Peter Moriarty: I want to talk about Chrome versus windows
versus Mac. And this is like the big one, if you're a business
owner, and you're concerned about cost, or security, and
you're interested in a smarter way of working with your
machines, well consider Chrome OS, this is really the best way
to keep your machines integrated with your Google workspace
account. And Chrome OS is a great way for business owners
and consumers to work. Now, the reason that I'm presenting this
is customers come to us all the time. And they say, Hey, I'm
using everything in the Google world. And I'm thinking about a
Chromebook. But I just don't know whether or not it's going
to work and what things I might miss about my Windows machine,
what things I might miss about my Mac. And so this video, I'm
going to try and cover most of the things that I know that are
the most obvious reasons that you would pick working with some
of the different operating systems that you have access to.
Now myself, personally, I switched to a Chrome Device over
five years ago, and I never looked back. And this is a very
different version of myself, very different version of
myself, where I actually had bought a Mac hard drive nearly
five grand on a Mac. And I ended up taking it back and returning
it to Apple, because it really didn't do much more than an $800
Chromebook that I had at the time. And so I switch back to a
Chromebook. And basically, I never went back from them. Now,
interestingly, in the year 2020, Chromebooks have now just
outsold Macs worldwide. And this is pretty darn interesting,
because previously, it was known that they were ordered, they
were already outselling in the education space. So chromosome,
Chromebooks were out selling other Mac computers and other
other machines in the space of education alone. But worldwide
now, Chromebooks actually outsold Macs, which is pretty
darn amazing. And so you can see the market share is now starting
to shift. And to me, this kind of looks like the early days of
Chrome as a web browser, which eventually went on to take over
Firefox and take over engine Explorer, and then absolutely
dominate, I think it's still about 60 to 70%, of the total
global browser market. So let's talk about some of the
advantages to using Windows some of the reasons why you may
choose to work with a Windows operating system for your
business environment, or for yourself personally. Well,
number one is the range of peripherals and the range of
accessories. There are more things that work with Windows
than work with other operating systems. And so you have more
flexibility. I know myself, personally, I do a lot of
streaming online. And one of my streaming setups actually relies
on a Windows based computer, because I use a bunch of input
cards, and they just don't work on Macs, or to run it on a Mac
would be insanely expensive, because I'd have to buy a
$15,000 Mac Pro. So that's one thing on the windows count. But
to be honest, because so many people have bought Macs in the
last 10 years, most applications and most hardware peripherals
now work with at least Mac's as well. And Chromebooks have
pretty darn good support for most peripherals to the big one,
really, for Windows, though, is integration with the rest of the
Windows operating system and the Microsoft suite of tools. So if
you're a business who's primarily relying on Microsoft
Office, and you like the Windows versions of those, that's
probably going to be the one reason that's going to keep you
in the windows world. Now, personally, obviously, we're a
company that uses Google. And so everything we do is in Google
Drive and in Google Docs, and so we're just not really needing
anything to do with the Microsoft System. But if you're
someone who's really wedded to using your Outlook, and you're
not ready to make the switch over to Gmail, if you are have
looked at some of our other videos, we've got a steps on
that. But that's one of the reasons why you may choose to
stick around. Next up for Windows is gaming, and Windows
has a better range. It's more popular, better support for
games, and just in general, better support for drivers on
graphics cards. And so gaming is another reason why someone would
really choose to stick with Windows as their as their
primary machine. Now, there are pretty cool options coming to
Macs, there's a Steam Store on the Mac. And so a lot of games
have been ported over to Mac OS because of the popularity on the
consumer market. And also Google has released Google stadia,
which is a streaming platform, which will stream down to
Chromebooks. So you do have options for games on Chrome and
on Macs, but not quite as good as Windows. Now one of the major
downsides to Windows would be the version control. And this is
the thing that really bugs me about Microsoft in general,
every couple of years, there's a new major version. And you know,
this is true for Macs as well, but just not quite to the same
extent of frustration. And what happens is you have to go
through the big upgrade process. Same thing with Microsoft
Office, every couple of years, there's a new version that
you've got to install. And you've got to go through a whole
upgrade process. Now working in the Google world, we just don't
have to worry about that Chromebooks update every four to
six weeks. And so they're always automatically on the latest
version. Next up, you have things like your Google Docs,
and Google Drive, which are all just always running the latest
version, because Google runs them on the web, so you just
never have to worry about anything happening with those.
