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Why my Mac OSX experience isn’t any better?

I have been asked dozens of times why I have not made the switch to a Mac for years. So when I bought a Mac a couple months ago, I thought all those “benefits” one gets from using a Mac (and OS X for that matter) will be put to test.

No Viruses. It has not been a problem for me in the last few years while running on Windows (I no longer use any anti-virus) so I don’t think it will be a problem on the Mac.

No Computer Crashes. I have had more crashes and computer freeze on my Macbook Air in a month than I’ve had in my Windows 7 laptop in 12 months. And I’m not exaggerating. Good thing there’s no blue screen of death here though — the Mac just gracefully exits.

Mac Energy Saver. The Mac has one of the best power saving features I’ve seen. I very seldom shut down the machine and always rely on sleep mode. But it’s not always a walk in the park. Like my Windows PC, I experienced my Mac not going to sleep after closing the lid. A few hours later, after fishing it out of the sleeve, I discovered it’s still running with the internal fan humming like crazy and heating up like it could cook a pancake.

I originally thought mine’s an isolated case but two other people I convinced to get the same exact MacBook Air had similar problems, though much less frequent than mine.

I guess I was just expecting too much from an OSX machine (my previous machine is an Acer Timeline which has lower specs than the Air). I love the hardware of my Macbook Air (see full review here). I even recommended it to a lot of people and I will still recommend it. I think it’s OS X that I am having issues with. Maybe I should just reformat and install Windows 7 instead.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

68 Responses

  1. Avatar for angelo angelo says:

    I also experienced your problem, I have about 5~7 crash on macos than win7 running on booth camp. I got the mbp 2011 edition. macos could run for about 6~7 hours if you only surf the web and not downloading anything. on win7 it registers about 4~5 hours no matter how minimal your computing may be. but I find win7 is more stable than mac os,5~7 on my mac for a week, but when Im running bootcamp(win7) I find it much stabler. even running games.

    I find myself waiting for the spinning rainbow wheel to much, while on win7 it was fine as long as you keep it up to date.

    its funny because macosx is designed to run on apple devices while win7 is designed to run on most devices but find it much stabler running win7 on apple notebook.

    I am using computer for more than 15 years, and just bought a mac 2 months ago and I have more crashes on my mac than my previous laptop even Sum it all up(clone desktop,ibm,hp,acer,compaq,lenovo).

  2. Avatar for adam adam says:

    My bro owns a Mac so far wala naman sya reklamo. Nagustuhan ko sa mac is yung battery life.

  3. Avatar for Arvin Arvin says:

    I am a Mac user for 12 years. Yun ang gamit namin sa office. Pero pag bibili ako PC ang choice ko. MAC kasi ang mahal, at halos mga games na gusto ko ay pang PC. Ang hirap din maghanap ng softwares, drivers, etc. na pang mac.

  4. Avatar for allan allan says:

    I’m not a mac user so I planned to buy my first macbook pro maybe within the next month, only to experience the OSX…i just read the rumors that Macbook Pro will be updating in mid-april… so should I wait for the updated MBP or I just rush to buy it beacuse I can’t wait?

  5. Avatar for alex alex says:

    ive got a macbook air for a year and a half now and lately i have experienced difficulties when online. whenever i use iphoto it freezes after awhile of using . other application also crashes all of the sudden when used like ym. by the way, i also dont know why my microsoft doesnt load when hit. the icon is there though.

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