On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:57 PM, William Evans wrote:
Mac hardware to run OSX is only expensive if you are used to buying
really cheap gung pao kiddy boxes with no horsepower. As soon as you
buy a dell/sony/gateway with any real sack (to run all the programs
u must have to be a designer) you are paying comparable prices.
DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a Mac vs. PC debate.
As yourself this: How valuable is my time? How much is the entire
system (hardware+software)? How much time will I spend using the
system vs. getting up to speed, reinstalling, maintaining my system,
etc?
Personally, my time is too valuable to spend shopping for cheaper
hardware, assembling a system myself, and then trying to get everyone
to play along nice-nice w/each other. I just spent the past day-and-a-
half installing trying to install Vista, then reinstalling XP, then
installing Vista again. Vista still won't connect to the Internet. It
looks pretty, but I'm frustrated as hell. That's about 8-10 hours I
can't get back. At my billable rate, 8-10 hours is more than the
$200-300 I pay for my "premium" hardware.
That's why I use a Mac. I'll pay a $300 premium for a better system
that has less downtime and requires less baby sitting. More billable
time, less babysitting.
I have a brother-in-law who's in the other camp. He doesn't mind
spending hours hunting down a "good deal" on a piece of PC hardware,
installing it and then spending hours getting it to play nicely w/the
rest of his machine, updating drivers, running anti-virus software,
and mucking around in the registry. He uses a Windows PC. He doesn't
mind the babysitting, or rather has just gotten used to it. His wife
uses a Mac (he keeps eyeing it though).
For some, a Mac system is better. For others, there's Windows or Linux.
Cheers!
Todd Zaki Warfel
President, Design Researcher
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