Mac vs. PC - Time Machine

Watch the following (It's a Mac vs. PC commercial based on Time Machine)

Imagine, your PC computer crashed, you have not updated your computer recently and you have no copy of the information your computer held.  Now imagine, your MAC computer crashed, you have not updated your computer recently... BUT all of your computer information has been automatically backed up your computer using an application called Time Machine.  Well, this is what this commercial is based on, Time Machine.


All Mac's come with Time Machine, but it is the users choice to have it on or off.  Obviously it would be a bright idea to have it on because if your computer does for some reason crash, then whether you backed it up previously or not, there will always because a copy of you computers information on Time Machine.

Now, just because Time Machine is available it would still be a bright idea to back up your computer because you may have had your Time Machine off, therefore it wouldn't have backed up anything.

Even though Time Machine may take up quite a bit of memory, it is better to have it then to not because you will always have a back up of your computer.  Even if you delete a file and realize later that file is actually very valuable to you, then you can always go to Time Machine and find it.  Whenever you delete a file, your computer will always keep the file stored in Time Machine.  Also when deleting your History in Safari or Fire Fox, Time Machine will always keep a record of those websites you visited, just incase you want to go back and visit them in the future.

Well, that concludes this blog. Remember, always have Time Machine on, with Time Machine you will have everything you have ever done on your Mac all backed up.

Happy New Year everyone!

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Foolish. Stay Hungry" Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Restarting

Watch the following (It's a Mac vs. PC commercial based on restarting computers)

This commercial is showing how PC often crashes or has to restart on a regular basis.  The main reason as to why they crash or have to restart continuously is because they often have to much 'stuff' on their hard drives.  Often PC has to restart their computers because of the sheer amount of volume of documents on their computers.

Apple makes sure that they have small hard drives that contain only what a mac needs and nothing more.  By having extra things on your hard drive there is a bigger risk of your computer crashing because it cannot obtain that much memory.  Also Mac's have this application called Time Machine.  If you set your computer up with this application it will automatically update and back up your computer every hour.  By doing so, if for some unknown reason your computer crashes and you have not backed it up for a long time, then Time Machine would have backed it up for you.

Unfortunately, PC does not have an application like this.  Therefore PC often has more crashes occurring and therefore, more information on their computers is lost, unless the user has backed up their computer.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Elimination

Watch the following (It's a Mac vs. PC commercial based on Legal Copies)

This commercial shows that when you want to get an upgrade on a PC, the amount of legal copies will increase.  Basically you can't just get a PC, upgrade it and receive little amount of legal fees.  You need to go through the legal copies, and trust me, there is a lot of them.  As shown in the commercial, the amount of legal copies will increase each time you get an upgrade with PC's. For Mac's however the amount of legal copies is minimal.  When you get a small or big update, the amount of legal copies with not increase with Macs.

Apple makes sure that when you have to look at there legal copies, they are easy to read and understand.  No one wants to go through and read pages of legal copies that in the end make so sense.  For PC's depending on how big the upgrade is will depend on how much legal copies there are. To conclude that:

- Mac upgrades: BIG/SMALL upgrade = same amount of legal copies
- P.C upgrades: BIG/SMALL upgrade = different amount of legal copies depending on the size

Now-a-days people don't even bother to read legal copies if they are to large, lets face it, they are to long and boring.  People just want a quick and easy legal copy to read before they upgrade so they understand what will happen to their computer.

Mac will provide short, easy, and simple legal copies that only give you information that you need, not any extra information which is pointless to you.  PC legal copies tend to mumble on random stuff that does not make sense to the average human being.

Therefore Apple has made the process of dealing with legal copies a lot more 'enjoyable' than PC, since they are easy reads and you are only given the information needed in a small package.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Elimination

Watch the following (It's a Mac vs. PC commercial based on elimination of PC's)

This commercial is based on how PC manufactures many computers but none of them can function all that well.  They usually contain viruses and crash often.  The problem with PC is that they produce so many computers but not all of there computers can't function well enough to last a long time.

With Apple computers they are fast, sufficient and don't carry any viruses.  Before Apple sends out any of there products, they make sure that all viruses have been removed from the computer systems.  In this commercial, you may have noticed that when the lady said she doesn't want viruses, headaches and crashes, all the PC's left.  This is because during the PC security check stage they do not get rid of all the viruses, they may think they do, but obviously they don't according to this commercial and personal experiences.

In general, Mac is a lot more safer than PC's because they do not contain any viruses.  With Mac products, it will be assured that your computer will be fast and efficient without crashing or causing any problems.  PC may tell you the same story but the problem with them is there computers often crash because of the high tech speed and such.  PC has not yet developed a computer than can obtain the standards of a fast computer.  PC's often crash because of the fast speed of there computers and the lack of memory which the computer cannot hold.  Overall, Mac's have come up with a way to keep their speed and efficiency in there computers, but they also obtained not letting any viruses enter their computer and not so many crashes either.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Stuffed Hard Drives

What the following (It's a Mac vs. PC commercial and is based on Stuffed Hard Drives)

This video is based on how Mac can pack in so many things into their computer system, but still keep there hard drive small and compact.  This advert is showing PC enlarged because it has so many things jammed into it.  When PC adds new appliances to their computers, there hard drive tends to get bigger, which tends to increases the size of the computer

When you look at Apple's products, they are all very thin, strong and compact, but at the same time they hold a lot of memory.  Even thought there products are so thin and light, they have a very long lasting battery life.  On PC's when you download something, you end up downloading a whole package of something which slows down the battery life.  With Mac's it is a pick and choose system.  If you want to download one application, that is all you will download unless you download a few other things along with it.  With PC's you have to end up downloading a few other things in order to download the one application you want.

