Mac vs PC for design
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- vaxorcist0
just get 2 huge monitors and nobody will really care...
but then again, huge monitors make it easier for people to look past your head and see that you're surfing instead of working...
- Not if you make them face inwards!********
- Its better, you put up a bunch of work then surf in a tiny obscure corner of 1 monitor.ETM
- Not if you make them face inwards!
- ukit0
The best you can hope for is a Mac with huge monitors where your back is facing the wall so no one can see what you're doing. Try to arrange that if possible.
- Non design guys just don't realise that failblog/porn/lolcat... is a designers creative fuel.********
- Non design guys just don't realise that failblog/porn/lolcat... is a designers creative fuel.
- amazing0
For web design, I prefer a pc. For print design, I prefer a mac.
- PIZZA0
"For web design, I prefer a pc."
Utterly mental considering Mac web design tools kick the shit out of windows.
- mydo0
at the end of the day if you don't ask for a mac, no one will respect your design opinion. probably not here. and definitely not in your new job.
- AmandaLee0
hahah ok ok I get it, this has been brought up a million times. I kind of figured it wouldn't really matter which computer I use, I just wanted a few more opinions on it to put my mind at ease in the likely scenario they won't get me the Mac.
- vaxorcist0
flash on mac always sucked, but flash on PC was okay... now that we don't do so much flash, who cares....
- vaxorcist0
but seriously....
Can anyone verify this:
Years ago, I was told that Macs had better long-form font rendering, so that a 100 page book onscreen in Quark would be 100 pages in print, but a PC may have ever so slightly different font metrics in print than on screen so you may get 101 pages....
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- georgesIII0
finally I get to use it,
- ETM0
Best option is simply have one of each. That's what I do here and that's what I asked for at my last job. My IT guy oddly was actually a Mac guy so it was the PC that took the convincing. I just said I would admin it. It was great, I had a machine that could get tied up with any sort of rendering etc and still have another for surfing NT/QBN.
There are a few PC cases that will look good on the desk, but better option is just hide it under your desk :)
- no need for one of each, just get a mac with vmwarePIZZA
- Yeah, because it will perform great when you eat up all the cpu cycles rendering.ETM
- ahhh.... don't like running anything vm like....vaxorcist
- why do you need to be designing on the PC while rendering???PIZZA
- just get 2 macs then if you have to be johnny 2 computersPIZZA
- @ pizza, one computer renders, one is free, what is hard to understand?ETM
- vaxorcist0
I used work with a nice powerbook and a cheap old piece-of-shit PC, so that I could test everything on the PC that our users would be likely to have....but work on the mac...
- tasty0
I swear i thought this was going to be another one of that asian guy's clothing discount posts. That's how stupid this question is.
- mg330
This reminds me of a great thread from the macrumors message board a couple of years ago, where people were showing their desktop setup. This one guy had 4 22" monitors and said something like "4 screens is barely enough for web design. I don't know how anyone can use one, or even two monitors." He was basically describing how he NEEDS code visible, a debugging program, a browser, and all this other shit open AT THE SAME TIME to even think about working on a site. Absurd.
- duckofrubber0
One of the biggest strengths for print design on OS X is font rendering and native postscript support. Cleartype is complete bunk for trying to lay out text-heavy page spreads.
Windows has the advantage when it comes to web design, however, merely because you are already working in the framework that most of the internet's users are using.
- Agreed. That's my main issue with Windows as well. It would be great if Adobe built in standardized anti-aliasingmonospaced
- Although, I would use Coda and Transmit on Mac over Adobe or WinSCPukit
- ********0
Can anyone please release the fuckin' kraken?! I really can't understand why this discussion still exists...unless you're doing furniture...
- ...had to have something do while I waited for updates on COTD...********
- ...had to have something do while I waited for updates on COTD...
- ETM0
I imagine contractor forums have the same shit discussion about whether they should own Dewalt vs.Makita (or the like) tools. All the insecure contractors say DeWalt because that is what they see all the guys on TV use and the level headed guy says "Who cares, they both build the same damn thing. Its the guy wielding them that matters".
- Frickin' LOL, found one:
http://www.contracto…ETM - old school dudes use tools stolen from previous jobs, usually makita because they supposedly last longervaxorcist
- Frickin' LOL, found one:
- akrok0
use what you used to. it's just a tool.
