- Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mac Os X
- Os X Advantages
- Disadvantages Of Mac Os
- Advantages Of Mac Os X
- As macOS is the second most used operating system and has less number of active users so it has fewer virus attacks also. The other reason of virus safety is its UNIX relationship which is more secure than Windows OS.
- The first release of the new OS — Mac OS X Server 1.0 — used a modified version of the Mac OS GUI, but all client versions starting with Mac OS X Developer Preview 3 used a new theme known as Aqua. Aqua was a substantial departure from the Mac OS 9 interface, which had evolved with little change from that of the original Macintosh operating.
The Family Tree
• BSD
• Mach
• NEXTSTEP
• Earlier Version of the Mac OS
OS X and Darwin
- Port to the command line.
- Provide a graphical user interface (GUI).
What Macintosh Users Expect
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mac Os X
Benefits of Porting to OS X
- stable long-term customer base
- good inroad into education
- powerful developer tools
Responsibilities of Porting to OS X
- An OS X user should never have to resort to the command line to perform any task in an application with a graphical user interface. This is especially important to remember since the BSD user environment may not even be installed on a user’s system. The libraries and kernel environment are of course there by default, but the tools may not be.
- If you are making graphical design decisions, you need to become familiar with the OS X Human Interface Guidelines, available from the Apple developer website. These are the standards that Macintosh users expect their applications to live up to. Well-behaved applications from Apple and third-party developers give the Macintosh its reputation as the most usable interface on the planet.
First we have Windows XP Windows 7. It’s about everything and nothing.
Os X Advantages
Pro’s
- More then 80% of the desktop computers in the world run some sort of Windows operating system.
- You won’t have any trouble finding hardware and drivers.
- You won’t have any problems finding support.
- Most widely supported operating system for games.
- Large shareware and freeware application library.
Con’s
- The most prone operating system for spyware and virus applications.
- You are going to need support.
- General instability due to the shear number of possible configurations.
- Poor security.
- Limited access to the library of free open source software.
Disadvantages Of Mac Os
Second, we have Apple and its OSX operating system. It’s about the content baby.
Since Mac OS X is based on UNIX, most software packages written for BSD or Linux can be recompiled to run on it. Projects such as Fink, MacPorts and pkgsrc provide pre-compiled or pre-formatted packages. Since version 10.3, Mac OS X has included X11.app, Apple’s version of the X Window System graphical interface for Unix applications, as an optional component during installation.[13] Up to and including Mac OS X v10.4 (Tiger), Apple’s implementation was based on the X11 LicensedXFree86 4.3 and X11R6.6. All bundled versions of X11 feature a window manager which is similar to the Mac OS X look-and-feel and has fairly good integration with Mac OS X, also using the native Quartz rendering system. Earlier versions of Mac OS X (in which X11 has not been bundled) can also run X11 applications using XDarwin.
So with OSX you have the entire open source catalog of software open to you plus the native OSX software library. Certainly, lack of software choice is no longer a problem.
The second reason, a lack of hardware support, has pretty much gone away with the introduction of common hardware interfaces such as USB and firewire. It use to be that hardware, such as scanners and digital cameras, all had different hardware interfaces, such as serial and SCSI connections, that required the manufacture to write a driver specifically for for each operating system. Since the introduction of common standards, like USB, the operating system vendor can now write a common driver for all these devices.
An example of this would be my first digital camera which had a serial interface and thus would only work in Windows. My second digital camera connected to my computer using USB. The camera presented itself to the computer as a USB hard drive, which every operating can use. Even though I have upgraded my camera several time since then, that old camera still works with my new Apple Macbook Pro laptop.
Of course you can still find Windows only hardware but, it is getting harder. If you bought your scanner, camera, camcorder, or printer in the last few years there is no technical reason not to consider Apple OSX.
So with the technical reason out of the way, why would you want to consider OSX over Microsoft Windows?
First, it’s just easier to use. Of course this is a subjective statement so I suggest you visit an Apple store and try it for yourself.
Advantages Of Mac Os X
Two, it is more stable. Again that is a subjective statement as well but, it has been my experience and the experience of people who bought Apple systems based on my recommendations, that over all, they are having less support issues. I can personally state that these individuals don’t come to me with questions about how to fix their systems anymore. If they do ask me a question, it is more likely to be related to how to do something new like, how do I create a DVD of my kids using iMovie.
The reasons for this are probably two fold. One, Apple has a higher degree of control over the hardware design of its systems leading to a generally more stable product. Two, OSX’s UNIX base (which has been under development a lot longer than Windows) and UNIX security model lead to a much more stable operating system. You won’t have the virus and spyware problems you are probably use to by now on Windows.