PC strikes back against the Mac?

[Mkopec1]

What if your high AND use PC?

[Himeo]

The mac advertising campaign really blows. They should go back to using the same formula they did for Ipod's.

Hot music and hot body's dancing around with ADD-style-action shots.

[Frawdo]

These commericials hurt bad. Not a single smile, chuckle, or laugh until the very last line of the last movie, "...for a buck." And even then it was only a small laugh.

I'm not a huge fan of Macs, but I think the original are at least somewhat entertaining, mainly because John Hodgeman can make pretty much anything funny.

[Cadrid]

The only PC vs. Mac ad I ever liked was this one from Ctrl+Alt+Del:

[Millie]

The whole Mac vs PC debate is pretty stupid, if you ask me. Buy a Mac if you do graphic design, video, or music editing for a living or as a major hobby. Buy a PC if you do a lot of business work or gaming. Or buy both, if you can afford to do so. No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to choose one or the other.

[Warrik]

Originally Posted by Millie

The whole Mac vs PC debate is pretty stupid, if you ask me. Buy a Mac if you do graphic design, video, or music editing for a living or as a major hobby. Buy a PC if you do a lot of business work or gaming. Or buy both, if you can afford to do so. No one's holding a gun to your head and forcing you to choose one or the other.

Or buy a Mac and run boot camp to seemlessly have both OSX and Windows XP on the same machine and get the best of both worlds!~

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Millie

Buy a Mac if you do graphic design, video, or music editing for a living or as a major hobby.

I find it bizarre that people actually believe that hardware and software for artsy shit aren't virtually identical on either platform. It's not like that's some new revelation either, it's been that way for at least a decade now.

[Zeste]

Originally Posted by Vorph

I find it bizarre that people actually believe that hardware and software for artsy shit aren't virtually identical on either platform. It's not like that's some new revelation either, it's been that way for at least a decade now.

I use photoshop and illustrator all day, every day, as well as Flash. They are the same on a PC and a Mac, but I find them easier and faster to use on a Mac and with OSX.

But yeah, photoshop is the same no matter what. I just find the functionality of OSX to be alot more productive and efficient, for me.

[Millie]

Originally Posted by Vorph

I find it bizarre that people actually believe that hardware and software for artsy shit aren't virtually identical on either platform. It's not like that's some new revelation either, it's been that way for at least a decade now.

/shrug

Every artistic, film production, and graphic-design professional I've ever worked with on the studio side of my business has preferred Macs to PCs for their heavy-duty design and editing needs. A lot of these folks have been plying their respective trades for decades, and I trust their opinions.

[Mkopec1]

Ive heard that the Macs had better displays, but Vorph said those displays are used also by Sony and HP so /shrug I cant see how a mac would be faster or better than the current generation of high end PC's.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Millie

/shrug

Every artistic, film production, and graphic-design professional I've ever worked with on the studio side of my business has preferred Macs to PCs for their heavy-duty design and editing needs. A lot of these folks have been plying their respective trades for decades, and I trust their opinions.

The fact that they've been doing their thing for decades is probably the answer. When they started using computers in the process, the Mac would have been the obvious choice (along with Amiga/Atari ST for music). Odds are, someone like that isn't going to suddenly get up one day and decide to switch to a PC instead even when the technical gap was closed. About the only limitation of the PC (pre-Vista anyway) is that you can't just go buy a 4GB+ machine off the shelf like you can with a Mac. Just remember to bring lube for when the sales guy is quoting a price. ^^

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LG.Philips makes all(?) of Apple's panels, Apple just makes the case and backlight. LG supplies Sony, HP, etc. at 23", and Dell at 30". Maybe Dell at 20.1", but that's up for debate at the moment, as some people have recently reported getting an inferior Samsung panel instead.

[Lenas]

I do graphic design for a living and the only thing I would use a mac over a pc for is video editing. And that's only because of Final Cut pro, not because the mac has some astonishing video hardware.

Macs are used in the graphics industry because as I'm often finding out, there are people that are amazing in illustrator or photoshop, but don't know shit about how to run anything else on the computer. Hence the simpler OS.

[xeg_IS]

I'm so tired of hearing about Macs.

[Sabyn]

Now that I have a PC desktop I kinda wish I had an apple laptop. Would be nice for a change, though compatibility between the two may be a pain.

[jazser]

Apple originally had a huge edge over PC for audio creation, post production, midi etc. Pro-Tools was in a completely different class from anything available for the PC. PC's had what...cakewalk? There was literally no comparison.

Today things are very different. Pro-Tools is still amazing and the choice of many studios, but there are now options for the PC that compete, and that's in the high end. For the project studio crowd, there are even more PC options that are a lot less expensive than similar MAC options.