I agree in a way but I go by go by forums or help pages as such, I’ve never once posted how well my macs working, I can only advise from my personal experience, and that is, since 2008 1 x pc, upgraded or repaired 3 times, 2 x laptops that packed up, bought a 2010 imac in 2013, then moved to mac at work with a new one in 2016, except my own stupidy, both have been faultless and both are almost as quick as the day I got them, admittedly my 2010 is starting to struggle with LR and PS but I expect that as it wasn’t even top of the line then.
Looking back I prob spent the same on PC’s as macs and the PC was prob quicker at that point due to updated parts, but the sheer agro was enough to make the move, I honestly believe if you have the knowledge and want to tinker a PC is a better choice.
As a certain person mentioned in another thread, some anecdotes are more valid than others. [shrug]
My macbook needed a new Mobo after 3 months with a well-known chipset fault (from where my quote came). In the first 18 months the USB ports wore and became unreliable with most non-Apple USB connectors that were perfectly good in every other PC around. Installing OSX 10.6 (version .3, after it had been out 6 months) caused a total inability to print that was not unique to my machine, and reverting back to 10.5 in desperation because I needed to be productive meant losing 3 weeks of work and emails because time machine was deliberately made not backwards compatible - perhaps I could have taken another day off & gone to the Apple store if I could get a 'genius' appointment for more snarky advice (and likely no fix). I also had to buy an app to make it able to drive an external monitor that had previously been fine with the purchased Apple dongle. The OS required reinstalling about every 18 months because it simply slowed down, just like windows used to (finally resolved with Lion, just like windows 8 solved that problem for Microsoft). The machine itself required multiple upgrades in order to remain usable in the first 5 years of life, and after a couple of years a 2 min boot time was normal. SSD and 8GB RAM fixed that, but could not fix the firmware update that came with Lion that gave it a 1 minute crawl through post before starting to boot into the OS. It had issues with the trackpad not working properly that have resolved recently. The machine is 10 years old now, sluggish for surfing, editing photos on Lightroom 5 but OK for office apps that were installed when first bought.
I still use it for travel and media consumption.
For balance, this Dell XPS is nearly 5 years old. It's had 1 onsite visit to replace a failed keyboard, just before the 3 year warranty was up (the engineer was really nice, helpful, no sarcasm etc). Like the Macbook, I upgraded it, 32GB cache to 256GB mSATA SSD and internal HDD first to 1TB SSD, then recently 2TB HDD because I ran out of space. I also replaced the battery about 18 months ago because the old one was swelling. Compared to the Macbook at the same point in its life, this is performing much better - at 4 1/2 years I was already wishing I could justify an upgrade and was frustrated with its slowness, but while this could be faster, it's still quite acceptable and is my editing machine through an external monitor.
The irony is that I bought the Macbook because at the time I wanted the best computer I could afford for my own startup business, and at first I loved it, but no amount of animations or smily computer logos could get round the fact that actually it wasn't very good and Apple weren't very good either. Dell is not particularly great to deal with either, but they've never left me feeling ripped off and angry. When I DID upgrade from that original Macbook I looked at a new Macbook pro, but to get one that was semi-future proof was WAY out of my budget, and they were no longer upgradable. The Dell XPS was about £1000 through the outlet and a similar spec Macbook pro was £1800. I'm not blind to windows flaws, but coming to W8 was a breath of fresh air after 5 1/2 years of OSX.
Outside of the laptops I've been running Linux at home since the early 2000s, and that generally 'just works' too, installing drivers for graphics, sound cards and printers that aren't supported in older commercial OSs with no user set-up required.
Probably I should stay out of 'what computer' threads.
