MAC ? PC ?
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- Zaaa0
Mac for video or print work. PC for everything else.
- Sapphire0
me and my mac divorced before we even met. pc is the love of my life.
does that answere your question?
- unknown0
Well I have to say that it was fun reading what people think about PCs and Macs and I would like to raise one point.
As a creative professional, like many other here, I used both Macs and PCs. Based upon my experience I can say only one thing. Who cares if Macs do a bit better job with video. If I can buy a blazing fast PC for a third of a Mac price which does almost everything the same or even better (with exception for video) why in the world would I buy a Mac. If I need to do only video I will buy one PC with extra RAM and video editing software and keep it very clean and one for web development, print and other stuff. They would still cost less then one nicely equipped G4. That's what I call productivity and cost-effectiveness.
- corin0
I love apple, they are so desperate to be innovative that they always come up with new stuff first. Then i can sit back and wait for some non-proprietry pc based company to fix all the mistakes they make and release the same thing for half the price. Oh and i think macs are the ugliest things i've ever seen... in my mind they are the industrial design equivalent of beveeled buttons with drop shadows and chrome filters.
- PeterNorf0
Im surprised this thread is still around. Yawnn/..
Who cares..My PC goes blip blip and I like it!
- slind0
iTunes
- petzi0
there is no thing i can't do with my mac. pc's are too geeky.
- silver0
Jaguar is half the price of Windows XP so why would I use Windows on my Mac? :?
- mbr0
Mac - The only reason I could see to use a Mac would be becuase it's pretty. Although they are starting to look dated. The only other reason is the new 17" powerbook, but for the price I would never get one. I'd get a Tag Hueur and a Dell.
PC - much, much faster, period. Dual Xeons will blow the doors off of any Mac out there. Graphic cards are far superior for PCs. Compatibility. I know one architecture firm that uses Macs and they recently had to buy PCs just to be able to work with engineers and other firms.
Money - just too much for a Mac, a pretty plastic box can't justify it in my mind or for my business needs.
Lastly, I use my right click and scroll button (the button, not the wheel) every hour of every day, I can't imagine not having it (Iknow, I know, you can get the 3 button mouse for the Mac, but that's besides the point).
PCs win, until I have $4k to toss at something that looks cool.
- unknown0
Pee-See for me
Macks are ok but pee-see are faster, cheaper, more upgradable and from personal experience, crashes less too.
- unknown0
hows restarting your workstation twice a day for productivity?
sure pc's are cheaper, but you get what you pay for. as for processor speeds, haha you have to be kidding me. why does a 2ghz pc see little or no difference between it and a 1ghz mac? Macs are much much much easier to network too. I used to be so anti mac it was pathetic, so caught up in my windows world. Windows just started catching up to mac in the last two years, go back three years and see how many designers were working with PC's. I think it's safe to say that the numbers were extremely tilted in the favor of macs. So why would i want to work on a system that took all the way up to two years ago to get it right, when i could just keep working on a system that had it right all along?
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.