Productivity
Depending on which side of the isle you land on, people tend to say that “their” OS is more conducive to productivity than the other. Here is my experience and my thoughts with both Mac and Windows platforms. Out of the box both Windows 8 and Mac OS X are about equally productive in regards to the basics. Web browsing, text editing (a basic text editor is included on both systems - though I find that Word Pad on MS is slightly more robust than Text Edit on the Mac with one exception – Text Edit will allow you to save as a .doc or .docx while neither Word Pad or Note Pad offer that function). If you play around with photos a little bit, you’re going to be tearing your hair out on a Windows machine out of the box as Windows 8 only offers viewing capabilities and Apple offers iPhoto which is a fairly robust photo editor/enhancer. It’s not Photoshop, by any means, but you can adjust saturation, fix redeye, remove blemishes, desaturate into a B&W image and more. Windows 8.1 offers so