Jim, you've summed up my experience much better than I was doing it. I too work in the "advertising" world at a post house. I LOVE working on my Mac (Could have something to do with the beautiful 30" Cinema Screen ;-) ), but the work I do on it is more on the creative side. I help out with the web developers in the Adobe CS3 apps, browse the internet, and check mail.
As soon as I need to do any network troubleshooting, I jump on the PC. I like the tools better (it could be the years of familiarity, too.) I also think Office on my PC is WAY better than on the Mac. Maybe I am just a sucker for marketing. Who knows. As for science, I don't have empirical data to share. I haven't had to dig that deep into it. My experience with the Adobe products isn't bad at all on Windows. It just seems, to me, to be a lot smoother on the Mac. And as far as Firefox goes,, it seems like I run into memory consumption issues on the PC with 15+ tabs open. But again, it's not bad. I wouldn't say I have problems on the PC, so I haven't really dug in under the hood. On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Kennedy, Jim wrote: > In typical use, they are not faster imho. So there is no switch to > flick. However if you use them professionally in areas that they > shine they are faster. I did six years in a big advertising agency, > and still do the support for my brother in-law's agency. And at the > same time we have a big Mac lab here for the students to learn CS3/4 > and video editing. > > Open PhotoShop with four or five big high res tiff's and open a 60 > page color corporate report in In-Design (that is pretty much > complete) and link the photo's into the InDesign document. Then > start retouching the images. Big adjustments like noise reduction > and so on and bounce back and forth as you do each image and adjust > the placement of the images and force the 60 pages to > reflow......you will quickly see the difference between a Mac and a > PC in this scenario. And what I describe is the typical day to day > use of a Mac in an advertising agency, and that is where they are > faster. > > Unlike you, I hate Macs and it is the primary reason I got out of IT > in the Advertising industry but there are some things they do > better, much better. However I don't think it is a Mac vs PC issue > as much as it is a long term cooperative effort between the Mac OS > writers and Adobe. Lets face it, MS does not have a great reputation > for cooperating with other software vendors. > <trimmed> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
