01-05-2012, 03:20 PM
(01-05-2012, 02:54 PM)Fragma Wrote: Honestly though if you put a Mac and a PC with the same specs side by side and compared how Photoshop for example, performed on each, you wouldn't even notice any difference at all.
The only reason Macs are seen as a graphic designers choice of computer is down to their advertising, and brainwashing powers, which, credit to them, has worked. A lot of graphic designers will use Macs rather than PCs, because they've been brainwashed into thinking they're essential, when they just aren't at all.
If you were a company and needed computers, what would you do? Buy 5 Macs or 10 PC's?? Knowing that the more you have the more work you'll get done? I know I'd rather have 10 PC's....
Side note: I use Macs every single day at college so I've experienced the best of both worlds quite thoroughly. Yeh Windows can lag with certain Adobe programs quite a lot, but it happens just as often on Macs. The amount of times I've felt like smashing the screen after staring at that stupid coloured spinning wheel on the screen....
Yeah i've read and i'm well aware of your advertising point. But what are you going to do if you're forced to use a Mac in a course by standard image created by their marketing? I'd rather buy 1PC over even having 10Macs personally. I could understand the company/bussiness part about having 5 Macs or 10PC's because Mac's are definitely overpriced, so that's a better managed budget to buy Windows in my opinion. But if you're forced to conform to the image of being professional what are you going to do with all of those people who take something for what it is based on what they hear? And for how good Apple is in the marketing industry?
I'm used to Windows though, so even though i've read about this stuff, and even if it was true that Mac's were better to some extent, i'm more familiar in Windows by FAR, and therefore learning the Mac to where i'm at with Windows would be a waste of time, considering that even with where i'm at in Windows based graphic design is enough for my purposes.