Apple does a great job of, not only securing their devices but also marketing that point. PRO: Traditionally, everyone buys into the concept that security on Macs is better than PCs. They are also important for mindset and how it makes you feel. Those are well-made points and I think we are at a tie because we talking about user experience and overall speed, which are important for productivity and aesthetics. Using a Mac is more difficult in a business setting.
You may also experience other issues if your kids delete or install something. You don’t want to have your personal data cross over into your business side. One example is your photos sync to your iCloud and then the centralized IT has access to all your personal photos.
Things like that become more difficult to help you segregate your business life and personal life. For instance, file sharing, with a Mac, you can share files with everyone, but you can’t set certain permission. You can set different permissions, but there is more difficulty with using these tools in a business setting. It is basically a consumer-grade product. Your employees may not have iCloud accounts and it is not as secure. You can’t just use iCloud to sync everything. You still need to utilize third-party applications. However, when you take that on a business side, it is completely different. When you are using a Mac as a single person or maybe a family, everything is synchronizing nicely using your iCloud accounts. It is also more difficult to use Mac in a business setting. Windows is catching up in the user experience. It’s the apps that drive the user experience and not necessarily the operating system itself. Apple has been trying to get the operating system out of the way for years. This is like what Mac has been doing for all these years.
Plus, Microsoft has been designing the user experience so that the apps are at the center of the experience. Boris has been using a PC since Windows 3.1 days and he is used to all of the quirkiness of it. They feel very similar as far as the design of the user interface.
The Windows 10 operating system (and Windows 11 is coming out soon) is all the things we just mentioned. With Mac, the overall user experience is number one.ĬON: Boris has been using a Mac as well, but not for business stuff. We want to put our hands on that Mac keyboard. PRO: The Mac is (1) easy to use (2) fast and responsive and (3) aesthetically pleasing. In Alex’s personal opinion, Mac wins, but you can make that decision after we are finished presenting both sides. A lot of people use Mac for personal use, but keep a PC for business. Alex is a lifetime-Mac user and Boris is a lifetime-PC user. Here at ArchIT, we provide IT services for AEC firms, supporting both Mac and PC. As such, we get a lot of questions about whether the customer should get a Mac as their next computer.
Are you an architectural professional thinking about using a Mac in your practice? Maybe you are already using a Mac in your practice and feeling lost in a sea of PC users. If so, this episode is for you. Today we will highlight the pros and cons of using Mac in your architecture design or engineering firm practice.