Macbook V Windows Laptops

Rooky007

Rooky007

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I am a long Term Mac users and I have always love Mac and ****ged Windows off. But today I was having a look at them and I just though they are very quick now and the ones I looked at was Shutting down and booting up quicker than the latest MBP can this be right at all?

Performance was very impressive I just couldn't believe it..

Anyone help here the reason for this
 
SSDs.

Macs are great because they are instant-on, for the most part. These days, with the streamlining of Windows 10 and SSDs, Windows laptops are just as quick to boot.
 
EVH said:
SSDs.

Macs are great because they are instant-on, for the most part. These days, with the streamlining of Windows 10 and SSDs, Windows laptops are just as quick to boot.
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Well the mob I saw took 10 secs to cold boot. Windows took 5 secs I just found it odd
 
Rooky007 said:
Well the mob I saw took 10 secs to cold boot. Windows took 5 secs I just found it odd
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Rooky007 said:
Does Windows still get bogged down
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My 2 year old MBP cold boots in about 5-6 seconds. If I get the chance, I'll film it and post a video. Not wishing to make excuses, but sometimes display machines have to load retail profiles and may be carrying a bit of bloat.

As far I know, Windows file system does degrade over time, but nothing major.
 
EVH said:
My 2 year old MBP cold boots in about 5-6 seconds. If I get the chance, I'll film it and post a video. Not wishing to make excuses, but sometimes display machines have to load retail profiles and may be carrying a bit of bloat.

As far I know, Windows file system does degrade over time, but nothing major.
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Would u still choose Mac over Windows laptops
 
It depends what you want to do with the machine.

I use my MBP for photo editing, writing assignments/dissertations and general web surfing. Could I do this with a Windows machine? Absolutely... Would it be cheaper? Possibly... I like the fit and finish of the Mac and how everything is available at a moments notice. I like that I can install apps using drag and drop, I like the speed and the OS updates are free so I never feel left behind.

For instance, I would have wiped a Windows laptop every 9 months or so just to keep it clean and clutter-free. I've had my MBP for almost 2 years and it doesn't need anything doing to it, beside the odd wipe over with a cloth :p

I tend to flirt with gaming systems / Windows machines every few years and whilst I miss that on the Mac, I find that I quickly lose the love of installing drivers and end up back on a Mac because it "just works". If you check the forums, I'm sure there is a photo of a custom watercooling gaming pc setup that I built but it always felt too much whereas I know what I want the MBP to do, and it does it well (I'm also not sat looking at it and thinking about how much the graphics card has depreciated by!)
 
Thank you for all the information you provided on this. So Windows is still needing drivers etc and it still get slown down and needing all these protecting softwares?
 
Arguably OSX is getting to need security software too now, although appreciate it's less of a risk.
I have a MacBook Pro and a Windows 10 desktop and to be fair so far the desktop has not had any obvious signs of slowdown and it was upgraded from 8.1 to 10 last year at launch.

My biggest issue when it comes to Windows laptops is the fact even now, if you go for a very high res screen, there are a lot of apps that do not scale properly at all.

Not found anything on the Retina MacBook that doesn't display correctly.
 
Id like to add that adding a Bootcamp partition to a Mac laptop, gives you the choice of dualbooting into either OSX or Windows 10.
 
I've yet to find a Windows laptop that I like as much as any MBP I've had - and it's not just about the OS. I can run OSX/Windows at the same time, and pretty much do anything.

I find the power of Windows in a decent VM astonishingly flexible - snapshots/rollback/fast setup. Doing that on raw tin is just a pain whereas it's a doddle in a virtual setup.

Can't remember the last time I booted to BootCamp, should probably remove it.
 
Speaking of which, I accidentally nuked the OS X software sticky so I'm creating another and mentioning boot camp for this reason ;)
 
I have wondered how relevant this still is though - who actually shuts down their laptop still rather than just closes the lid and lets it suspend/hibernate/etc? I can't say I actually boot up laptop from cold more than a couple of times a month...
 
bigredshark said:
I have wondered how relevant this still is though - who actually shuts down their laptop still rather than just closes the lid and lets it suspend/hibernate/etc? I can't say I actually boot up laptop from cold more than a couple of times a month...
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But if they don't take as long to boot up like they use to from what i have seen some are booting up in 5 secs and that is brill..

What system your using
 
Macs - pretty much always just let sleep / closed lid etc. The sleep battery life on my home and work Macs is just awesome really.

Not had a Windows laptop in quite a while but I remember being in the habit of shutting it down most of the time
 
shiver said:
Macs - pretty much always just let sleep / closed lid etc. The sleep battery life on my home and work Macs is just awesome really.

Not had a Windows laptop in quite a while but I remember being in the habit of shutting it down most of the time
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Well Looks like I am sticking to Mac, As I know how it all works and everything I own is pretty much apple LOL.

Just need Apple to hurry up and get a new version out that why I was looking at Windows laptops. I just don't want to buy the current MBP as it over 400 days old. Not as fast Pro chip which should be out on the new one.
 
Rooky007 said:
Thank you for all the information you provided on this. So Windows is still needing drivers etc and it still get slown down and needing all these protecting softwares?
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Windows 10 is pretty decent as it automatically finds and installs drivers so you don't need to worry about them. It also has Windows Defender built in so you don't need another AV.

It does slow down but comparing my old laptop (passed down to a relative) to my brother's MBP 2013 model (both around same age/specs), both has slowed down about the same. 10 does hybrid boot which is similar to what OSX does hence the fast boot times.

You can always play with bootcamp if you want to give it a go.
 
Rooky007 said:
But if they don't take as long to boot up like they use to from what i have seen some are booting up in 5 secs and that is brill..

What system your using
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True, I've just got so used to opening the lid and it's there so it ceased mattering to me...

2015 15" rMBP, 2016 12" rMB and a Dell Latitude E7250 here...
 
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