Mac vs. PC
Since a few weeks I’m running a 15” MacBookPro beside my beloved HP 8510w as a productive workstation. Because a lot of my friends asked me about my experience I want to share my current point of view. First of all some facts collected over the last month:
Hardware
| Feature | MAC | PC |
|---|---|---|
| Keyboard Keys | - | x |
| Keyboard backlight | x | - |
| Fingerprint sensor | - | x |
| Docking Station | - | x |
| Smart Cards | - | x |
| Silence | x | - |
| Weight | x | - |
| Beamer-Connectivity | adaptor | native |
| Touchpad | x | - |
| USB-Ports | 2 | 4 |
| PCMCIA/UMTS | - | x |
| Dual Boot | x | - |
| Style | x | - |
Software
| Feature | OSX | Windows 7 | Windows Server 2008 R2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| File system viewer columns | - | x | x |
| Virtualization | x (VMWare Fusion 3) | - | x (Hyper-V) |
I really like the MAC a lot not only because I can also run a Windows 7 on it. But my HP (even if 2 years old and a few bucks more expensive) feels faster - maybe because of the hard drive. We’ll see after I switched to SSD :-P
Last but not least my recommendation: Ummm… get both man!