Having a legacy USB port proved to be invaluable, especially in those early days as I was using a thumb drive to move files from the old machine to the new one. I also loved having a built-in micro SD card reader, even if I would have preferred a full-sized SD card slot. But still, better than the dearth of connectivity options on the MacBook Pro. Apple really set the standard in the modern capacitive touchscreen world when the original iPhone came out.
Considering how good the touchscreen on the iPad and later iPad Pro got, I assumed a touch-display on a MacBook Pro was just around the corner. After spending about 18 months with the HP Spectre x, I can tell you unequivocally that having a touchscreen on a laptop is great.
It just makes multitasking that much easier. A touchscreen is also great for working with images in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. When I needed to do some shading or make a precise selection, it was far easier to do that with the HP Tilt Pen a powered stylus than it was with the trackpad or even a mouse.
No, the pen-on-screen system is not as accurate as a Wacom tablet, but for a minimal, travel-friendly setup, it works very well. As a user, there are zero disadvantages to a touchscreen. Not only do most companies make and update their macOS software first hello, GoPro , but the Mac versions by and large work better than their Windows counterparts.
Some programs you can't even get for Windows. Carbon Copy Cloner, one of the most important programs in my arsenal, just plain doesn't exist for Windows. There are, and literally all of them suck quite thoroughly.
Even when apps do exist for both platforms, the Windows versions are far buggier. Even basic things like two-finger scrolling through a timeline in Adobe Premiere are completely borked. I hear random chimes all the time.
How do you do that, you ask? Why, just follow these elaborate steps through the baffling Registry Editor and enter some code into a sea of gobbledygook. By contrast, the same task in macOS involves four straightforward steps. The one arena where Windows has the software advantage is gaming. Much of that is owed to the modular nature of PCs, where you can slap a super-powered graphics processor into your chassis, but the net result is there are far fewer games for Apple computers.
As if to emphasize this, while demand for virtual reality content is steadily growing, Steam just announced that it will be discontinuing SteamVR support for macOS. Womp womp. Sweet Vishnu, why are drive letters still a thing that exist in Windows? Of all the ideas Microsoft has lifted from Apple over the years, ditching drive letters should have been among the first.
You can use the Disk Management app to manually assign a letter to each of your storage devices, but Windows sometimes switches the letters back anyway. Throw drive letters into a sea of sulfuric lava. Apple has found a way. Linux has found a way.
Generally, Apple bundles several small updates into one big pack so you can run them all at once. With a Windows machine, like my Spectre x, different components are made by different companies, and each has its own update schedule. The Microsoft and HP updates are usually fine. The website scans your PC and tells you what updates you need to download. It frequently tells me that I need to install an update that I have already installed. One of the defining features of Apple is its tight control over the supply chain.
They carefully look into every aspect of the supply chain right from design to retail. Apple in its annual filing has stated that although most essential components to the business are available from multiple sour ces, a number of components are being currently obtained from a single source.
Their selected materials from limited sources makes the products of Apple truly one of a kind. If users are required to use the Windows OS platform for certain situations, they can easily do that by installing the operating system on the Mac devices.
Virtualizing Windows on Mac not only takes care of the software requirements, it comes with plenty of benefits such as picture-in-picture computing where users can open Windows as if it were another desktop application and comfortably work on both the operating systems simultaneously by adjusting the screen to accommodate both the platforms.
Mac comes pre-loaded with a wide range of handy apps that would be useful for an enterprise to ensure a smooth work environment. This dynamic set of built-in apps will boost the efficiency of enterprise users. With apps like Keynote, presentations can be cre ated on the go.
The Calendar app provides a convenient platform to manage and keep track of the day-to-day tasks. As more enterprises are moving on to issue mac devices to their employees, users should have an idea on how to get the best use out of their machines to increase productivity.
Quick navigation options such as keyboard shortcuts and Magic Mouse saves time and helps in the speedy and effective implementation of daily tasks. The dock and spotlight feature further helps to enhance productivity as it can quickly locate and pull out the applications and documents the users need.
One of the highlighting features of macOS is its Mission Control tool. It provides users with a quick overview of all the applications open on their Mac device. Mission Control can also be used to switch between applications or move the applications to different virtual windows.
This tool can also be used to transfer migrating preferences, networks and printers. MacOS has a set of terminal commands to enable the compression of files, thus offering several benefits such as freeing up disk space, decreasing the email attachment size, and requiring less storage capacity. Mac is better than Windows as it provides several time saving and performance enhancing tips to its enterprise users to make the most out of their work day.
Instead of navigating to different websites that can compromise the security of the system, Mac users can just open up the Terminal and type in the whois command.
This command can reveal the administrative and technical information of a web domain. In addition to enhancing employee productivity, macOS is well known for its high editing capabilities.
The average Mac user is less likely to get exposed to security threats as there are fewer malware programs targeting macOS. MacOS just provides its users with th at extra blanket of security of being exposed to fewer attacks.
Apple has released 17 versions of macOS so far, the latest being macOS It also leaves Apple remarkably vulnerable when innovations go wrong — the ill-fated Cube placed the company in deep trouble, for example, whereas international giants such as HP and Sony can tinker with experimental form factors such as smart displays and UMPCs, without worrying that commercial failure could potentially cripple the company.
Apple is incredibly stingy with its products. No one else is allowed to touch them or even open the chassis without Apple getting defensive.
HPs, for example, let you upgrade the graphics card and still covers your device under warranty just not the third-party parts. If you like freedom and peace-of-mind PC is the way to go. Mac owners will have to wait until well after the release for a new version of Office, and even then it will be largely devoid of the well-received Ribbon interface that Microsoft first introduced into the PC version.
So, you have a Mac, an iPhone, Airpods, and an iPad that can talk to one another seamlessly? Did your dog chew up your power cord? Perhaps it just gave out. Head right on over to Amazon and order a new one. Come again? At the time of writing, users can get Windows 10 absolutely free.
But, if you do want OEM software head over to any software website and pick your poison. Freedom to choose your price-point, freedom to take your hardware to a repair shop, freedom to choose your parts.
PC has cornered the market here. If your best friend works on computers for a living and yours breaks down, take it to them to have a quick repair or hardware replacement. The only way to get Mac parts is to take it to a Mac authorized repair center. When it comes to the workplace, Windows is the predominant OS by a mile. Switch platforms, however, and you can kiss all that goodbye: experienced Mac OS systems engineers are like gold dust.
However, to suggest, as it does, that your PC is at risk from more than , viruses, is ludicrous. One of the more common complaints from new-to-Mac users is that everything is backward. Your minimize web page button is on the left of the window rather than the right. Your keyboard shortcuts are wonky, to say the least. Need to copy and paste something?
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