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Originally Posted by wellfleation
Jeesh, what everyone misses is its the superior OS that blows Windows and everything else out of the water. Everyone who compares and contrasts OSs says so a majority of the time. OSX is simply the best OS and the hardware and its superior design is just an added bonus. I'd gladly pay more just for OSX alone.
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This is why nobody respects your opinion. You didn't even come close to answering his question. He asked you to objectively tell him why Mac's are better, and the only answer you could come up with was "OSX IS TEH BESTEST!!!". You forgot to mention
why it is better. You are the typical Mac-user (sadly), you are so wrapped up in defending a fucking brand name, while you don't even know why you should be doing so. So, since you are so inept, I'll try and answer the mans question.
Dr. Shindig, it's not a case of better vs worse, its about what you want in a computer. While it is a little difficult for me to compare from personal experiences, since the processor/memory in my Mac is alot more powerful than my previous Dell Inspiron (500m I think), OSX does seem to run significantly smoother than most Windows machines I have used.
When I first made the switch (from Windows to Mac), I thought it was going to be tedious and frustrating. I was wrong, while I hate using the word 'intuitive', it really is the best adjective to describe it. With Windows, this is not the case.
For people who don't want to spend their days removing ad-ware and spy-ware from their hard drives, OSX also holds a significant edge. I realize that advanced users know how to avoid such things, but a vast majority of Windows users do at one point get some malicious shit installed on their computer without their knowledge. I have yet to encounter one questionable application or task running on my computer in the 9 or 10 months of use.
There are many other smaller things which help make OSX better than Windows, and now with the Intel chip, more and more games are getting released cross-platform (Starcraft 2 and Spore are some examples that I'm interested in picking up/downloading). Overall, I just find it an easier computer to use, manage, and maintain. I play games on my PS3 - so that isn't even an issue for me. While it may take a little longer to find applications (such as for FTP uploading, which I guarantee there is a Mac app that rivals IE's uploader), they are usually free and if not, easily crack-able.
Anyways, I hope this started to answer your question. Obviously you have experience using Macs so I don't know how useful this is, but I felt like contributing my experiences to this thread. As for something that Mac can do that a PC can't, I don't think there is anything. But I challenge you to find anything a PC can do that I couldn't do on my Mac (which doesn't involve gaming).