What do you use your mac for?
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Don't buy anything because of what you "hear". Try both systems for yourself. Would you buy a car based just on what people say about it? Course not. You'd go on test drives. If you've got £2k to spend on a MacPro why don't you buy a £400 MacMini today - use it for a few weeks, see how you get on then sell it 2nd hand. Won't loose much more than £50 but you'll know if spending £2k on a fully kitted MacPro is a good idea or not.
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I'll try one example...
I have a program for my mac called iSale which manages ebay auctions. It's completely integrated, without entering any setting of any kind, with all the relevent apps. I saw I want to add a photo to my auction, it presents my iphoto library. I create an auction it puts reminders in my calendar etc. I just don't know of any program with this kind of system wide integration on windows (bearing in mind I've never had to tell it what app i use for my calendar etc).
CS3, I prefer the interface on mac. Difficult to describe, you'll just have to see it but I prefer how it works to the windows interface.
In the end I think that apps are easier to use on mac but the main reason I use it is because it's easy. I have a job which demands that I'm an expert in Windows and Linux (and IP networking) but I don't want to have to spend my life tweaking windows to work properly at home, my laptop is just a tool at the end of the day and I need it to work first time every time. Mac does that for me, I've always been able to switch on and do exactly what I needed straight off. I can't say that about a windows system unfortunately (and I design service provider systems for a living so thats not a question of my ability)
It's difficult to grasp. Before I got a mac I couldn't see what the difference would be, and I only got one because the app I wanted wasn't available on windows. A few months later I got rid of my windows machine because I just didn't use it any more...
I have a program for my mac called iSale which manages ebay auctions. It's completely integrated, without entering any setting of any kind, with all the relevent apps. I saw I want to add a photo to my auction, it presents my iphoto library. I create an auction it puts reminders in my calendar etc. I just don't know of any program with this kind of system wide integration on windows (bearing in mind I've never had to tell it what app i use for my calendar etc).
CS3, I prefer the interface on mac. Difficult to describe, you'll just have to see it but I prefer how it works to the windows interface.
In the end I think that apps are easier to use on mac but the main reason I use it is because it's easy. I have a job which demands that I'm an expert in Windows and Linux (and IP networking) but I don't want to have to spend my life tweaking windows to work properly at home, my laptop is just a tool at the end of the day and I need it to work first time every time. Mac does that for me, I've always been able to switch on and do exactly what I needed straight off. I can't say that about a windows system unfortunately (and I design service provider systems for a living so thats not a question of my ability)
It's difficult to grasp. Before I got a mac I couldn't see what the difference would be, and I only got one because the app I wanted wasn't available on windows. A few months later I got rid of my windows machine because I just didn't use it any more...
The simple answer to this is over 90% of the creative/designers/print industry are using CS3 on a Mac. I work in the print industry and over the years artwork coming in created on a PC has pretty much disappeared completely.
Probably the main reason for this is Macs are much cheaper now.
I could do everything I need to do on Linux, but the user interface of Leopard beats any Linux distro. On the hardware side, I make full use of 8 cores, so the mac is quite a good solution.
TBH, you get used to whatever you use the most, and therefore find that environment "best".
yantorsen:
If you're genuinely interested and not just being awkward, have a gander at the videos explaining the iMac, iLife08 and Leopard on the Apple site. I've just sat and watched them and there's stuff in there that you'd never dream of doing with any other OS/set of apps.
Really is an eye opener.
If you're genuinely interested and not just being awkward, have a gander at the videos explaining the iMac, iLife08 and Leopard on the Apple site. I've just sat and watched them and there's stuff in there that you'd never dream of doing with any other OS/set of apps.
Really is an eye opener.
care to link me to these? maybe I will finally be able to see what all the fuss is about....
Cheers Justin. Something's going off with the forums and notification emails. I've not had them come through properly for ages, then they all come through in the night !
Ha - Quicktime on Windows?
yep, It wants to download some update, but won't download the update without downloading iTunes aswell. I decided to just download but it still don't work, so I gave up.