Originally Posted by
Procrastinus
Generally spaeking, Apple products are way too expensive and some say under engineered. You are buying into a brand.
IMHO avoid Apple ( Iwas going to say 'at all costs'!) and buy a better machine for less from another manufacturer!
In my experience Apple's hardware is far better engineered than any other manufacturer.
If you want raw horsepower then yes, you can get a PC which on paper (or screen) might run quicker.
What those numbers won't tell you is that the Mac just works, no crashes, no fiddling with anti-virus stuff or under the hood issues.
It's about productivity - raw speed isn't everything...
I run a year old iMac i9 day to day, with an HP W10 laptop for occasionally running some bespoke stuff for UAV control.
I dread having to get the laptop out, I just hate it...
Out of interest, I run Parallels on the iMac, I have to use WinXP for running a small (old) app for converting files to a laser cutter format.
I also run Solidworks on a W10 virtual machine on top of Parallels.
It works fine, faster than some of my clients who run SW on worksatations - they are generally gobsmacked when they see it...