgrade is worth it. Google, MS and Apple all track you and give the government access with a warrant. Everyone knows that if you are really concerned about privacy you go with Linux. PC is still the master race, tho. Gaming, the number of programs available, variety of hardware and piracy still reign supreme on PC. Apple OS is a closed ecosystem that's built for tablets. A Chromebook is pretty much a modern day AOL laptop. Windows is fixing things now, too. You will get the Threshold 2 update this month and the Redstone update is next year. Syncing is easy with Windows 10 devices. Windows is buggier because MS is trying to give you an easy app experience that Apple fans like and the open hardware and gaming systems everyone else likes. If you like choices and options at a decent price then go with Windows. If you're old or don't do anything but type on forums and check Facebook than pick the other ones.

You need to go read up on what OSX actually is. It is not even in the same galaxy as "closed ecosystem that's built for tablets". What it really is? --->Unix! My 1st time seeing Unix was on a DEC engineering workstation that cost $30,000. My second time seeing an actual box running it was a Silicon Graphics engineering workstation that cost about the same. They were running advanced 3D solid modeling software and simultaneous 5 axis CAM programming software because at the time that's the only hardware and OS that was capable of doing the math, at least that was available for purchase outside of DOD or NASA. Mac OSX 10 is most certainly not a tablet OS. FYI, Linux is an open source version of Unix that runs on PC hardware, which by the way is what Apple is using these days. Wasn't always so, but it is now since PC hardware has advanced enough to run the real thing.

Funny... my CPU was Q1 2011, video card Q2 2011 - still smokes.

I was mainly referring to the performance of the OS. Windows just gets crappier, slower and buggier as time rolls along. Best thing to do with it is a clean install, then install the latest service pack and turn auto update completely off! If you don't let it update itself it'll run for quite awhile, as in years. MS updates fix a lot of things and screws up other things in the process. It seems to need a clean install roughly once a year, maybe a little more when you let it "maintain itself" like they trick you into doing. But with Windows 10, they don't give you a choice. It is soooooooooo nice not to have to deal with that anymore. FYI, I run Win 7 with Parallels on my Mac for a piece of software that only works in Windows. I have updating turned totally off and it has ran perfectly with clean logs since this thing was new. I also only fire it up when I need it tho.

 

[YukonGlocker]

^...yep!, thanks for responding to blazeitornot because i didn't have the energy to do it

 

[ronny]

I can't imagine why anyone who is a computer novice would be stupid enough to go from the wonderful world of 8.1 to 10. Oh, wait, that was me. If I can figure out how to do it, I'm going back. And, I hate 8.1. I've had email problems from day one. Thought going to 10 would solve that. Not.

Did a little searching and found an unbelievable number of dissatisfied customers complaints. Wish I had searched before.

 

[SoonerP226]

Windows just gets crappier, slower and buggier as time rolls along.

Apple is catching up on that front. I've seen a bunch of dog-slow MacBooks and MacBook Pros recently, and that was something you never used to see.

The interesting thing is that Windows is going the other direction--beginning with Vista, if your hardware will run it, it'll generally run the newer version of Windows faster. My work laptop is currently running 8.1 (no RSAT for 10 yet), and it runs better than it did on 7. My personal laptop is running 10, and it's running better than it did on 8/8.1.

And let's not start on iOS. Apple can't wait to make it iteratively worse...