I agree it is built for multimedia, but sorry, it does not tend to be a lot smoother when doing, well, anything.
I may have been wrong with that statement. Maybe you do use PCs and Macs and have decided, on your own, that a Mac is better than the PC. But the reason I said you seem to have fallen victim to their marketing ploys is because you pretty much said everything they say when trying to push their overpriced product. It was like I was reading their catalog all over again.
You probably used a Mac with smoother recording applications. If you ran the same program on a PC, it would run exactly the same, if not smoother due to PCs having superior hardware available. And if you tell me the Mac and PC were running the same programs, then you were probably using a Mac that was more powerful than that particular PC you used. It's very simple. If you use a comparable PC, the Mac will not run any smoother or better than the PC. The comparable PC, however, will cost significantly less.
Point being Macs are no better than PCs, not even in the multimedia field. A PC can do anything a Mac can do with the same amount of ease.
Nah I don't work for Apple, but I have been contracted several times to repair their networks. I am a Mac/PC technician and network tech, so I deal with issues involving Macs all the time. What I meant when I said they have no protection is they have no defense against viruses. Like I said before, the clowns that write infectious software have just never bothered to write viruses for the Mac. If they wanted to, how do you figure Mac will defend it? They don't even know what a hacker would attack. Point being Macs are far from being "more secure." That's like saying Canada has a better national defense than we do because nobody bothers to attack them. You must be attacked before you know what to do to defend yourself.
Care to explain which virus has infected the Mac community and been shut down by Mac's "protection?" Ask your buddies that work for Apple.. If a Mac gets wiped out by an infection, you've lost everything. Not so with a PC. Just about anything can be recovered on a PC. If someone decides to write an infection that wipes out your Mac, it's a done deal. All your music, all your contents, everything you've created is gone. There's no getting it back. You have to back up everything you do or risk losing it all.
I'm not debating my "beliefs," I'm telling you from experiences with not only using PCs and Macs, but also repairing them. Macs are an unnecessary pain in the ass whenever an issue is found. On top of that, they don't do anything a PC cannot. PCs function just as well as a Mac with comparable hardware. PCs also have the benefit of having many 3rd-party hardware manufacturers, which often provide hardware superior to anything Apple has created.
The whole point of this is just to let you know Macs are not superior to PCs in any way. If anything they can only equal the computing power of a PC, but they do not beat it. A lot of companies (including multimedia corps) are starting to turn to the PC after experiencing issues with Macs (especially network problems). A lot of network techs will refuse to touch a Mac network, and for good reason. After finding out a PC has the ability to run the same type of programs a Mac has, they make the switch.
Now, whether or not the creators of some of Apple's programs will write software for the PC is another story. Apple normally tries to get exlusive rights to the programs that make people think a Mac outperforms the PC. It is not the Mac outperforming anything, it's the software outperforming. Even then, PC software companies will get a hold of that particular piece of software and write something that does the same thing, but for the PC.
