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Originally Posted by veejo
But the serious work is still done on the PC. My nephew does professional video editing, the pro platforms are on PCs not Mac.
Mac comes with some good apps straight from the box for money, but they have their limitations.
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Hmm.... here we go. What "limitations" may I ask? Seems that "serious" means different things to different people and environments. I run an advertising/graphic arts/prepress company's IT and development division. Macs are everywhere as front-end desktop machines that the artists (all) seem to prefer. As high-end desktop image processors and pagination systems they are absolutely as capable than their Windows counterparts that we also have - they work more seamlessly together, and the applications feel much more "fluid" for some reason to the users. There are no "limitations" to them - at least in my industry, whatever that means. Both the PC's and the Macs at our place are similarly powered - and have the same suite of applications on them. The Macs are used all the time, the PC's are strangely quiet.
One of the main reasons video is done on PC's at our place is that they are cheaper when you need to cluster multiples of them. A waste of Macs. LOL! Maya et al runs just as well on the Mac platform - they're all Intel-based at the end of the day. Maybe your nephews applications are specifically written, bespoke code that the authors chose to develop on the Windows platform for what ever reason. That's cool - we do it too.
Barry - if you run mostly PC-based software, especially if it's a little older, I'd stay with the PC platform. Unless you want to go OSX for the sheer fun and ease of use of it, there's probably little point. Remember - Macs are easy to use because there has been an incredible of amount of under-the-bonnet development to make them that way. They aren't "simple" in any way. If you run XP or Windows 7 natively on them instead of OSX, as you would a beige box PC, then the hardware itself is very, very good. A bit of a waste of OSX though....
