I really have nothing against Macs per say but every company (or organization) I’ve ever worked for has been Windows workstation, again this is probably due to the specific drafting, design and engineering software we were using:
I think Macs are more dominant in the photography world and other art related trades.
Realistically Windows is still the dominant platform world wide. I think Linux has been gaining some ground recently and it catching up to MacOS in numbers recently.
Every company provided laptop I’ve ever used has been a Windows machine. Occasionally upper management would have a Mac laptop but it was typically a personal machine/preference and their actual company laptop was a Windows machine.
If I had the extra cash to blow, sure I’d buy myself a nice Mac just to have and play with but I’m not quite there yet.
The weird thing about this discussion is that the topic (be it Windows vs. macOS or MAC vs. PC) tries to make people narrow-minded and see the world only black and white! This reads really strange, if you worked in yet another field and discover neither of these both systems are tools adequate for to get the job done. Requirements are different and that’s why we need to differentiate – not only shades of gray but tones of colors.
It was kind of a brilliant coup by Apple to promote their software and hardware (now with identical CPU instruction set as Windows-compatible hardware) as a unit and coin all the diversity of everything else under a single “opponent” term “PC”. As if it was a single thing and there was only that single, worse alternative?
That’s totally fine for a marketing campaign (as is propaganda in politics), but taking over these terms is not a good basis for an objective discussion and evaluation and therefore I strongly vote for speaking either about hardware (and naming the manufacturer or CPU architecture) or operating systems (and naming them), as @moriah.teague did.
Who noticed that this is not a sailplane vs. a US spaceshuttle, but actually a Russian Buran on an Antonov AN-225?
Sometimes the best (if there can be such) is not what we thought. It is useful to look over the edge of the plate and see there are multiple alternatives and assess them on your own before deciding.
The Original Poster asked a very specific question that wasn’t is PC better than Mac?
All those posts that have wandered off from answering that specific question should be noted as off topic and removed from the thread. Mine included. @moriah.teague asked a legitimate question about how V Ray performs with the different OS’, anything else is irrelevant.
In the same way as Catholic V Protestants, Rep V Dem, opinionated V self opinionated…is more interesting.
The forum is about helping and answering questions. Subjective opinions don’t answer questions.
Come on, what is life without a little fun once in a while.
Seriously though, look at the title of this thread, that is an awfully loaded question. I’m actually surprised the conversation isn’t more spirited than it is.
Which actually brings me to a related (but probably off topic) question. What are the advantages to running SketchUp on a Mac? If there are enough advantages or reasons then it might give me cause enough to consider switching…
This is again going off-topic. Let’s stop it here.
What do you count? Desktops? Desktops and mobile? Desktops and mobile and IoT and cars? Statistics without reference are wild claims. Statistics with reference are freely biased depending on choice of source. And how is it relevant – in an interconnected world where the production and delivery of any product or content that you consume involve a variety of systems?
This discussion leads to nothing and does not answer the OP’s question.
Isn’t that the point.
In a world where it is becoming the norm that if you say it loud enough and often enough it is true, some of us want to answer questions with answers not alternate facts. In this case we just want to answer the question asked, not all possible permutations of the various words in the question.
So, steering back tward topic. Does anyone know of a formal or informal list of the differences in the UI between the two operating systems. It would be useful to know when deciding about switching, and useful for me when answering questions across platforms on the forum.
of course, but we did not live in a perfect world and posting this in every thread with OTs would create additional noise on top of the OT itself… as you can see above.
