macs... the appeal?

[SooTyLaD]

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being a heavy user of loads of adobe apps (mainly illustrator, ps, flash and a bit of premiere and encore etc) i've often thought about getting a mac... they seem more nicey-nicey and are very aesthetic and you dont have a lot of issues such as heavy virus problems etc... but are they REALLY that much better for design apps?

everytime i come close to really looking at getting one i get dragged back to pc cuz there are just so many apps, little tools etc that i am so comfortable with and would have to loose or find alternatives for...

i can appreciate them in terms of usability and aesthetics, but they seem a bit more superficial and not as interesting... what are all your opinions?

if there were real bonified advantages to getting a mac, then i'll consider getting an imac to have a play...

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I like Macs, but then again I like (generic) PCs as well. The malware situation on with Unix-like systems is much nicer. It's certainly one of the upsides. There are many little Mac apps that I wish were duplicated on Windows. Likewise there are many little Windows apps I wish were available on the Mac. I wish all of them were available on Linux.

I think lately the devs of both OS X and Windows have been having a contest to see who can discard their respective time-honored HUGs the most.

 

[Rich43]

I think the appeal is that the whole operating system is made for the computer your sitting at. This means that everything should work better and possibly faster?

I think apple are more innovotive than microsoft too, microsoft tend to copy other's ideas. If you seen the latest OSX thats coming out it has a dock with stacks (Read about em on apple.com) and it looks easier and nicer to use than windows imo.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Apple does their fair share of copying too, though. Widgets are ripped straight from Konfabulator. Spaces, hyped as a new innovative feature for Leopard, is just a slick implementation of what Linux users have been enjoying for a decade. No ideas exist in a vacuum; everybody's looking at what the other guys are doing.

 

[ClubCX]

Not to mention the new ipod looks like a total clone of the Zune. Personally when I hear the word mac I think of a boxy 1980s computer with monochrome graphics and a square mouse with one button, so I certainly don't see an appeal with it from that perspective. Less viruses is definately a positive thing, particularly for more casual users, but when the virus writers decide to target macs the situation probably won't be any better than with Windows, and infact may be a lot worse if it catches Apple off-guard.