On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 17:34 +0800, Christian Kotz wrote: > I've been told that Mac's traditionally do better in the roles of > creativity anyway in comparison to PC's. A lot of PC users understand > this but is it a myth?
It used to be true, back in the MacOS 7 vs win311 days when there was just no comparison. I don't think it's really all that significant anymore. > I would like to know as I planned to move into > this field as a career but if I won't be seeing many Macs it could be > concerning. I've used Premiere on a PC and gee, I was impressed... :P, > Constant crashing etc real productive. I think it's much of a muchness, really. Depends on what you prefer to work with. You can get all the important apps for both, and the colour management on both platforms is broken in various ways so you'll end up using the apps' built in colour management no matter what platform you use. For me, the biggest single factor is that Windows apps mostly use these ghastly MDIs (multiple-document-interface, ie window-within-a-window) that I simply cannot stand. Not that I'm fond of Apple's weird window management either (switching apps not windows), as a long term UNIX user, but it's at least a little less nasty than an MDI. I've found stability on both to be excellent (well, MacOS 9 is always poor stability-wise, I mean MacOS/X and above) if the OS and apps are properly configured, and stability on both to be awful if they're not. It's easier to get it wrong with a PC though, in particular because many virus scanners and personal firewalls are pure evil and worse than the problems they try to solve, and because bad software is more able to harm your system's stability on a PC. You also need to be very careful about spyware etc. On the other hand, in the mid-range you get a lot more grunt for the buck with a PC IMO. Depending on the work you do, that may matter a lot. Right now, I really don't know what I'd pick. I'm an experienced sysadmin, so I can make Windows behave its self, and I'm more familar with x86 - but I /like/ the UNIX-like innards of MacOS/X even after all the butchery Apple have commmited on them. In the end, I think I'd suggest you make the decision based on what platform you're most comfortable working on. -- Craig Ringer
