Go with the operating system you know best. Photoshop works great either way, the main difference, imho, is the way you are used to the machine responding.
So if you have mac people who will be doing the imaging, go with mac, if you will have windows people, go with windows. Frank Thomson, Curator Asheville Art Museum PO Box 1717 2 South Pack Square Asheville, NC 28801 828.253.3227 tel. 828.257.4503 fax fthomson at ashevilleart.org www.ashevilleart.org -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stein, Marty Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:35 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: [MCN-L] Tricky question - is Mac "better" than PC? Hello, We are hoping that the wonderful members of mcn-l can help us with a question we are debating here in Houston. I hope this isn't a question that has been posed recently to the list and I've just missed it. We are currently involved in a project to convert out photo studio from film to digital. It's a very exciting project, but it has brought up an old question that I had hoped to avoid - the dreaded "Is Mac better for graphic applications than PC?" question. The MFAH is predominantly PC-based, with only a few Macs in our Graphics department. Our IT department would like to keep it this way, but a consultant has recommended that our new photo studio and imaging lab use Macs. Our current digital equipment is running on PCs and it seems to work just fine. Since we're making decisions about pretty expensive new equipment we want to make sure that we're not overlooking anything. Can anyone explain why Macs are better for graphics and digital imaging than PCs? Not just that graphic designers and photographers prefer Macs, but why they're different and better? This would be a great help and I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Marty Marcia (Marty) Stein Photographic Services Manager The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston PO Box 6826 Houston, Texas 77265-6826 Phone: (713) 639-7525 Fax: (713) 639-7557 Email: mstein at mfah.org _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
