Apple and Graphic Design

You can get a Dell XPS 15 with Core i5, 4GB RAM and 640GB 7200rpm HDD for £679 right now. Great spec for the money. Miles better than the Sony.
 
Honestly having working for a graphics place, havign worked in other and freelancing for other companies, they wont care what youre used to short cuts wise, theyll never ask, and TBH, the shortcuts between all of Adobe suits etc, on Mac and PC is the Apple key.

Also, yes, Mac far and away blow a Pc out of the water everytome for every graphic event, youll see them when trying ot render a 3GB EPS at a stupidly high res...sit and watch a taskbar on a PC, the mac just renders it and you get on with things.
 
skippi90 said:
I know that it was once true that Adobe software ran best on OSX and the OS was more stable on the whole than offerings from Windows,
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That's all it really is...or was...

Don't bother. Get a Vaio (maybe not a Vaio as their build quality is terrible and always break) and be happy with the money you have saved. I hate this thought that people have, they need a Mac as they are a designer or a creative.

I'm doing a Photojournalism University course and the amount of people saying they NEED a Mac is a ridiculous...

I ask them why and they're stumped.
 
QwaF said:
They don't prefer Mac hardware. They prefer Mac software. Final Cut, Aperture, Logic, etc.
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Personally that's the reason I switched.

I was blown away by how good Final Cut Pro was; back in 2003 FCP was leaps ahead of Adobe Premiere. So many other pieces of software were also outstanding which is what made me buy a Mac.

I'd say that these days, a lot of Windows software has caught up.

What has changed though is that many people buy Macs now off the back of owning an iPod or iPhone, the fact that they also look really nice and are converted is another reason.


Speaking from a film industry post-production perspective... most large facilities run linux. In general I've found that when people are working using their own equipment that most will tend to have Macs...

In which case you've got most using them because they need the software, where as staff who don't need such technical tools and are only doing word processing and e-mail will probably have one too.

I suppose the simplest way to look at it is that most in the design industry will have to use their own equipment at some point and are most likely in a position to afford an Apple product. Non-Design industry companies, especially corporate ones often provide staff with laptops... the majority don't go spending all their money on premium products from Apple when they can get their IT products much cheaper from a supplier with Windows as the OS.
 
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