I’ve had 4-5 Dell laptops, and family have had sony and toshiba’s and not one of them woke up from sleep in less than a couple minutes. The 10-15 minute number is from a windows machine of a co worker that has been in use for several years and I’m sure it is suffering from “bit rot”. Windows machines tend to slow down over time from orphaned files and other reasons. I’ve only had my Mac for about a year so not an equal comparison but so far I have not had any slowdown. I’m told that Macs dont suffer “Bit rot” as much as PC’s. A reinstall of the OS on Windows every year is almost a must in my experience.

Next Article I hope will be before the end of the weekend. Life got pretty busy last week. i’ll see if I can get a couple done over the weekend.

Korey – when is the fourth article coming?

Photoshop: in its last few versions, it’s quicker under 64-bit versions of Windows than under OS X. I don’t know if it means it’s really superior under OS X. It might still be better integrated with OS X than with Windows. I’m curious as to which platform nowadays is the best for photoshop.

Finally, I understand all of this mostly revolves about personal taste. And mine definitely grovels towards Apple. User friendliness, and lots of engine under the hood for people with more advanced needs.

With that said, I bought my new macbook pro because 1) artist standard, works well with adobe software, etc. 2) I’m too lazy to go out and look for the perfect laptop because of time crunch 3) mac is expensive because apple has an active support team for its customers. I consider myself a hybrid user. I find cons and pros for both types and there are things that I love and miss in my old PC that is a little foreign here on a Mac. I do love how fast it loads up though — that was another reason. (and also because the new line of macbook pros had a price drop)

It’s easy to get excited about Macs, and I share the author’s enthusiasm, as do many others.

For some context, i have a macbook pro which i use all the time, i just choose not to try and convert people as i see no reason why i should, thats Apple’s job.

@vik89 There is RapidoWrite, you can find it here:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Word-Processing/RapidoWrite.shtml

Keep the comments coming.

Macs are not perfect. He says it at the end of the article. However, I must agree that the ease-of-use of Macs is so calming that I dread going to work. Turning off background apps and anti-virus is not an option with my company, so booting from startup and booting from sleep do take several minutes vs. my Mac that takes only about 10-15 seconds to get logged back in after sleep and about a minute to boot from the OFF position.

I don’t like Numbers. Why? you ask. Excel destroys Numbers when it comes to speed. I routinely deal with large spreadsheets approx. 100,000 rows. Numbers takes 10x longer to deal with spreadsheets of that size than Excel. If apple can fix that issue, I might actually switch to Numbers. On that note, Pages is pretty cool and Keynote is rockin’!

When I get out of law school, I will be converting my dad’s practice to Macs. My dad already loves Macs. He steals my mom’s Macbook and takes it to court. It bothers her somewhat, as you might imagine. When his 5 year old laptop dies he’ll probably get a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro 13″. He is by no means a power user, so lots of CPU is not what he needs, but the 15″ might be better since he’s already moved into the reading glasses group.

Sorry for the wall of text, but I get excited about Macs since I’m a fairly recent convert myself. I’m typing this on my 5 year old powerbook g4 12″ that’s still running very well. I like this article, and you showed off the OS adequately. I would only mention somewhere in the middle that OSX and Macs are better than Windows, but they’re not perfect. Recovering from a problem in OSX is much less stressful than recovering from Windows problems.

I’ve always been wondering why Mac people keep saying Macs wake up from sleep faster than Windows PCs. Even my old Windows laptop wakes up in three seconds. That’s just two seconds slower than my iMac! Now, were I to have a recent Windows PC whose hardware is on par with my iMac’s, I believe it makes sense it would wake up almost 100% as fast as my iMac, wouldn’t it?

No wonder I keep wondering about this…! Even Apple recognizes their OS could wake up from sleep faster. After all, they tout Snow Leopard does it up to twice faster. (I know this isn’t a really good argument.)

That said, I must confess a few irregularities. To keep our old laptop from being too slow, we don’t use any typical Windows security software. No anti-virus and the like. (In fact, I’ve been doing this for 15 years without problems! Looks like we’re very good Internet citizens.) And I don’t allow almost any kind of software to be always running, always present in the notification area unless it’s really always needed. So these two factors might account for Windows’ purportedly slowness at waking up from sleep.

What’s your take on this?

P.s. do you know a freeware that does the same as TextExpander ? Thanks…

This is an opinion piece, if you don’t like it, don’t read it. It’s perfectly valid to explain how you demo the Macintosh, and your workflow.

While this was a little wordy, he explained quite well how his macintosh aides in his workflow, and is more efficient than the typical dell that the company is using.

If you don’t like switchers, then don’t read articles from switchers…

IDIOT!