on 9/27/01 3:15 AM, Nick Harman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You guys talk like you're all freelance workers. Like me, although I only > use word.
Almost all my work is contractual, ie I work on 3-6 month commitments with more than one company. Luckily word is the big one for most people in moving to OS X... Email, office and browsing. > Freelancers won't spend anymore on overheads than necessary. Certainly they > wont want to spend on a new os and new apps when their present setup runs > fine. Why bother? I know for me, it's because it doesn't run fine... When I'm in my groove, and explorer takes down my whole machine... I get very, very pissed. :) Print professionals won't be going to X for awhile, but web designers are really interested. > And as for studios, most of the ones I know are running osx on one machine > only and purely out of interest. They arent going to put any fresh eggs > into any new baskets. As it should be. :) The statistic of web people still using v3.32 of quark is absolutely astounding. > The sad thing is that many of them are now increasingly running photoshop, > quark, dreamweaver et al on NT. More and more designers are leaving college > having learnt these things on windows. Its stable, its fast etc I have not seen this at all. Seriously. And I interface with a lot of colleges (loyola, northerwestern, chicago univ, columbia, etc) and that has not been my experience. The only media classes using PC's are very low-end, or very sophisticated, such as high-end 3d programs that only run on NT. In print, the macintosh rules- except for print servers which have been mostly taken over by NT with a small amount (very large print shops) using unix servers like helix, etc. That workflow is just too sensitive, and windowsNT or 2000 can't cut it. I know of two large print shops that TRIED to move their stuff to NT just because they thought it was what a good manager did, and switched back within 6 months. Almost everything I have read from analysts had backed this up, that they have seen no marketshare gains whatsoever from pc's in the print world over the last few years. I can tell you if someone is doing print work on a PC, they are a 1-man show and don�t' really know what they're doing... And probably using pagemaker. *shivers* Printers HATE getting files from these people. The web is a different story though, you just don�t need to know as much specialized knowledge to call yourself a designer, and the barriers to entry are so much lower... So macs are either very prevalent or non-existent depending on the shop. Macs still have a very high percentage in web creation when you consider their total marketshare (I think it is something like 35-40%?) -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
