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Am I allowed to say, "The one that benchmarks faster for the tasks I use most often." 

Though if you're a numbers guy I've got a 5,000 horse power car with 50lbs of torque I'd like to sell you. On a clear day, in the salt flats, in a vacuum it'll smoke anything you throw at it.

mactommy said:

The Surface Studio has. 2.9 gig i7 laptop processor while the iMac has a 4.2 gig i7 desktop processor. Which one do you think is faster?

JWSC said:

hypoluxa said:

epicurus said:

I am stuck using a windows machine at work for a few projects but use my Macbook Pro for every labor intensive, My lenovo workstation at work three months out of the box had to be completely redone as some update cause the whole operating system to be completely rendered unusable and drive had to be reformatted and everything reinstalled a hassle indeed. That aside the same applications on windows and on mac from adobe just feels more polished and normal on the mac, i can open and process hundred photos at a time on the macbook but the windows machine photoshop freezes if i attempt to open more then 20 at a time.. everything just is quicker onnthe mac, even adding fonts, easy to find and install not always the case on the windows machine. Sure the Lenovo was cheap but it’s a 2017 model and can’t handle the workload that my 2011 macbook pro does.. Windows seems great for utilitarian work like office, accounting, email, gaming, but when it comes down to me getting photography, design and programming done that i solely do on the mac. Ill gladly pay more for a computer system that just works and needs very little maintenance over eight years almost now... My 2006 macbook still works just slow, i’ve never had a windows machine work longer then three years

Exactly. The Windows environment is a giant Charlie Foxtrot, for the most part. I don't get why MS just doesn't stick to software, and making that better.

Agree.  MS needs to keep their focus on software.

Twenty years ago Apple realized that their OS architecture was at a dead end as a result of their failures with Copland and Taligent.  NeXT and UNIX and Steve Jobs saves their collective asses.  If only MS would wake up and just get on with rewriting Windows from the ground up using UNIX, they’d have much better security and stability.  Everyone would benefit.

I might even cheer for MS a little bit.  (Wait..!  What did I just say...?)

MS has already rewritten Windows in the form of cross platform toolchains and cloud services. People seemed to have missed this and are getting side tracked by reference designs like the Surface. The Surface has always been about a set of products which dog food Microsoft's computing ideals. It is then up to OEMs to optimize and mass produce.

That being said: .NET, Azure, SQL Server, and PowerShell are all cross platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). Nadella is certainly the Steve Jobs of this epoch for MS.

Microsoft quite frankly doesn't care if you never buy a Surface PC. The above strategy is printing them money and winning loyalty. VS Code is widly celebrated and Typescript is being adopted more commonly a solid language for large JS projects. Azure is a monumental success story that neither Google or Apple have quite been able to push aside.

Microsoft is very much awake. Teams are trying to keep Windows relevant because it has a huge ROI from small business, gamers, and budget users. The preference to use Windows for a give  set of use cases is celebrated and rewarded by Microsoft (have you seen thier work in accessibly devices in gaming?) but you no longer lose out on services/offerings outside of those cases by going to a different plaform.

This whole article is sad. Like people comparing a Ford Taurus with a Porche and mocking Ford's efforts in the space. It just comes across as fairly myoptic to the company, its strategy or the clear evidence that Ford shifted to trucks and the F150 made more money than Facebook in 2017. This giant article comparing a Porche 911 to a Ford Fiesta and asking why Ford can get away with price bumps for adding Bluetooth but Porche gets attacked for fit and finish upgrades and 10k mufflers is somewhat laughable.

Everyone I know with a Mac also has MS Office installed. The current motto of MS might as well be, "Use whatever OS you want. We still get paid." 

Use the right tool for the job but these arguments about hammers not being able to screw things in is baffling.

I am sorry that MS can't fit _everyones_ use case but if that is the qualifier then let's start and end every MacBook conversation with the point that it's a junk choice for gaming.

Oh, you can also upgrade a PC from like Windows 3.11 all the way up to Windows 10 on good hardware. Pretty sure _everything_ Apple made prior to 2005 (hardware _and_ software) switch to Intel is in a trash can right?

This is article is the Fox News of computer reporting. Apple must be in trouble if the only news is crying about comparisons no one is making.