Switching to Mac

[WalterWhite]

My first computer was a PC. EVERYBODY told me this was the way to go. What did I know? $1600 in early 2000s, less than six months later I took a hammer to it. Flooded with viruses. Like SoCal with the Mexicans, totally unfixable.

Bought a Mac, haven't had a problem since.

UGH I got tired of wiping windows hard drives so now on my fourth Macbook Pro and not one problem. Nice thing is I flipped the older ones and got good money for them. 

[tu_holmes]

Puhleeze. The Gimp is much more powerful and user friendly than Photoshop 

One App?

Seriously man. I have been using Linux for about 20 years now.

It has made huge strides, but it's still not up there with a Mac in terms of application availability.

Office is better than OpenOffice
Where is your Linux linear video editing?
Your Linux 3D modeling?

There are some great Linux Apps. But compared to the apps available on a Mac?

Stop smoking the crack and be real man.

[_bruce_]

Satisfaction Guaranteed

[A Righteous Sort]

One App?

Seriously man. I have been using Linux for about 20 years now.

It has made huge strides, but it's still not up there with a Mac in terms of application availability.

Office is better than OpenOffice
Where is your Linux linear video editing?
Your Linux 3D modeling?

There are some great Linux Apps. But compared to the apps available on a Mac?

Stop smoking the crack and be real man.

Yep, Mac is the video editing software of choice for professionals

[_aj_]

One App?

Seriously man. I have been using Linux for about 20 years now.

It has made huge strides, but it's still not up there with a Mac in terms of application availability.

Office is better than OpenOffice
Where is your Linux linear video editing?
Your Linux 3D modeling?

There are some great Linux Apps. But compared to the apps available on a Mac?

Stop smoking the crack and be real man.

I think that you missed my sarcasm. The Gimp blows compared to Photoshop.

[Primemuscle]

Problem is people are comparing a $12-$1500 machine to a $450 one.  Thats like comparing a Mercedes S500 to a Toyota Corolla and then asking which one is better.

My Sony Vaio laptop cost me about $1,200. It is 5 years old now and still going strong with very few problems along the way. I'd have to agree that one should compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges or PC's to PC's as the case may be.

[tu_holmes]

I think that you missed my sarcasm. The Gimp blows compared to Photoshop.

Sorry man... I did miss it.

My mistake.

You are correct... Gimp works, but compared to PS... it's shit.

[visualizeperfection]

I had Mandrake linux on a machine for about 6 months when I was a young teenager... sucked the dick. I havent looked back at nix ever since.

[polychronopolous]

Even better than switching from 6-8 reps to 12-15?

No don't do it bro, you'll shrivel up to nothing.

[Army of One]

Odd how it's a part of the service I provide. (Video Editing Tech) and I always find the Mac platform has greater ease of use and success.

So?Some companies are still running Xp and nt4, and they have 'service techs' for that too, doesn't mean it's the way to go.The mac is better for video editing fallacy harks from the days on the nineties where macs had superior graphics card support for editing, and were the first to use NLE, both which don't apply anymore.Unless you have a real hankering to use Final Cut Pro, it's far cheaper and easier to use a windows machine, cheaper to build, much greater choice of video editing software.If you have to use Final Cut Pro, then simply make sure the pc you build is hackintosh compatible, and dual boot in to osx.

[tu_holmes]

So?Some companies are still running Xp and nt4, and they have 'service techs' for that too, doesn't mean it's the way to go.The mac is better for video editing fallacy harks from the days on the nineties where macs had superior graphics card support for editing, and were the first to use NLE, both which don't apply anymore.Unless you have a real hankering to use Final Cut Pro, it's far cheaper and easier to use a windows machine, cheaper to build, much greater choice of video editing software.If you have to use Final Cut Pro, then simply make sure the pc you build is hackintosh compatible, and dual boot in to osx.

That cost analysis is also fallacy.

A windows machine spec'd equivalently is not much cheaper and in some cases is more expensive than a Mac.

Macs have a better video package outside of FCP. Adobe Premeire, Avid, and even most capture devices are better under Mac platforms.

That's just the way it is. The pipelines are just better.

And any company running NT4 should fire their entire IT staff.

That's an OS that's almost 20 years old.