Why on earth are there people still using Windows!?
I lived my professional life in the business world where 99.9% of the systems were (and still are) Windows and networked PC based. I cut my teeth on DOS 1.0 and single floppy disk systems! LOL
I’ve wondered the same thing about why people would pay twice the price for the same computing power in an essentially handcuffed system as regards user upgrades to the system. Especially since my primary photo tools are identical on either platform. This is especially my sense with the beer keg Mac that is elegant looking for sure (until you connect something to it - then it looks like a cat that has been disembowled). And where laptops are concerned, my brand new Dell XPS 15 has equal or better specs than the equivalent Mac Book for about 2/3 of the price.
I know this is probably sample bias since most here appear to be Apple users, but for the most part, I see way more OS incompatibility issues on the Apple side than with Windows. For instance, the broken color management issue a year or so ago that took a couple of months to resolve. And I actually get a kick out of all the discussion of whether OS Chipmonk, is upgradable from OS Unicorn and whether OS Fairydust works with this or that peripheral.
This issue w/ enhanced details is the first time in my use of a PC OS (going back to my original IBM PC) that my OS has been incompatible with an Adobe product update.
For the most part, I’m agnostic. If someone wanted to give me a nice Mac Book I’d certainly use it and appreciate it. I do just enough teaching and sharing re “things photographic” that I have to be at least a little conversant with both platforms. I have and love iPhones and iPads and find that they integrate seamlessly with my PC’s vis synching email, contacts, calendars, etc. All in all it’s a nice world we live in where personal computing is so darn powerful and convenient.
Rand