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I have a Windows 10 machine and my iOS devices are up to date.

I can drag/drop or copy/paste photos and videos just fine.

I only need to use iTunes to sync music.

In fact, I just tried it with my new work PC with Windows 10 and my iPhone, which I also use for work.

You’ll get a pop-up on your computer asking what you want to do when you plug the iPhone in AND you’ll get a little pop-up on the phone asking if you want to allow the computer to access photos and videos.

The computer may indicate you need to restart to finish the setup.

Then, you’ll look for a little Apple iPhone icon in your File Explorer.

I admit. Having to use iTunes to sync music is a pain.
 
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It used to be a big deal. Now it is not. All computers do the same things just in slightly different ways. Switching to a different OS requires relearning how to do things. Some people find that hard, some don't. I have two Macs and three PCs. I have clients with PCs, Macs, Windows servers, and Linux servers. I don't see a lot of difference in how secure any of them are. They can all be hacked quite easily. That said Microsoft has gone crazy with the way updates are distributed. Your computer will reboot seemingly anytime and there is nothing you can do about it. I have seen it take half a day to update. If you try to stop the process you are in for a world of hurt. Both Mac and Linux let you put off updates until you are ready for them. Note that you should not put off updates for very long but it is nice not to logon to your computer in the morning and be able to use it before noon.
 
I've hated Windows for 20 years... Also, one company I worked for made software for broadcasting, and we sometimes dealt with Microsoft engineers - they were the worst engineers in the business (and as far as I know, the MS software never made it to a reliable enough level to be used in TV broadcasting).

I've tried Ubuntu and various others and found them all difficult and buggy.

Never wanted to be an Apple Sheep, but about a year ago I needed a new laptop for work which had to be ultra reliable with an excellent OS. I bought a Macbook and it has been fantastic. A few months back I spent a fair chunk of change on a well specc'd 2018 Mac Mini and a widescreen monitor - it is bloody fantastic. Apple OS and hardware (especially the way they are optimised to work together) is fantastic - go for it; you will wish you'd done so years ago. I use Microsoft Outlook as my email client, Microsoft OneNote as my main research/notes tool and Microsoft Word as my main word processor - they all work better on my Macs then they have ever done on any Windows machine.

The Mac Mini is an excellent machine with one weakness: the graphics card is a very average onboard Intel graphics card. It's fine for normal use, but if you are doing professional work (or do gaming) that needs a strong graphics card then you'll need to be an external eGPU which will be another $500 at least. In which case the all in one iMac would suit you better although the older generation processor is nowhere near the speed of the Mac Mini's. If you wait a few months then a new iMac will come out with 8th generation Intel processors and good AMD graphics cards, so it's probably worth the wait, imho.
 
I doubt I'll ever go to a Mac. I just hate the way Apple operates in general. All their proprietary crap just pisses me off. There are industry standards for almost everything
and Apple goes out of their way to design their own stuff that will work only with Apple and then they up-charge a very high premium price.

I have ZERO problems with Microsoft based PC's or Windows 10. It's just this cross platform thing with the iPhone. I'll just use the iPhone for work because I have to.
I'll continue to use Android products for my personal devices.

My rant on the iPhone just drove home to me the fact that Apple still wants to force users to integrate everything they use to Apple. I read so many posts about how
easy it is to transfer photos and music from the iPhone to a Mac PC. Well guess what? I don't have a Mac PC nor does my company.
 
^ Apple is a bastard in some ways, I agree (I've also never liked the company and its habits). The two worst parts for me are: iTunes which is and has always been total crap; the lightening connector on iPhones (for that reason I sold my iPhone 8 and got a Samsung Note 9 with a nice USB-C and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

But, where Apple excels is hardware/software integration with the result that everything is just smoother. When I turn on a Mac it's fully operational within 10-12 seconds while a Microsoft machine takes at least a minute and often much much longer (the times when I'm busy, need to get straight to work, turn a MS machine on then it auto updates for 5, 10, 20, who knows how long, minutes really drives me to raging anger... :mad:). To some degree that's not Microsoft's fault because they have to work across a very wide range of hardware implementations...

Nonetheless, I personally found that changing to a Mac has seriously improved my workflow and state of mind (as Kerry says, the ability to control updates is really nice).

Edit to add: all my work computers run Microsoft Windows, and the university uses Google Apps (because they are free...) for email communication, file storage, etc. Over the last 18 months I produced several hundred documents in Word, .PDF and Google docs (as well as the crappy Google PPT program) for work (excluding my own stuff which is mainly Word, Outlook, Chrome/Safari, and stuff like Python editors, etc) and most of the time I sat at my office computer running Windows and just used my Macbook - worked flawlessly. In my work situation they do not update and manage the s/w because our IT department are somewhere between useless and non-existent, so obviously badly attended Microsoft operating systems become terrible; less so if well looked after... I noticed that Macs had less problems running and converting documents into/out of Google docs than the Microsoft machines had - this may be Googles fault rather than Microsoft's, but it was very noticeable.

When I had an iPhone 8, taking pictures with it then seeing them (almost) instantly on my Macbook was great. But, when I sold the iPhone it was a bit of a learning curve dealing with iTunes and non-Apple devices. I tended to use a USB-C or bluetooth to send pictures across from one device to another - I don't like iTunes at all, for music or photos or payments, and I have turned the iCloud off on all my devices... Instead I have a small SSD running as a backup (Apple has a pre-installed app called TimeMachine, it's automatic and excellent). Also, I use my Microsoft account as my cloud service - thus, Microsoft works seamlessly with Macs nowadays.

