@Kaedroho - Right there with you man! Death to the crapintosh!
@PAGAn - Oh, come on. XP is ancient, switch to Win7. XP is ugly, insecure, and poorly handles multiple cores. Not to mention that it seems to clog up and slow down the quickest over time.
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When people make blanket statements like this, alarm bells ring out of "Never used one"
OS X is actually a pretty decent middle ground between Win and Linux. It has both a decent UI + app support and solid support of common POSIX/UNIX facilities (enabling MacPorts, for example, which is fantastic for easy install of Linux apps or other GNU/FOSS stuff). It's the best of both worlds"
Oh, David...
Please, I was just trying to make a short statement to convey my opinion without having to deal with all the drama associated with it.
I have used them - for years, in fact, in all of the various computer graphics classes I had taken through high school (at the time I wanted to major in computer graphics, but changed my mind to computer science after I had realized I loved programming more). The head of the art department was misinformed as usual and made the ignorant decision to use macs instead of PCs for art, simply because it was generally accepted that they were better. For no actual logical reason. Imagine the ironic humor I was struck with when they complained about lack of funding! It was their fault entirely, but that is another story.
I own Photoshop CS3 at home, and I'm sure you know this, but the program is exactly the same on both platforms.
Exactly. Why, then, should a mac be considered better for art if it has no ground? Don't try and argue that they are better optimized for video and image processing, please. My $800 computer rips through various tools and filters in photoshop much faster than the fancy new imacs I had been playing around with earlier last week.
It's all just false perception. I know they are pretty, I know they cost a lot. These are designed to win people over, through charms and subconscious "you get what you pay for" nonsense. Clearly that cannot be true when open-source software has been making some huge leaps in recent times?
But nevertheless. Instead of typing something long and annoying that our original poster would never read, I said what I meant simply and to the point. I don't understand why you must always valiantly defend your silly inferior platform whenever we all disprove of it...
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