New Computer for video
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Well it's like this _MU_:
Studio MX 2004 is a complete wreck. I agree about the bugs on PCs as well, but on Mac is even worse. I actually tried working on G5 for 2 days with my current projects and it was just impossible. Dreamweaver was freezing my G5, once I try to detach the toolbars they would appear to be duplicated on screen, one would still be attached to the right and the same one would be floating on the screen. Oh, and I tried this on another G5, to make sure that the one I was working on was not screwed up, :( same thing. Btw, you can't move the other one and when you try than everything blocks. This also happened on 7.01 update. The coding has improved over MX now, but it still pretty much unsuable for some advanced usage. I'm not talking about writing simple HTML code and doing some CSS, I'm talking about organizing sites, DB connectivity and so on. DW really has some great tools 90% people never used. Flash is even worse than on PC, crashes, still slow (now it's more acceptable, but I mean come on, I need a dual G5 2 to get half-ass acceptable authoring environment). At least on PC, it crashes, but when it works it works and I get the job done. Fireworks I did not try out, but I heard it also has speed issues. Of course, Flash Player still sucks, but I guess I can test everything on some cheap-ass PC, so that's no biggie.
A few other things, that were not so important for my decision, but still count, are that I don't have 3DS Max, AE will cease to exist (or it already did) don't know and I lose nice MS IDE like VS .NET and so on. Unfortunately, didn't have a copy of Director MX 2004, so I can't tell you about that. So all in all, it is a bad idea to get something that will require me to spend a lot of time (read money) adopting. My clients don't give a shit if I work on Macs or PCs as long as I hit the deadline and deliver.
Currently, the only justifiable reason for someone to switch to Mac is if you're in Video editing and are used to working with Avid products or Maya and for Print designers/DTP because all of those applications work perfect.