Lastly, Mac's come with all the general applications you need such as iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes etc, and as it says in the advert, this is all apart of iLife. When you want to download extra applications you can do that whenever you want and download exactly what you want without downloading a bunch of other unwanted applications, much like what PC does.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Networking

Watch the following (it is a Mac vs. PC Commercial and is based on networking)

This video is showing how Apple products is able to be interconnect and understand other countries.  Again, as all the Mac vs. PC Commercials are, they are very biased and again, they are TRUE!  When you receive any product from the Apple Store, it comes installed with Language settings etc and they are easy to find.  On the other hand however, PC doesn't make it so easy to change the settings of languages.

Mac can provide every language presently used in the world built into there products.  They ensure that Apple products will please every single user.  There language options help there customer satisfactory thrive.  They also provide language translation that comes with the computer on there widgets.  Because of there excessive language functions there are able to connect with all Apple companies all over the world and discuss certain issues.

Because Apple includes all of their language settings built into there products it expands the amount of social networking and makes it easier for people to interconnect with many people all over the world.  Any computer can do this, but Apple makes it even easier with there language settings already built into there systems.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish"  Steve Jobs

Mac vs. PC - Security

Watch the following (it is a Mac vs. PC Commercial and is based on the security of Macs and PC)

Although these commercials are very biased they are also very true.  PC does have a lot of security problems.  There are often tabs popping up on the screens asking you questions and warning you about viruses approaching.  This can become very frustrating and annoying.  PC may be cautious about viruses, but the way they display and prevent there viruses is not very practical.

Apple does not carry any viruses because of their high tech systems, they found a way to prevent viruses from entering Apple products.  They ensure before anything is sent out to the Apple shops that all viruses have been dealt with and taken away from the Apple products system.  For example, there was an instance with the ipad 2.  It was sent out for shipping and whilst it was being shipped a virus was found.  Therefore all of the shippings of the ipad 2's were cancelled and sent back to the Apple Headquarters.  The virus was removed from the ipads and they were then sent out for shipping again.  This shows that Apple ensures before they send anything out that all the viruses are taken care of.

Because of Apple's high tech computerizing systems, there customer satisfactory is excellent.  It is great having a computer, but having a computer and knowing nothing will harm it is even greater and that is why I believe Apple is one of the safest networking systems in the world.

- Apple vs. PC
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Steve Jobs

Apple vs. PC - OS X Lion

      The majority of my blogs will be based on the Apple vs. PC commercials, but just the other day, Apple came out with a new operating system called OS X Lion which I have just recently downloaded onto my mac and it is great.

      One of the updates that is included on OS X Lion is the multi-touch trackpad.  You can view mission control, switch between open apps, two-finger scroll, tap to zoom, pinch to zoom, and swipe to navigate.  All of this can be done with the trackpad, no keyboard short cuts.  Without OS X Lion, none of this was possible, you would have to use keyboard short cuts or go the long route and not use any short cuts at all.

      Accessing everything you have open is made really easily with OS X Lion.  Before OS X Lion, hot corners were what was made to access different apps easily on different desktops.  Now with OS X Lion you can use Mission Control and you will have all of your apps open available for you to see.  You can see all of your desktops and your dashboard that you have open and see what is in them.  You can move different apps to different desktops and rearrange the order of them.  By having Mission Control you can have a birds-eye view of  everything running on your mac and it makes it easier to control apps.

      When you download OS X Lion, the majority of your apps are updated.  Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, iLife, iMovie and much more.  You even get FaceTime meaning you can call and actually see other people who own an apple product such as Macs, Desktops, iPod touch, iPhone etc.  Whether you FaceTime between a iPhone and a mac you can still use it.  The updates within all of the apps makes them run faster and smoother than they did before.  If you are using something like Microsoft Word, OS X Lion saves the document for you if you don't save it.  Meaning if Microsoft Word quits and you didn't save your document, you will have a copy of it because it was saved by OS X Lion.

      Security is a key point that you would want on your computer.  OS X Lion prevents you from going onto sites that can pass on viruses.  Even though Apples don't get viruses, prevention from these bad sites is safer because you stay away from the bad things out on the web.  There is also parental control.  If you are worried about your kids visiting any un-safe websites, OS X Lion can send you an update about what websites your child has been on.

      Compatibility is a key component of all macs.  By having a compatible computer, such as a mac, you can access windows and even move all of your files form a PC to a mac if you were thinking about changing computer companies.

      Lastly, voice over is something that is new to the mac from OS X Lion.  You can say commands to your mac such as:

- What time is it?
- What day it it?
- Open Safari
- Close Safari
- Hide Safari
- Go to apple.com

      Those are just a few of the voice commands that you can say.  This facilitates the blind or the people who can't see as well, because they will be able to hear the descriptions of what is going on in there mac.  For example, voice commands can read this whole blog to someone by highlighting selected texts and pressing:

command - shift - s

You can choose the language and the accent of the reader by going onto System Preferences.

That sums up my review on OS X Lion and for more information on OS X Lion, visit:

      http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is/

      It costs $29.99 and the money is well worth it for what you get out of it.  It almost feels like you have a brand new mac.