Originally Posted by
Portabella
I'm going to confound you. I have no passion for one or the other. As a designer/developer by day my profession use a number of different systems including Windows, Linux and OSX machines.
I have developed a preference for Mac/iOS systems for my personal use simply because they are more convenient. Everything works well together and the Windows market doesn't offer anything that compares currently in terms of stability, reliability, hardware variety for entertainment and the multitude of Tablet to Systems apps that integrate with my devices and entertainment systems. As a result, I stopped buying PCs for myself, but my husband still prefers his Alienware notebook machine because all he does with his computer is Game. I do far, far more than that with mine. My husband also paid a much higher price tag than I paid for my 2011 MacBook Pro brand new. It was closer in price after I upgraded it to a OCZ Vertex 4 series SSD and upgraded the RAM to 16GB, while he still sports 8GB of RAM and a spinning HD.
My argument simply points out that the hardware is the same pricetag no matter what operating system runs on it. If you hate Macs, go out and buy yourself a similarly built Windows or Linux based system, but at the end of the day you're going to pay the same price for the hardware. You will however, pay much, much more for your operating system and software on a Windows OS system than you ever will for a Linux or Mac OS based system. OS Upgrades for Linux are free, and for MacOS they are $20, and software is generally a fraction of the price when not free, with a lot more variety, with the sole exception of games.
The gaming industry is the only software solution that has limited variety in these operating system environments. I personally believe that this is because historically, Windows has been the dominating Operating System and was for at least two decades. The reality is that this user landscape is rapidly and dramatically changing to one where many individuals for personal use are choosing systems with operating systems other than windows, and in many cases, they aren't buying personal computers at all anymore... they're buying tablets. One quick peek at statistics of the trends of all internet browsing over the past two years points this out elegantly. I can also say that from my experience in the retail segment of computer and tablet sales in recent years that this is indeed very much the trend moving forward and to ignore it spells out disaster for software development companies.
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