Is it worth to move into Apple Ecosystem?

I and my family are completely into Windows Eco-system. My dad who is not a technical enthusiastic like me, uses his laptop for simple basic uses like ...

1) Surfing internet
2) Online share trading
4) YouTube
5) Some miscellaneous works like working on MS Word, checking emails, online share trading.

He DETEST Windows 8, but finds WP8.1 in his Lumia 1320 fine. Although he was fine with Windows XP and 7. Apart from UI, he face numerous issues with his Sony VAIO laptop, where sometimes, IE doesn't work, system hangs and other basic issues while opening attachment and so on. He is not a technical person, who can install antivirus, anti-spyware and other things to clean the PC himself.

Now my friends and colleagues, who use MacBook pro for iPhone, iPad programming using objective C, told me that MAC OS is better than Windows in following ways

1) Its much more optimized OS than windows in terms of Multi tasking.
2) Applications seldom freeze in Mac Book pro, no matter how many we open in background
3) They say that multi-tasking in MAC is better than Windows.
4) They say that a novice user like my dad will find MAC better and much more user friendly than Windows.

So they say that, if my dad completely moves into MAC Ecosystem, where he will have MBP, an iPhone as a secondary device, he already owns an iPad Retina, it will be beneficial for him. Specially iOS 8 and OSX Yosmite, where you can synchronize emails in all the 3 devices, provided that they are connected together using Bluetooth.

What is your opinion on this? Should I recommend dad to move on to Apple Ecosystem? Will it make his day to day work easier and faster?

 

hard to say, everyone is different, and everyone had different feelings and opinions. I spent almost 30 years on the Apple ecosystem ( Macintosh then later iOS devices ) then moved away from both ( Broadcast video editing, feature film work, architecture and graphics design ). Both have their advantages and disadvantages, as for your questions I will try to answer them one at a time as they pertain to me personally.

not a chance and this was my first shock when I transitioned to windows 7 3 years ago. if you use keyboard shortcuts and use various fast switching as well as multiscreen and multiwindow abilities ( of which Apple is FINALLY starting to catch up on ) windows is in my opinion much better for multitasking. Alt+tab alone is a life saver, as I am a keyboard junkie

seems to depend on a number of factors, if you get consumer laptops with windows full of bloatware and junk I agree, you have a clean loaded machine from a master ISO disk again I find the opposite. in my useage, which granted is extremely heavy I get roughly 5-6 beachballs of doom for every application lockup I receive in Windows 7 or 8.1 ( I hated 8.0 as well )

and right now Yosemite is certainly having its share of revision 0 issues that certainly need addressed, I can not actually keep it stable on my Mac Pro very well.

see number 1 again. can also try running two large applications side by side windowed and see the difference as well.

maybe ... however if he spent a lot of time on windows XP/7 etc it could also confuse the heck out of him as well. everyone is different.

honestly I think his biggest issue is the fact he got a Viao, which like many of HP's consumer models ( as well as others ) is HORRIBLY pre loaded with junk software. depending on his model and driver availability it is quite possible that by downloading a clean ISO image of windows 7 and then using the license key on the bottom of his laptop will rectify all of his issues entirely and make his unit as stable as a current MacBook Pro fairly easily, the downside is he will lose all of the preloaded applications he may or may not have been using in the process.

but for the extreme basic work and what he is used to I see no reason to change it, just fix it properly.

also keep in mind there are a number of free and paid applications that make windows 8.0 and 8.1 look and run like XP and 7, you can literally customize everything.

 

I would say given the usage, almost any OS will do, be it OS X, Windows or Linux. When I had a Mac I liked it as something different, but I didn't find it any better or worse than other OSes. If your dad prefers Windows 7, it's still possible to get a new machine with Windows 7.

 

For your usage, no. It's not worth the expense.

 

Not for me, I am an IT professionan, I can troubleshoot anything, install the whole Windows from scratch, assemble a PC. For dad, who only uses PC for online share trading, checking emails, doing some work on word documents and internet surfing.

From him, even opening windows explorer is a challange, running an antirvirus software or updating a virus defination. He was fine with Windows 7, but this new Metro UI of Windows 8 where there is no start menu, he simply finds it disgusting.

I thought that MAC OS which doesn't need an anti-virus, smooth OS where no application or system will hange, would overcome the problem that he is facing.

 

OS X doesn't hang or crash any more or less often than Windows.

You can also install a program such as StartIsBack to boot to the desktop and have a Windows 7-style start menu. I did this with my parents' desktop and notebook, and they have both been fine with Windows 8.1.

 

I think your dad would be perfectly be fine with a Mac, but I would not say OS X doesn't NEED an antivirus. Viruses on Macs are way less common than on PC's, but I still have an antivirus running and I would recommend that for any computer user, Mac or PC.

 

If he is not a technical person moving from windows to Mac OS will not be a smart thing to do. It'll be a new interface and take him time to learn things. At the end of the day it depends on what you're doing. Video, music, editing. Mac is the way to go. You could always setup a vm with windows with a Mac so that is a plus side.

 

You know, if your dad is just fine with Windows 7, why not keep him there? There's no practical or objective reason to move him to another OS, be it Windows 8.x or OSX (or Linux). He already knows Windows 7 well (I assume), so why make him relearn an OS?

The points that your friends/peers give for OSX don't really have any grounding. There's no such thing as "X is better at multitasking than Y", since all modern desktop OSes can multitask and they do it well (from an objective viewpoint). As for freezing programs, anyone software dev can deliver crap code to any software, so I don't see where the OS comes in play here.