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BrianG · 03.01.2010, 10:24 PM

Whoah! Didn't mean to start a Mac vs PC thing here, but oh well. Here's my take on a couple of points (and these are my suspicions based on logic, not any facts):

- Why graphics professionals use Macs still? Simple: Because that's where they started. I cannot think of one area where a Mac would run the same app than a PC (ported for Win of course). They run equivalent hardware now, so it's no longer a RISC vs CISC processor issue. If people got a Mac to work on graphics 10 years ago, chances are they'll stick to Mac because that's what they are used to.

- Macs last longer than PCs. Hmm, that's kinda illogical. Same hardware, same MTBF. Maybe unless Steve J gets the cream of the crop hardware choices. Really, what it comes down to is that a Mac user shells out more up front for the box, and makes it last longer because it's too expensive to upgrade every 5 minutes, and support for hardware and OS lasts longer, so people can stick with it longer.

Personally, the gaming community is what drives the hardware performance factor in the PC world for the most part. If it wasn't for that group, 99.9% of the users would be more than happy with ~2GHz CPUs and ~1GB of RAM. How much does it really take to surf the internet, send email, view/edit pictures/videos, and write up an office doc? My aging home box is more than sufficient for that. OK, maybe video editing takes a little bit of power, but that's not exactly what Jane and Joe Sixpack use their box for. Anyway, back to my point; the gaming community requires more and more power to render those realistic games out there. And M$ convinces everyone they need to upgrade the OS in order to utilize all that power, where in fact, the OS uses more of that power for all its crappy UI bells and whistles. So, instead of fixing what is already in place until it actually works right, they release another "beta" OS with new issues. And not to mention M$ stops support for older OS's, and then 3rd party driver makers follow suit and build for the new OS as well. Never ending cycle there.

So, both OS's have their downfalls: Steve J and his holier-than-though god complex. What he really needs is an iKick in the iHead. M$ just keeps cranking out new bloated OS's without fixing the issues in the old one.

Like I said before: If Linux was a viable all-in-one OS that could do everything Win can, I'd switch in a heartbeat and send M$ their install discs back to them in pieces.

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BrianG RC-Monster Admin Offline Posts: 14,609 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Des Moines, IA	03.01.2010, 10:24 PM Whoah! Didn't mean to start a Mac vs PC thing here, but oh well. Here's my take on a couple of points (and these are my suspicions based on logic, not any facts): - Why graphics professionals use Macs still? Simple: Because that's where they started. I cannot think of one area where a Mac would run the same app than a PC (ported for Win of course). They run equivalent hardware now, so it's no longer a RISC vs CISC processor issue. If people got a Mac to work on graphics 10 years ago, chances are they'll stick to Mac because that's what they are used to. - Macs last longer than PCs. Hmm, that's kinda illogical. Same hardware, same MTBF. Maybe unless Steve J gets the cream of the crop hardware choices. Really, what it comes down to is that a Mac user shells out more up front for the box, and makes it last longer because it's too expensive to upgrade every 5 minutes, and support for hardware and OS lasts longer, so people can stick with it longer. Personally, the gaming community is what drives the hardware performance factor in the PC world for the most part. If it wasn't for that group, 99.9% of the users would be more than happy with ~2GHz CPUs and ~1GB of RAM. How much does it really take to surf the internet, send email, view/edit pictures/videos, and write up an office doc? My aging home box is more than sufficient for that. OK, maybe video editing takes a little bit of power, but that's not exactly what Jane and Joe Sixpack use their box for. Anyway, back to my point; the gaming community requires more and more power to render those realistic games out there. And M$ convinces everyone they need to upgrade the OS in order to utilize all that power, where in fact, the OS uses more of that power for all its crappy UI bells and whistles. So, instead of fixing what is already in place until it actually works right, they release another "beta" OS with new issues. And not to mention M$ stops support for older OS's, and then 3rd party driver makers follow suit and build for the new OS as well. Never ending cycle there. So, both OS's have their downfalls: Steve J and his holier-than-though god complex. What he really needs is an iKick in the iHead. M$ just keeps cranking out new bloated OS's without fixing the issues in the old one. Like I said before: If Linux was a viable all-in-one OS that could do everything Win can, I'd switch in a heartbeat and send M$ their install discs back to them in pieces.