Mountain Lion is Better that Windows 8

In conclusion, I believe Pro has failed to demonstrate that Mountain Lion is better than Windows 8. Pro's main arguments seem to be centered around an Apple-centric view of computing devices. If Windows 8 is capable of supporting Apple devices (such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, etc. ) then this argument is greatly weakened and, ultimately only serves to show that Mountain Lion is very restrictive in the devices is can easily handle (i. e. . you must have Apple devices). With the rise of Android OS and a large market of smart phones, this becomes increasingly less of an advantage. The fact of whether or not Con has ever used Windows 8 or Mountain Lion is irrelevant to the topic. This neither supports nor refutes Pro's view that Mount Lion is better than Windows and is, instead, a direct attack against Con--not the topic at hand. I will now go through Pro's rebuttal statements: Available Hardware - ultimately, Pro concedes that Windows 8 is more flexible than Mountain Lion. Pro also raises the point that the hardware Mountain Lion runs on is specifically tailored to the Mountain Lion OS. While Con agrees that this is a reasonable proposition, Pro has failed to actually demonstrate (with sources) whether or not Mountain Lion OS actually does outperform a Windows Machine. Furthermore, while it is possible that Mountain Lion might outperform Windows 8 on comparable machines (again, Pro has failed to show this), the fact of the matter is that Windows 8 can run on much more powerful machines than Mountain Lion can and if we found benchmarks comparing, for instance a Mac Pro against a suped up gaming machine running Windows 8, Con finds it very difficult to believe that the Mac Pro would outperform Windows 8. Furthermore, if we compare comparably priced machines, users can generally custom build machines that are much more powerful than what Apple can provide for the same money. Con does not see how 3rd party hardware is a negative against Windows 8. Con insists rather, that this is a negative against Mountain Lion OS. As an example, I seriously doubt anyone wants factory (1st party) speakers in their car--they would much rather be able to put in custom, 3rd party speakers. By allowing 3rd party hardware, the user is free to choose anywhere from bottom of the barrel, cheap hardware to state-of-the-art, top-of-the-line, expensive hardware. This option is not available for Mountain Lion users. Apple Devices - Pro concedes that Windows 8 is compatible with many Apple devices. Pro raises one usability feature that supposedly is easier to use with Mountain Lion. In fact, using iCloud, one can automatically update all contacts even using Windows 8. This feature fails to distinguish Mountain Lion from Windows 8. Games - Pro makes a very strong claim but offers no information that Con can use to reasonably concede or refute. In lieu of a source, Con can only make educated guesses as to what software Pro is referencing. Boot Camp - Boot Camp allows for running Windows on a Mac. First, if you want to run Windows, why not get a Windows machine? The fact that Mac is capable of running Windows has nothing to do with the Mountain Lion OS. VM - VM (Virtual Machine) is 3rd party software that creates a Windows virtual machine on top of the Mountain Lion OS. VMs are not ideal for gaming since they require a lot of transcoding and thus any gain that Mountain Lion might offer in terms of having custom hardware goes right out the window and, in fact, will perform much worse than a comparable machine would running Windows. WINE - Wine is very similar to a VM, but instead is a Windows Emulator. First WINE is not part of Mountain Lion, rather is 3rd party software that is available on many platforms (i. e. Linux flavors). Second, emulators are even slower than VMs. So a serious gamer would never choose WINE as an option to play games that require intense hardware support. Backwards Compatibility - If Mountain Lion and Windows 8 are both backwards compatible, then this does not distinguish the two operating systems. Furthermore, Pro concedes that Windows has a much larger base of applications to choose from. Finally, Pro makes the claim that installing software is harder on Windows 8 than on Mountain Lion. I have not found this to be true at all and, in my opinion is subjective depending on the user. Again, someone used to installing software on Windows would probably find it difficult to install software on Mountain Lion and, likewise, someone used to using Mountain Lion might find it difficult to install software on Windows. In terms of Licence Agreements, they are the same. In terms of clicking through, they are the same. Con sees no distinguishing characteristics between installing software on Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8. In the first round Pro presented some instances attempting to show Mountain Lion's superiority. These included usability, which was unsubstantiated and subjective, ability to sync with Apple devices, which Pro conceded Windows 8 can also do thus failing to distinguish the two operating systems, and price which Pro has essentially dropped since it was not addressed in Round 2. I was able to show in round 1 that these claims were either subjective or that they did not distinguish Windows 8 from Mountain Lion. Furthermore, I presented a case showing that Windows 8 has quite a few advantages over Mountain Lion. In Round 2, Pro's arguments became quite a bit weaker. Instead of attempting to prove that Mountain Lion was superior, they were forced into arguing that Mountain Lion is at least as good as Windows 8. The only claims leftover after Round 2 that support the idea that Mountain Lion is better is that Mountain Lion has custom made hardware and thus performs better--this was unsubstantiated. The only other argument that attempted to show Mountain Lion's superiority was that Mountain Lion has a better sync feature than Windows 8. I was able to show that Windows 8 has the same capability and thus this does not distinguish the two operating systems. In conclusion, at best Pro has demonstrated that Mountain Lion is capable of doing everything Windows 8 can. This does not support the claim that Mountain Lion is better than Windows 8, rather that they are equivalent. Furthermore, I believe I have made a very strong case for the opposite, which is that Windows 8 is, in fact, better than Mountain Lion. Pro concedes that Windows 8 offers more hardware options and more applications. Pro did not present evidence to suggest Mountain Lion running on a stock machine could perform better than Windows 8 running on a customized machine. Pro's argument about gaming on Mountain Lion fails to show Mountain Lion is better than Windows 8 and, again at best, only shows that it's as good. In fact, I showed that Mountain Lion is worse for gaming, even if the user is able to install software that allows them to play games.