MAC ? PC ?
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- mrdobolina0
open a raw digital photo on a 2Ghz pc and then on a 1Ghz mac. there's your difference. Although I use both, they are only tools.
- unknown0
mrdobolina.... i open up raw digital photos several times a day on my mac 1ghz G4.. and on my pc at work which is a 2ghz Compaq running Win2k pro. No difference...
- lnu0
I'm mostly using a PC but I have this iBook too. It has OS 9.2 so I don't know anything about how OSX works but these little things about mac annoy me. For example:
If you want to select something in a long list (e.g. what country you're from), why can't you just type the first letter in the word to scroll the list to that word? You can on windows.
Why cant you select button (for example in a dialog window) with the tab key? Is there some other way to do it?
In a menu on a pc (for example the start menu) you can right-click on a higher level in the menu and get the usual popup menu; is there a way to do this on a mac?
Well, I don't know if you understood that lst one but overall the pc is more innituniutiveive than the mac, and I like doing stuff with the keyboard rather than the mouse and I have found that the mac hardly ever supports this.
What did I miss?
- mrdobolina0
might just be our systems here then.
- unknown0
PC for sure. they say apples dont crash as often, but thats only b/c they arent doing as many tasks as a PC can. if the entire world ran on a MAC, we'd be in a whole heap of trouble. which is why i laugh at Initech on Office Space when peter is using a mac for the 2000 switch.
- paulrand0
my impression has always been, and still is, that the mac is the overwhelming choice for print design, in terms of compatibility with service bureaus, printers and publications. But maybe I'm living in the past.
- mitsu0
"why does a 2ghz pc see little or no difference between it and a 1ghz mac?"
well because, the operating system is geared towards the hardware itself. think about the inferior system specs of the ps2 and the impressive games like MGS2. with pc's, ms doesn't know your hardware specifics and had to engineer their OS accordingly. however, as a mac owner, you paid a prettier penny for your 1Ghz powerhouse than the pc owner did for his 2Ghz (especially if the pc owner built the machine him/herself).
regardless, both mac and pc are tools that each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
either or is not always the only option when you can have both ;)
- mrdobolina0
apply the brand loyalty to mac to any other product and it really is ridiculous, again I use both.
- ribit0
lnu... I think every one of those features is on the Mac, or something similar... but it uses totally different keys... you need to read the Help.
The few cool things on Windows that are missing can usually be added on using 3rd party programs... a good example of add-ons for OSX: http://www.unsanity.com
- BonSeff0
i know 1 really cool thing a pc can do that a mac cant, and i really miss it, cause im on a mac now
- k0na_an0k0
ya know.... my preferance is a mac but as a good well rounded designer (check my site to see for yourself) i feel as though i need to work on both. i.e. for cross platform issues, clients who only have one type of system, things like that. i love itunes for mac, but i love the availability to burn a cd and still work on a pc.
i'm leaning towards macs though for a number of reasons including coolness factor.
- lvl_thirteen0
you can burn a cd on a mac and still work on other things is osx...but i remember when you couldn't, and that did suck
- lnu0
isn't mac sorta gay?
*hides under desk*
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| :) |No but seriously, how do you do that list-scrolling thingy on a mac? On a PC it's so simple, so logical.
- ribit0
I remember Navigator 1.0 and thinking 40MB of RAM was way cool...
- unknown0
i use both..... but get more enjoyment out of my mac. i have a home network with two pc's and a mac powerbook g4 . it does have its advantages when wanting to see how different systems render designs.
- ribit0
list scrolling? tab to the list... type letter... same as Windows isn't it?
- jpea0
basically a couple things to consider here:
macs and pc's now are pretty much able to do the same tasks as each other. it almost comes down to personal preference and whether you'd like the interface of the machine.... if it makes you work more efficiently, go for it then.
Print: more print shops tend to want files on a mac formatted zip disk, mac fonts if it's not a PDF, etc... so i guess the gripe there is from the print shops.
Web: pretty equally frustrating because
A: if you're designing on a mac you work with the limitations of the browsers on that platform, while on a pc you're always working to fix the limitations created by mac browsers;-)
B: for development work, it's nice to have both so you can test all your stuff on either Apache (OS X) with php, or IIS with asp (Win2k/XP). Both are benefits to their respective platforms.Bottom line, go with what you like. The computer isn't going to make your work any better, although it might make you more productive, thus able to create work more effectively.
- h0
xp is very stable from my experience, and im sure osx performs just as admirably. but don't let the numbers fool you... whatever the ghz, you're still paying much less for a pc that runs faster.
- unknown0
yeah, that's true about the speed thing... we have a couple of xp machines here at work, and my wife's desktop is xp. It is "more" stable than previous releases, but still by no means as stable as what i've come to expect from my mac. i also like the ability OSX has to open up the OS9 operating system and run old apps. Something Windows hasn't figured out how to duplicate... at least as far as i know they haven't.