Hello internet, Jawad here. I use an HP laptop at home that runs Windows 10 as its OS. However my high school has iMacs that run the latest version of MacOS, 10.12 Sierra. I've gotten used to using Windows 10 as my primary OS but it seems like I'll be using MacOS more along side Windows.
So one of the main differences between Windows OS and MacOS is that MacOS runs on computers manufactured by Apple while Windows OS is popularly run by many PCs. But something not many people may know is that MacOS runs on a UNIX base, making the OS very stable. Windows OS's design is based on IBM microprocessors. A notorious difference between the two is Macs cost more than PCs, with PCs running Windows costing 40% less on average. When using the actual operating systems there is a noticeable difference. From my own experience Windows 10 has some aspects of the user friendliness of the older Windows 7 OS and brings back touchscreen features from Windows 8. The current MacOS is less cluttery look to it. At the bottom is a dock. I can access all my frequently used and/or favorite application from there. There is also a task bar to the top making it easy to do things like quitting applications that might make your computer run slower. I found the GUI of the MacOS to be more user freindly despite Windows 10 having some aspects of the user freindliness of Windows 7.
There are more differences between MacOS and Windows OS but they don't concern me much since I'll be using MacOS at school for different things than I use Windows OS at home. But one difference that may concern others is that Macs can't run too many games since only a few are made for it. I won't be using the iMacs at school for gaming because that's not what I'm supposed to do but for the gamers out there Macs don't run many games. Windows is more gamer friendly and I use my laptop at home to play some PC games when I get the time. Macs have fewer software choices too but that shouldn't matter to me since my school has all the software I'll be needing for my course on the Macs already. I'm also not going download any additional software since students are not allowed to do that for obvious reasons. One last difference between the two OS is that Windows OS is more venurable to viruses. Yep, that's why I have cyber security software installed on my laptop.
Some more differences that do concern me are keyboard shortcuts. Macs and PCs have different shortcuts. I will be using shortcuts a lot in my Visual Design course so I thought I'd run down a list of a few key shortcut differences.
Control-Alt-Delete: On a PC ctrl-alt-delete brings up a security window. In this window you can do things like changing users or locking the computer. On a Mac you have various shortcuts that allow you to perform the same functions.
- Ctrl-Command-Eject to restart
- Ctrl-Option-Command-Eject for immediate shut down
- Shift-Command-Q to log out user
Control-Shift-Escape: On a PC Ctrl-Shift-Esc pulls out the task manger window. The Mac equivalent is the force quit menu and to access it you have to do Command-Option-Esc
Print Screen: On a PC you can take snapshots of your screen by using the Prt Sc button. Various shortcuts can do the same thing on a Mac.
- Shift-Command-3 takes a full snapshot
- Shift-Command-4 takes a screenshot of a selected area
- Shift-Command-4-Space takes s snapshot of a selected window
- Ctrl-O is Command-O to open a file
- Ctrl-N is Command-N to open a new document
- Crtl-A is Command-A to select all text on a document
- Ctrl-C is Command-C to copy
- Ctrl-X is Command-X to cut
- Ctrl-V is Command-V to paste
- Ctrl-P is Command-P to print
- Ctrl-S is Command-S to save
Well anyways those are the key differences between Windows OS and MacOS and I hope that was helpful to those wondering about the differences.
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