Sorry Mac fans!

The whole premise of this thread appears to be to generate a mac vs PC argument. It's the same as Nikon vs Canon vs Sony vs Pentax vs Samsung.

Choose based on which supports what you want to do with it and has the right ergonomics ("feel") for you.

If the issue is with the cost of the mac then you need to look for any extra value for you that makes it worthwhile. The platform stability may justify that, it depends on how you value your time.

I bought a macbook. I love it. Was it expensive? Yes, a bit, but I have not spent any time on it doing anything other than what I wanted to do. Zero maintenance. For me that is worth a higher initial outlay. For you, it may differ.
 
it's alive said:
The whole premise of this thread appears to be to generate a mac vs PC argument. It's the same as Nikon vs Canon vs Sony vs Pentax vs Samsung.
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Nope, not from me. Have you read through the thread... I have both systems - as I stated earlier. No axe to grind here.
 
King of Groove said:
Yes they're good but the typical imac has only 3 usb ports wheras my pc has 6. They seem expensive in comparison to a pc body.
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Yes but you should not be comparing an iMac with a PC body

It's the price of an iMac against

A PC body
An equivalent monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
Webcam
Set of speakers.


Many people forget to add the cost of all the little extras that comes with an iMac and they all add up. An iMac will work straight out of the box a PC body will not, you need to buy other stuff.

I am not in either of the camps, my win XP machine never seem to go wrong, but I'll be getting a mac next.
 
whereas the PC's need a clear out every day
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no offence but those machines are either poorly built or have hardware issues.

ive got dell xp and vista boxes at work that are used as scanning and various other mundane task boxes that have 100% uptime between windows update reboots. which as theyre not internet facing can be up to 5-6 months at a time.
 
theMusicMan said:
Nope, not from me. Have you read through the thread... I have both systems - as I stated earlier. No axe to grind here.
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Premise, not posts from subsequent contributors. You've certainly presented a balanced view. :)

I'm not grinding any axes either.
 
it's alive said:
Premise, not posts from subsequent contributors. You've certainly presented a balanced view. :)

I'm not grinding any axes either.
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Thanks, we see enough Mac V's PC debates on here, I'm sure we don't want another eh!

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Hi - I'm new here but thought I'd add to this as I use PC's at work, and Mac at home

@ work, 90% of my time is spent in photoshop (and some illustrator) retouching, colour correcting and sending to print.

@ home a very high percentage of time spent in photoshop (and now lightroom, which I am loving).

My comments working between the 2 platforms are:

Working in a large corporate environment which needs to use Alias, icemsurf etc, the PC would be the choice single platform from the IT support staff point of view (IMHO) because 1) some of this software doesn't run native on a mac, and 2) they've probably grown up using pc's and know their foibles.

However, my personal belief is that mac's come into their own, as stated above, in terms of user interface, useability (you just seem to know how to use the thing - I can't explain it, but they've done their homework), possibly colour correctness (it certainly seems easy to get very very good results without trying on a mac - don't talk to me about pc's on this one!), and lastly - it 'looks' like a serious design/creative professionals bit of kit - not like an accountant with a big screen (apologies - no offense meant).

The worst thing about using both platforms is getting used to silly things like where the @ symbol lives!

Pete

ps - why would you need 6 usb ports? Isn't that a bit like asking a car salesman how many cup-holders it has?!
 
Working in a large corporate environment which needs to use Alias, icemsurf etc, the PC would be the choice single platform from the IT support staff point of view (IMHO) because 1) some of this software doesn't run native on a mac, and 2) they've probably grown up using pc's and know their foibles.
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yes and no..

we've resorted to terminal services and RDC for some windows apps needed on the macs, it works pretty well.

my main bug bare with them at work is they take a lot of faffing to get working reliably on a windows network. sending authentication to our internet filter is a complete nightmare. ironically enough the filter is linux based.

also the cost, i could go to dell and get an equally capable box for a fraction of the money and the budget would be safe for another day. however there'd be a mass walk out if we did that lol.

from a support aspect theyre not a lot different to windows, just a lot of techies (like users) are stuck on what they think is best.
 
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