This has been a hate love series. In my previous blog, I have written the 9 things I hate about the Mac and the Mac OS X. This post will refer to 10 things I love about the Mac and its OS.
No doubt the Mac is one of a kind machine though under the hood it has all parts a PC has. In no way I am starting a debate about the Mac and PC. There are enough sites and articles on the
web that tries to get some page by instigating the Apple and PC fans. Lets get on with what I thing of this beauty.
1. Design
You guys have to admit this. Apple has one of the best designs around. They always come up with innovative and creative ideas and it shows in their products. I have the
13 inch Macbook Pro and absolutely love the design and unibody chasis.
2. Speed
Start up and shutdown speeds are great. Start up takes about 30 seconds on my 2.2GHz machine. Shut down takes just 4 seconds.
Windows 7 is definitely catching up.
3. Battery Life
Where else can you get this kind of battery life from other notebooks? Yes, Intel CULV based notebooks from other manufacturers have done it and doing it. But the battery normally sticks out like a sore thumb.
Apples Macbook Pro is a Centrino processor with power optimised hardware brings the battery life to 7hrs. Alright, normal surfing with screen brightness at 60% gives anywhere from 5.5 to 6 hours. Still I have not used any notebooks that can give this kind of battery performance out of the box and in a slim design. Only other product was the Acer netbook I had which lasted 4 hours with the 6-cell battery sticking out.
4. Track pad
I am awe struck by how the track pad works. My family members and friends were amazed. It is the first time we are using the multi touch track pad and it just gets things done quickly and easily once you are used to it. It looks rather fancy swiping your two, three and four fingers around.
See the video here for how the track pad works.
5. The Dock
The first thing you will notice once you power up the machine is the Dock.
This is where you can keep your most used application. One click and you can launch your apps. It has this 3-Dish look as the icons are on a plane giving the look.
6. Stacks
Stacks are simply folders that are on the dock. Clicking it brings up the list of files in the folder with relevant names and icons displayed. A quick and easy way to access your Downloads and Documents. By default the Downloads and Documents are the stacks.
7. Finder and Cover flow
Finder has been much refined from version to versions of OS X. With the latest Snow Leopard it has been much enhanced.
The first thing you will see is the commonly used items on the left pane. It is grouped for quick access. You can even add a most used folder to the left pane.
Cover flow is another useful feature though you can live without it. It gives a quick view of the files you have in a thumbnail. You can even play the music or video directly from it just to see a sample before playing in full screen or in your favourite media player.
8. Time Machine
Absolutely useful and fool proof method of backing up you system and data. Plug-in you external hard drive and make it time machine compatible. After that your Mac will be regularly backed up.
If you happen to reinstall the OS all your data and applications can be restored from the time machine disk. Cool huh!
Enter the time machine to restore files.
9. Parental Control
You could probably live without it. Basically you can control what a particular user can do on your machine. Even has timer function where it only allows a use to login during a particular time. Useful if you have kids and you want to limit the time they use on the PC. Go and Study Kids!
10. iLife application
iLife applications really saves your life. No frustrations using them. It is so easy to use and powerful. I finished editing 3 DVD worth of movie clips in 6 days. I have waiting to edit the movies when I was using the PC. Moreover absolutely free and comes with the Mac.
- iPhoto to manage your photos
- iMovie to edit movies
- Garageband to make your music. If you are a musician an excellent peice of software. Too bad I am not.
- iWeb to create simple websites.
Concluding
Its money well spent for me. It is portable and powerful enough for my use. Battery life is absolutely a boon as I can use it for long periods without much worry.
Try a mac and you will know what I mean.
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