Windows and Mac OS - 'Who' wins?

Apple and Microsoft - The war seems to have no stops. The same is true for Mac OS and Windows platforms. Let's put these two platforms 'on the scale' to see which platform is truly the winner.

Windows has long been regarded as the 'dominant ' market for personal computer operating systems. However, along with Apple's 'boom ' and personal computer products such as the iMac, MacBook . the 'apple' MacOS X operating system also led to its brand recognition in the platform market of the device. Personal.

So Windows or Mac OS, where is the first choice for users? Let's take a look at a few comparisons below to draw your own comments.

Stability level:

Apple's Mac OS is considered a stable platform, because it separates most of the software from each other and out of the operating system to help increase stability.

Meanwhile, Windows is judged to be less stable when operating system components are tied together. If a problematic component will cause the entire system crash state.

Blue screen of death - 'nightmare' of Windows users

In addition, Windows users often face the famous 'blue screen of death' ('blue screen of death').

Result: Mac OS - Windows: 1-0

Security issue:

Apple is famous for often disregarding security issues on its products. Mac OS also often faces security, virus and hacker problems.

However, considering security issues, MacOS does not seem to be a rival to Windows. A series of security products, patches are constantly being released but it still seems to be insufficient.

Windows users always face virus and hacker problems

The reason Windows faced more security issues than Mac OS because the number of Windows users is many times larger than Mac OS, which is why hackers target the number of popular users, instead of one. Small number of users of Mac OS.

Result: Mac OS - Windows: 2-0

Trust level:

Users can move the installation software's files and folders to any location on the hard drive without causing software errors. Mac OS will automatically update the path for shortcuts to correctly point to the new location of the file / folder.

If you do the same thing on Windows, either you have to reinstall the software, or you forget to use the software. Therefore, it is best to leave the original installation location of the software.

Result: Mac OS - Windows: 3-0

Multimedia (Multimedia):

Mac OS offers a large number of applications and hardware that strongly supports music files, images and video editing.

Mac OS supports multimedia better than Windows

Windows is beginning to focus on equipping better multimedia support, but still inferior to Mac OS.

Result: Mac OS - Windows: 4-0

Entertainment - Game:

The number of games for Mac OS is very limited.

Meanwhile, most popular games have Windows versions.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 4-1

Connecting a wide-screen TV:

Most Mac computers cannot connect directly to a widescreen TV, but you need to buy an adapter.

Meanwhile, most Windows-based computers are designed to connect directly to widescreen TVs.

Result: Mac OS - Windows: 4-2

Software compatibility:

Needless to say, you might have guessed that the number of applications for Windows outperformed the number of applications available for Mac OS.

Mac OS has a relatively poor number of applications

As well as popular and popular software today, there are versions for Windows, and a few of which include board sessions for Mac OS.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 4-3

Display:

Apple products are always appreciated for design. Mac OS is also among them.

The interface of Mac OS is always more appreciated than the version of Windows. Although Microsoft is trying to improve the graphics for its new versions of Windows, as well as there are many applications to change the look of Windows, but that's not enough to reach the 'beauty' of the Mac. OS.

Mac OS interface is more beautiful and sleek than Windows

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 5-3

Speed ​​comparison:

When comparing the speed of two operating systems on computers with the same configuration, this is the reference result:

- Average startup time: Mac OS achieves better results, when it took just 28.7 seconds to complete the boot process, while Windows averaged nearly 1 minute.

- The same thing with the average time to shutdown. Mac OS takes about 4 seconds, while Windows takes about 40 seconds to complete.

- The web browser on Mac OS's default browser (Safari) takes about 3.3 seconds. While Windows Internet Explorer takes about 6.3 seconds to complete a web page.

- When activating a heavy application like Photoshop, Mac OS takes only 4 seconds, while Windows takes 5.5 seconds.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 6-3

Compatibility level:

Both Apple and Microsoft have separate platforms for different segments, such as personal computers, tablets, smartphones .

However, Apple's Mac OS can only work on a personal computer platform (like the iMac, MacBook .), and Apple's mobile devices have a separate iOS platform.

Meanwhile, Microsoft already has Windows Phone platform for smartphones but there are still many tablets operating on Windows 7 platform.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 6-4

Price:

Although Microsoft is considered to always put profit on top, and Windows has always been criticized for its high price. But when compared to Mac OS, the price of Windows is still quite inferior.

Not only that, the price of Mac OS devices is much more expensive than Windows devices.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 6-5

Popularity:

At a lower cost, the number of widely supported software is 95% of computers in offices and schools worldwide using Windows.

As of early 2011, Windows accounted for 91.94% of the operating system market share on personal computers (including a combination of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7), while Mac OS accounted for only 6.25%. The rest of the 'piece of cake' belongs to Linux.

Results: Mac OS - Windows: 6-6

Mac OS is like a supercar compared to Windows

These are subjective comparisons. Many people have compared the fun, Windows is a popular car, while Mac OS is a supercar. You can experience the great feeling on Mac OS; however, when you fail, you can really see the value of Windows.

Although the comparison results stop at a draw, however, based on each user's specific needs, you can draw your own comments, to know Windows or Mac OS, Where is the leading platform on personal computers.