3 Reasons Why Macs Are Still Better Than PCs

1. Reliable sleep mode

The killer feature of every Mac which can’t be underestimated (and you don’t realise how important it is until you own a Mac) is OS X’s 100% reliable, near-instant suspend and resume.
Windows PCs have just never had this. Reliability on Windows is hit and miss, and it’s nowhere near instant. As a result most people are in the habit of shutting down their PC totally — or worse, leaving them on 24/7, chewing up power.
The difference between Mac and Windows in this respect is the difference between broadband and dialup internet. Back in the 90s, many people couldn’t see the point of paying extra for an always-on internet service, as “it only takes a minute to connect using the dialup…”
I always shake my head in bemusement when I read about Microsoft working on dramatically shortening boot time on Windows. Boot time shouldn’t be such a pivotal issue if suspend and resume worked well. Mac users probably reboot their Mac on average about once a month — and often only to install an OS update. Which leads to my second point.

Rebooting a Windows PC can be such a painful experience that you really procrastinate doing it. Unless you’re running on the highest spec hardware, Vista can take minutes to start up.
Mac OS X starts up from a cold boot in about 25 seconds on a current-gen MacBook Pro. As another journalist contributing to the discussion observed, this is not a faked boot speed, where the operating system maker has rushed to get the login window on screen, but delayed loading the rest of the OS. It’s a genuine boot-to-usable-desktop time.

Aside from the operating system, Mac hardware is usually good quality. Apple’s fit and finish doesn’t generally bend and creak like the plastic panels on many PC laptops; Apple’s keyboards are high quality; Apple selects good quality parts like very good LCD panels for its screens.
You can essentially buy a Mac product sight-unseen and know you’ll be happy with the quality of the display, whereas PC laptops are a huge grab bag ranging from horrendous, dim rubbish to spectacular. (I have to admit I personally don’t think the basic MacBook screen is of a quality that I would want to buy, but then, I think it’s still better than a lot of PC notebook screens.)