Switching from Mac to PC

[a_c_skinner]

"I am concerned about Apple switching to ARM and at some point I will likely be forced to upgrade"

Me too. I'm not using Windows much at the moment but if Macs change to ARM and I have to re-purchase programs I'm likely to repurchase for Windows. The Apple way is a cycle of upgrading that you are tied in to for both hardware and software.

 

[Mystery member]

I am concerned about Apple switching to ARM and at some point I will likely be forced to upgrade

My personal conclusion dated few years back is that every 2 OS updates, I would need to repurchase the same software all over again, just to use the same functions on a new OS version.

Going ARM and repurchasing of same software is not a good move for myself. So my current apple computers would be the last, after they breakdown it would be windows all the way.

Windows is not difficult to use at all. Many touting Mac is better still use Win95 as reference. So go figure.

Nothing wrong with Win95.

If the ARM Macs are like iPads on steroids, that might be a winner, but I hope they finally get file management sorted.

 

[silentstorm]

I am concerned about Apple switching to ARM and at some point I will likely be forced to upgrade

My personal conclusion dated few years back is that every 2 OS updates, I would need to repurchase the same software all over again, just to use the same functions on a new OS version.

Going ARM and repurchasing of same software is not a good move for myself. So my current apple computers would be the last, after they breakdown it would be windows all the way.

Windows is not difficult to use at all. Many touting Mac is better still use Win95 as reference. So go figure.

Nothing wrong with Win95.

If the ARM Macs are like iPads on steroids, that might be a winner, but I hope they finally get file management sorted.

They are still talking about crashes and drivers issues of win95.

Even if ARM macs are fast, the repurchase of the same software still puts me off after every 2 years.

 

[CAcreeks]

"I am concerned about Apple switching to ARM and at some point I will likely be forced to upgrade"

Me too. I'm not using Windows much at the moment but if Macs change to ARM and I have to re-purchase programs I'm likely to repurchase for Windows.

What software? Now that most everything is subscription based, it doesn't matter.

Also, except for Lightroom and Office 365 (both subscriptions) you don't really need any extra software on OS X.

 

[col4bin]

I use Office, LR, Photoshop, CaptureOne and Banktivity. Even though LR and PS are subscription based, there are installed locally and will likely need to be rewritten.

 

[tkbslc]

The new AMD laptop processors beat Intel for half the price.

Look at the Asus Zephyrus line. Could get one with twice as powerful GPU, faster CPU, 40GB of RAM and 2TB SSD for $1000 less than that Dell. Has 100% sRGB and Pantone pre-calibration.

https://xoticpc.com/products/asus-r...Ah5WBi1fEIFgJbEe3hXojw6HIWmqJGE0aAl8YEALw_wcB

(only real downside of the Zephyrus is that is has no webcam, which can matter for business.)

 

[calson]

I have been using Wintel computers since 1982 and Mac computers since 1984 and currently have 4 Lenovo Windows laptops and two Windows tower workstations (Lenovo and HP) and my latest addition, a Mac Pro 16" laptop that cost $2799 plus tax.

I dislike the Apple engineering that eliminates ports and requires adapters for common I/O but I also appreciate the superiority of the modern UNIX based Apple operatings as compared to Windows OS that at its core is built on top of the limiting architecture of NT3.51 released in 1995. A USB thumbdrive can crash my Windows 7 and Windows 10 computers.

If buying a new computer, ones from Dell do not make the list. I have dealt too much with their lack of customer service for even Fortune 100 IT departments to use one for my work. They are also the company that has by far the fewest employees working in the United States and have been aggressively offshoring jobs for more than a decade. One cannot bemoan the job market and then go out and buy a Dell product.

 

[silentstorm]

I use Office, LR, Photoshop, CaptureOne and Banktivity. Even though LR and PS are subscription based, there are installed locally and will likely need to be rewritten.

I have Paragon, Adobe suite CS6, Sony XDCam, Final Cut Studio 3 and Capture1 since Snow Leopard. Only QT 7 pro lasted me a good number of years.

Yep, time to move on to windows.

 

[silentstorm]

I use Office, LR, Photoshop, CaptureOne and Banktivity. Even though LR and PS are subscription based, there are installed locally and will likely need to be rewritten.

I have Paragon, Adobe suite CS6, Sony XDCam, Final Cut Studio 3 and Capture1 since Snow Leopard. Only QT 7 pro lasted me a good number of years.

Yep, time to move on to windows.

Forgot to add that my Office 2011 is running on High Sierra with bugs, and MS is no longer supporting it. My newer version of Office 2016 (perpetual license) is on windows now. Windows is more backward friendly, thus saving me money in the long run.

High Sierra will be the last OS I'm using on my existing macs, till they breakdown.

 

[Tom_N]

Your Macbook is recent. If it hasn't got an SSD that would speed it up, but I imagine it has.

All Mac laptops with Retina displays have SSDs.

A 15", 2018 rMBP has an "8.0 GT/s NVMe PCIe x4" interface to its SSD. I don't know if it uses the M.2 form factor, but the speed of the SSD is unlikely to be the problem.

 

[Tom_N]

I use Office, LR, Photoshop, CaptureOne and Banktivity. Even though LR and PS are subscription based, there are installed locally and will likely need to be rewritten.

"Rewritten" in the sense of "downloading new binaries", not in the sense of "Microsoft and Adobe having to rewrite the source code from scratch." Downloading new binaries is a lot easier than rewriting source code.

You might not even need to download new binaries. The Intel versions of Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard were able to run many PowerPC-only binaries, using "Rosetta". Apple will be shipping a "Rosetta 2" that lets you run Intel-only binaries on ARM-based Macs.

Not that you're likely to need it for the latest Microsoft or Adobe products. Some of those already have ARM versions (that just aren't shipping yet).