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Machines starting up faster, while it could be argued, is inevitable. Many software vendors install some sort of start-up software which periodically checks for updates or waits in the background till use. Many do it unnecessarily (why does itunes need a background service to check for updates??). You can control what's running at start-up but that obviously detracts from the usability.
Every PC that has been in family eventually turns into a 5 minute coffee grinder, furiously processing something for that time between pressing the power button and actually getting to do something. Gets old fast. I have no idea why. I don't want to know why. I want to use the thing not give it dynamic psychotherapy.
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Keyboard shortcuts are handled by the software. Its bizarre that a software vendor will use two sets of keyboard shortcuts for the same software on different platforms but if you say so.
They do have different setups. I won't bore you with minutiae but I know what I prefer. Even the OS keyboard shortcuts are better for me in Mac land.
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You can buy a box from the likes of Dell that will fire up and run straight out of the box, and as mentioned before I don’t know what you’re doing to make the PC fall over and implode?? We run servers and workstations that get rebooted 4 times a year for patching and software updates, otherwise they stay on the whole time.
My mother had two Dells and they both went the same way. The first was running XP and turned into a coffee grinder. The second was a Vista machine that she wished she never bought. I tried to convince her to get a Mac because of the last Dell/XP coffee grinder but she feared change. That thing managed to completely stuff itself and lose a fair bit of data with non-hardware related failures. She had a number of phone support sessions with Dell where someone got into the machine via telnet and did things but after the 3rd implosion she bought a Mac. Never been happier because now she can just turn it on and work. Her latest Dell box is here with Linux on it. Unless she has a hardcore net porn addiction she's concealing, as far as I know all she ever did was read emails, tinker with quilt software and Photoshop and surf quilt and dog websites.
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The OS having to contend with thousands of hardware types means the cost is kept low. Again buying from the likes of Dell means you have a system that’s been validated on the OS you want to run and with the volume associated with dell means it will be supported for a fair while.
True, in theory, but not in our experience. In the end, no better than any other PC I think. You still need to be tech savvy or lucky or insulated to stop them grinding to a halt or crashing into the mountain.
