Sorry I can't resist being devils advocate.
The idea that Mac's are good for music and editing are really based on obsolete history shady acquisitions and heaps of bull
****.
Yes Photoshop was originally designed for the Mac but considering it's been cross platform for roughly 20 years I don't see why this "made for mac" view is held as common knowledge. As someone to whom photoshop is second nature honestly there is no benefit between mac a pc.
PS on every mac I've ever used feels slow and clunky whether this is due to the generally inferior specs of the machine itself or something else I don't know.
Video production claims are all centred around FCP which I really don't see the big deal, première does everything FCP does and more whilst integrating with a suite of tools. I had to do an assessment in uni using FCP the general idea being you demonstrate your ability on the software and then get marked on what you produce.
I did the assesment on FCP and edited the movie in Premiers.
Music production is largely centred around Apple purchasing Logic which used to be cross platform. People loved logic so they went with apple and eventually "I love Logic" became "I love Apple" which is fairly common.
Then there's the one that really ****ed me off.
Shake.
Now most people have never heard of this program this was basically an industry standard compositing program.
What's compositing? In this context in a nut shell compositing is the art of combining multiple images and video footage into a single image/scene. For example:
The elements in that shot would have been created, textured, partially lit and rendered in 3D in multiple passes the people who bring those passes together and make everything look natural are compositors.
Shake was to compositing what Photoshop is to retouching.
Now I'm sure they have their reasons and I'm sure they upon closer examination those reasons will make no sense what-so-ever but if there's one thing you can derive from this it's that Apple doesn't really give a **** about the professional market they're all about the consumer.
Now this is fine if you are the consumer and have money to burn on something shiny (he says whilst stroking his red Alienware laptop with flashing lights) and want something you can swap out like a TV should it have problems.
However most people around here at the very least value bang for buck and the only Macs which you can even think about making that case for are the high end Mac Pro desktop workstations.
Probably a very long convoluted way to make a point but seriously though can we just put this whole "macs are better for creative stuffs" to bed please? Honestly to me it feels like when you purchase a mac you sign up to some kind of cult and I can already feel someone reading this saying "ah see, if you had one you'd understand" but the fact is I use Macs every single day which is the reason I spent £1000 on an Alienware laptop I didn't really need.
The only reason I have this laptop is so I can escape the tyranny of THIS ... thing!
I would take an incredibly rare BSOD over this **** any day, at least you can kind of get a clue what went wrong with a BSOD but you don't know what the hell is going on with this thing.
Is it just busy with the task it's meant to be doing? Maybe ... should I restart or wait it out? No way to know because Apple aren't going to actually give you information about what the hell is going on in your system because nothing goes wrong on an Apple but if something does go wrong it's your fault for wanting to do something other than listen to iTunes, play online scrabble and surf porn whilst updating you facebook status every 5 minutes to remind everyone just how ****ing witty and cool you are whilst scratching your arse wondering if there's a site which will help you cheat at scrabble.
Okay slight vent feel better and if the OP is at all confused on where I stand I can elaborate more.
