In a message dated 8/2/2002 2:09:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> So I repeat the challenge! C'mon Brendan, borrow a Mac for a few > months!!!! > > (Disclaimer: I used a Windows 95 box for a few months as a personal test, > and I use NT machines at work when I'm there, which isn't often) > > Cheers to you whatever platform you're on, > > Cotty Oh, well, you slightly misunderstand Cotty. I love Macs! I have used them many times in the past and I can say that they're terrific little machines. In fact, the Macintosh original was the second Apple I used since my experience goes all the way back to the Apple II systems when I was in Junior High School. In Fact, if I ever get around to starting a home based photography business I'm considering a G4 setup and one of the 21" flat panel Mac displays. It's either that or a souped-up Dell system. In any case I would love a Titanium notebook. You see I really like Macs, I just can't afford them. The last time I used one for some period of time was in a lab at college when I was tweaking the soundtrack for a film I was involved in. It went smoothly. Again, it was a nice little machine. My point was the same as yours; computers are computers. It's just that certain people tend to gravitate to Macs because they believe them to be inherently better computers and I disagree with this premise. However, my wife uses a Mac every day and she loves them (except when her G4 died the other day, it's fixed now). She's in the printing business and she can tell you that many print houses will simply not accept artwork on PC formatted Zip disks. So, even though you can produce the same work on some good PC's, the industry is not yet set up to deal with it. Macs are still overwhelmingly the choice for designers and others in the video/film/music editing arena. But PC's are making very good headway in these areas. As my friend Nick used to tease me, "get a Mac if you want to do something creative." Hah! Well, you see what I mean? In the end, I understand that Macs were the first easy to use home computers. This is why they still carry the "better' reputation. While Mac users were busily clicking away and getting things done on their machines, frustrated PC users were having to go refer to their DOS 2.0 manual and look up the command to format a disk. It's a legacy that for some unknown reason PC's have never been able to live down. -Brendan MacRae - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
