LOL. I love how it only kills Macs. Serves them right for using Apple shite.

They tested it on 3 macs and one pc. Mac motherboards are nothing special because you don't build you own macs, but a built pc might have a quality motherboard with all those hard caps and voltage spike protection. My guess is that is what saved it. a cheap pc motherboard would die, too.

Yeah, I gathered that. Which makes it all the more funny that a $2000 Apple Mac has such a piece of shit quality motherboard and is 3x under-powered compared to a $2000 PC.

You're pretty much paying the idiot tax buying an Apple

*engineering

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by Zawash.

To be fair, Apples are actually really useful for certain jobs. And i don't mean propping tables up or holding doors open.

They have without doubt some of the most quality engineered laptops on the planet. I have a Macbook and my wife has an Asus Macbook clone (straight down to the silver-polish finish). And yes, hers cost less and has a dedicated GPU so she could play games on it (if she had any interest in games) but the Macbook is lighter, keeps the battery charged longer, has a much more beautiful display (Retina vs Full Hd), is much more comfortable to type with, and the touchpad is just freaking heaven to use. I now hate having to use touchpads on any Windows laptop, even my bootcamped Mac!

And you hit the nail on the head about using the right tool for the right job--I work with video as part of my job sometimes and I don't think I can ever go back to video editing on a Windows machine. I can do it easier and faster on an OSX device.

I think also the initial outward simplicity of Mac operating systems makes them ideal for people who don't want to or don't have time to become "computer people" and worry about dealing with downloading the latest drivers or all of the other BS that you need to constantly deal with on a Windows machine. I especially wish my dad, who is constant calling me and my brother for help with his PC, would just switch over to a Mac as it would solve probably 95% of the issues he calls us about.

The average PC user would start up a mac, try to play some games, go "oh i can't play most games", get confused because the operating system doesn't work like windows, then close it down and say it's shit.

If you're criticising Apple about anything other than price then you're criticising Unix which is pretty stupid. For coding or science i would not use a PC unless i had absolutely no other choice. But of course, that's mainly a compliment about unix-like machines which include apple but also your favourite linux distro.

People seem to think you have a lot more control over a PC than a mac and whilst that used to be true, it's not really true anymore. I personally feel i have a lot more control over how my airbook works (via command line and within OSX itself) than my windows desktop machine.

I always said if you know a lot about computers, you think macs are crap. But if you learn a bit more about computers, you realise what macs are good for.

/me looks at IDENTICAL 7-port USB hub used on this very PC (not Mac) for years; counts blessings. (Only difference: it has a green LED, not blue.)

All you mac people are so snowed or blind or just desperately trying to justify your money being wasted on a inferior product.

any thing can be done faster on a proper pc (proper meaning it uses the latest processor memory ssd and graphics card)

but the trouble comes from people when they get on pc they get cheap and expect to do their video editing in virtual dub (not knocking vdub by the way)

or try and find some other video tool they can use for free . they wont buy a proper video editing software package nor will they buy proper software tools for their jobs . they try and use free alternatives or try and pirate the software.

but when they use mac they by the video editing software and the tools they need .

it is such bs, macs are weaker hardware weaker operating system and a weaker overall tool . but since people have invested so much money into them they unjustly justify there purchases by derailing the pc as a lesser platform.

when it is not true.

pcs, can have dedicated storage that outperforms and also stores more than any mac can dream of .

pcs can be all self contained no need for plethora of external drives hanging form 4 may be 3 or is it 2? soon to become one port hanging off your mac in a needless chain of wires.

pcs can have higher resolution and better monitors better user input, better configuration options, and backwards and forward compatibility with previous and next gen software.

but no, mac users over shadow this with the base argument that their $1500 mac is some how better than the $300 desktop they love comparing to .

but when it becomes price point vs hardware mac users have no ground to stand on as they are using , even in their newest machines 3+ year old hard ware and even on a refresh they are already 1 year behind in technology.

mac is nothing more than a placebo for those who failed at using windows computers .

they constantly compare a custom 1500 dollar computer with a locked in user experience to a 300 dollar walmart special with a completely open user experience and lament the windows based product as inferior.

when in actuality it is the mac that is the inferior product.

did you know that your $2000++ mac has a 5400 rpm hardrive in it configured to work with 128gb ssd in such a way that if either of the two fail your entire data set is trashed?

yeah ... thats a well built product .

LOL. Keep drinking the Apple kool-aid, hipsters.