So they're the reasons you may choose windows. Let's talk about
some of the reasons you may choose a Mac.
Now first up, Mac's are the best Add multimedia if you're doing
any kind of video editing, if you're doing hardcore photo
editing, really Mac's tend to be the place where it is preferable
for most artists to work. Now, I know that most creative
applications are also available on Windows, if you want to run
Photoshop, there's a Windows version. If you want to run
audio apps, there's usually a Windows version as well,
although Macs are known for their stability in the operating
system. And so if you're a DJ live on set, and you want to run
some kind of live production software, keyed into a mixing
desk, then you're probably going to find yourself working with a
Mac over windows. The next thing that's great about Max is the
interoperability between different devices. Basically,
your work automatically synchronizes. And through the
apple ecosystem and iCloud, you've got one great experience
of everything basically being in the same place. And not only
that, but just in general, the ecosystem of devices means that
everything plays really nicely together. And so you'll have
things like, if you've got a call on your phone, you can
switch that call to your desktop computer, or you can answer the
call on your desktop computer. If you've got something that
you've cut and pasted on your iPad, you can flick that from
your computer to your phone and back. Again, if you make a note
on your phone, it's going to appear on your other devices.
And basically, when a call comes in, all your devices will ring
simultaneously. And that's really the beauty about Mac is
you've got that one fluid ecosystem, if you've got a set
of air pods, you can go between your phone and your computer
seamlessly. And everything just works, you don't have to mess
around with different Bluetooth devices trying to link or re
link them. It just all works in one hit. And so that's probably
the best reason that Macs are a popular choice, though, there's
one big downside to working with Mac's and that is their price.
This is literally a golden apple don't sell this, this is in here
as a joke. This is literally a gold plated MacBook Air, which I
think is 15 or $20,000. But Macs come with a price tag. And I
mentioned earlier that I had a Mac that I spent over 4000
Australian dollars on that I returned for a Chromebook
because I was more than happy to get my work done in Chrome. So
let's talk about Chrome and some of the advantages of working
with Chrome OS. Other the other operating systems, if you're
choosing a new machine, First up, we have the ability for
Chrome to do most of its heavy lifting on the web. And what
that means is you get a faster machine because it's not doing
all of the crunching on the local computer. And that has a
number of advantages. Number one, if you're using Google
documents, or your work is automatically saved and backed
up, so you never have the issue of getting two hours into a
document, having a computer crash and then corrupting or
losing the file. You don't have to mess around with things like
you would need to on a Windows or a Mac computer like Dropbox
like working on a file saving and Dropbox and waiting for it
to synchronize to someone else. When you're working on a Google
doc or any of the Google suite of applications in the web.
Everything is instantly saved and works immediately. Because
of that advantage, you have much better performance on all Chrome
devices, they just work much better, it means they're stable.
And it means they're fast. Because basically, you're not
having to worry about all of the local machine using its heavy
resources. Google's supercomputers are doing all the
work in the background. And what does that result in? Well, much
better battery life, all day battery life, and seriously
seriously impressive battery life from machines that are
quite affordable. So finally, security and the protection of
viruses, protection of malware, these are the kind of things
that right now don't really exist on Chrome OS, they will
over time start to become more of a challenge. And as more
people use Chrome OS, you can see it's outselling Mac's now.
So it's more of a target, they will be more opportunities for
you know, hackers and people who are trying to steal your
information to build applications that may find their
way into Chrome OS, although most of the security breaches
that happen around Chrome OS are just really tricking you to do
things on the web. And that's something that the operating
system itself can't control. Each Chromebook has a secure
hardware chip. And that secure hardware chip stops any
malicious code from running on the device. And they're
basically completely locked down to the Google ecosystem. And on
a Chromebook because you don't have access to the back end of
the operating system, you pretty much only get a Chrome browser
and a file browser and whatever other apps that you install on
there, it's a very, very secure way of working with your device.
Now finally, one of the best advantages of working with
Chrome is that they are manageable for a company. And so
if you're a business using Google workspace, you can use
the admin panel to set up literally one of hundreds of
different policies for all of your Chrome devices. And they
just get delivered via the web. So you don't have to worry about
things like servers or installing, you know, active
directory or anything like that. Basically, your policies get set
up inside your Google account, and then they get automatically
pushed down. live via the cloud to all of your Chrome devices,
which means management is an absolute breeze.