The irritating area to me, similar to Sp8ctre, is iTunes and iPhones, so I don't use either. I'm sure it can be done, but I just found it frustrating and worked out a different way (no iPhone, no iTunes and no iCloud [having said that, iCloud and Airdrop, which is their local form of Bluetooth delivery between Apple devices, do work very well...). Right, I'll shut up now... :D
 
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I've hated Windows for 20 years... Also, one company I worked for made software for broadcasting, and we sometimes dealt with Microsoft engineers - they were the worst engineers in the business (and as far as I know, the MS software never made it to a reliable enough level to be used in TV broadcasting).

I've tried Ubuntu and various others and found them all difficult and buggy.

Never wanted to be an Apple Sheep, but about a year ago I needed a new laptop for work which had to be ultra reliable with an excellent OS. I bought a Macbook and it has been fantastic. A few months back I spent a fair chunk of change on a well specc'd 2018 Mac Mini and a widescreen monitor - it is bloody fantastic. Apple OS and hardware (especially the way they are optimised to work together) is fantastic - go for it; you will wish you'd done so years ago. I use Microsoft Outlook as my email client, Microsoft OneNote as my main research/notes tool and Microsoft Word as my main word processor - they all work better on my Macs then they have ever done on any Windows machine.

The Mac Mini is an excellent machine with one weakness: the graphics card is a very average onboard Intel graphics card. It's fine for normal use, but if you are doing professional work (or do gaming) that needs a strong graphics card then you'll need to be an external eGPU which will be another $500 at least. In which case the all in one iMac would suit you better although the older generation processor is nowhere near the speed of the Mac Mini's. If you wait a few months then a new iMac will come out with 8th generation Intel processors and good AMD graphics cards, so it's probably worth the wait, imho.
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Thanks for your input here on this matter Grumpy! I will definitely be taking this into consideration, thanks for posting!!
 
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^ Apple is a bastard in some ways, I agree (I've also never liked the company and its habits). The two worst parts for me are: iTunes which is and has always been total crap; the lightening connector on iPhones (for that reason I sold my iPhone 8 and got a Samsung Note 9 with a nice USB-C and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

But, where Apple excels is hardware/software integration with the result that everything is just smoother. When I turn on a Mac it's fully operational within 10-12 seconds while a Microsoft machine takes at least a minute and often much much longer (the times when I'm busy, need to get straight to work, turn a MS machine on then it auto updates for 5, 10, 20, who knows how long, minutes really drives me to raging anger... :mad:). To some degree that's not Microsoft's fault because they have to work across a very wide range of hardware implementations...

Nonetheless, I personally found that changing to a Mac has seriously improved my workflow and state of mind (as kerry says, the ability to control updates is really nice).
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I leave my PC on 24/7 and have it scheduled to do updates at 2AM. I am rarely if ever interrupted by an update. I do agree that if I have to shut down and reboot
the time it takes is frustrating, but that's our own fault for thinking we need to do everything faster...remember 1200 baud dial up? I DO! Remember Tape Drives? Hours to load a program!
 
Sp8ctre said:
I leave my PC on 24/7 and have it scheduled to do updates at 2AM. I am rarely if ever interrupted by an update. I do agree that if I have to shut down and reboot
the time it takes is frustrating, but that's our own fault for thinking we need to do everything faster...remember 1200 baud dial up? I DO! Remember Tape Drives? Hours to load a program!
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But it can be a seriously problem. For example, I've been to a conference with a laptop running Windows and when I plugged it in to present to hundreds of people it did an update which took over an hour. OK, I had the presentation on two separate devices, but the conference computer had all it's ports used, so it took some time to unplug a device, load my device onto the computer then set up the unplugged device again. I've also had a similar problem where I've sent a PPT in advance to the conference computer (it was put on the desktop), I tested it about 30 minutes before my presentation then when I came to present the computer did an update... In that case I pulled out my laptop and plugged into the projector directly, so everything was ok, but in both cases I had to have layers of backup because of the way Windows can impinge upon your work day - that shouldn't happen, and I've seen other less prepared presenters caught out many times. That's just one example. Hotdesking is very common now, and logging out then in can give MS an opportunity to force an update; that can be a problem.

Lastly, I'll mention the longevity of laptops: I've found mine to last about 3 years, sometimes 4 - that's it. Everyone I know who runs Macs lasts 5+ years, so pricewise I don't think Macs are more expensive over the term of ownership.

I can certainly understand why you hate iPhones, iTunes and Apple. But, Macs are damn fine machines, imho.
 
I have been with Windows since day one, which was something like 20 floppy discs (memory fails me)....anyway....I have Windows 10 to be the best by far. I used to have crashes all the time, and have had none in approx. two years of Windows 10. Not saying your experience is not valid, sorry you're having problems.
 
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I have been with Windows since day one, which was something like 20 floppy discs (memory fails me)....anyway....I have Windows 10 to be the best by far. I used to have crashes all the time, and have had none in approx. two years of Windows 10. Not saying your experience is not valid, sorry you're having problems.
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It's not Windows 10 for me it's the incompatibility of an iPhone with anything not Apple...
 
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