I've always tended to work in a PC environment both work and home wise, with the odd foray into Macs here and there in certain work setups. But for the last almost couple of years I have been working in an all Mac environment in an archives, but linking into PC's/Microsoft on the wider scale.
Didn't have any problems that weren't fairly easily solved - and found the whole area of connecting to servers, backups, networks etc generally much easier to set up, configure and troubleshoot on the macs - even to microsoft stuff. Shouldn't be any problem with the Mac produced files - I didn't encounter any. I must say, in the end - for imaging, archives and museum work (databases, archives management systems etc) - I have come to much prefer the Macs - looking to afford to be able to eventually change over at home though... (my theory is they aren't more expensive in the end. You make up for it in the lesser amount of time and effort you spend on trying to fix and maintain Macs as compared to PC's - to say nothing of lower blood pressure - and they tend to last somewhat longer as well) tim a Tim Atherton e. tim at kairosphoto.com <mailto:tim at kairosphoto.com> t. 780.292.3881 archivist . curator . photographer "What would Derrida do?"
