Mac or Windows for school purposes?

Which OS has more benefits and why? Is it worth it to have a Mac for one of the long to have a good notebook and work well, ie can edit Office Pictures movies etc?

Where are the differences?

For the price of a Mac, you get a gaming PC or gaming laptop. I would rather take something like that and you have more of it. In addition, the software offering for Windows is larger.

On Windows you can just as well use Office, edit pictures and videos.

If you really need Microsoft Office, you get cheap here: https://www.rakuten.de/produkt/microsoft-office-2016-home-and-student-vollversion-2304535810?cid=adwords&sclid=a_google_de_pla_empty_m133275_DE_2304535810_ This is the Home & Student version. This license is only for home users, students, trainees and students and not for commercial purposes. Consists of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. That's just the product key. You get it together with the download link by e-mail after payment sent. After installation and activation, this license will be stored in your Microsoft account. If you need to reinstall, it will be automatically re-enabled through the Microsoft account. Keep this product key well, you need it if you need to reinstall it.

Or you install the free libreoffice: https://de.libreoffice.org/...ffice.org/

As an image editor you can use the free GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/....gimp.org/ The current version now supports the CMYK color space. The finished images I would save in PNG format. This is a lossless compressed image format. GIMP can be extended with many plugins, if the functionality is not sufficient.

For video editing and editing, I can recommend the free OpenShot: https://www.openshot.org/de/ This can handle video up to 4k resolution and can also use the hardware acceleration of Nvidia and AMD graphics. A Youtube upload function is also integrated. Despite the large range of functions, the operation is clear.

For vector graphics I recommend the free Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/de/

For desktop publishing, I recommend the free Scribus: https://sourceforge.net/...e/download Scribus requires Ghostscript: https://github.com/...926w64.exe Install first.

As for dealing with the data, ie the more or less gentle compulsion to outsource everything in the cloud, but also the idea to almost oblige the user to buy all the programs in-house onlinestore etc. MacOS and Windows are somehow always Similarly.

most of the programs you'll need will probably work for Mac OS and Windows.

would you now do something very specialized, where you can CAD software is needed, e.g. EPLAN, SolidWorks etc, or compiler for PLC etc. Then I would genrell advise to windows.

Otherwise, for me, the price is the decisive argument, but rather to stay with windows.

Unless of course you have in the family already a number of apple devices such as iphones etc. Then it would be worth considering, because firstly, the handling is better used, and 2) within the home network can do a lot more.

Just a throw-in, because so often with the argument "for the price of a Mac you get…" was argued.

Recently, I was informed about Macbooks (Gift). They have very good hardware throughout. An equivalent notebook with Windows (searched for Notebooksbilliger) is not priced in any other order of magnitude.