Posting will be slow again. I prefer the PC to Mac--I like that it's the stripped down "people's computer," more use it so more are sharing PC-centric stuff, it's the favorite of the workplace (same advantage--more users and surfers), it has better lo-fi (stupid) imaging programs, less self-consciously design-y graphics, and some of my favorite musical instrument makers are in Europe and they tend to design for PCs over there. The Mac users on the Native Instruments boards, for example, are constantly complaining they can't get things to work. Also, two friends with Mac laptops gripe that their DVD drives suffered mechanical failure within a few months of purchase, so the laptops could have that super-thin, elegant, "pull it out of your bag at Starbucks and log onto your design blog" look.
The downside of PCs running Windows, as we all know, is periodically you have to wipe your entire hard drive and reload the operating system and all your programs and data because lovable doofuses send you nasty bugs to show how smart and wackily malicious they are. That is what just happened to me--first time ever! My sound, picture and vid files are all backed up but lots of programs have to be re-installed. I'm typing this on an older computer pulled out of mothballs that miraculously still talks to the Net.
yep, that's everything in a nutshell.
I use a Mac G4 at home to make art and music. At work I use a Dell Optiplex 170L running Windows XP. Really, they are not all that different, but the Mac is cuter and sexier, and all my favourite art programs are Mac-only for the time being. After being at work all day I go home and get cornfused about, for example, Ctrl + S versus "Apple" + S to save stuff.
Then I come back to work and it all happens again in reverse.
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Posting will be slow again. I prefer the PC to Mac--I like that it's the stripped down "people's computer," more use it so more are sharing PC-centric stuff, it's the favorite of the workplace (same advantage--more users and surfers), it has better lo-fi (stupid) imaging programs, less self-consciously design-y graphics, and some of my favorite musical instrument makers are in Europe and they tend to design for PCs over there. The Mac users on the Native Instruments boards, for example, are constantly complaining they can't get things to work. Also, two friends with Mac laptops gripe that their DVD drives suffered mechanical failure within a few months of purchase, so the laptops could have that super-thin, elegant, "pull it out of your bag at Starbucks and log onto your design blog" look.
The downside of PCs running Windows, as we all know, is periodically you have to wipe your entire hard drive and reload the operating system and all your programs and data because lovable doofuses send you nasty bugs to show how smart and wackily malicious they are. That is what just happened to me--first time ever! My sound, picture and vid files are all backed up but lots of programs have to be re-installed. I'm typing this on an older computer pulled out of mothballs that miraculously still talks to the Net.
- tom moody 8-31-2005 12:31 am
yep, that's everything in a nutshell.
- Travis (guest) 8-31-2005 5:46 am
I use a Mac G4 at home to make art and music. At work I use a Dell Optiplex 170L running Windows XP. Really, they are not all that different, but the Mac is cuter and sexier, and all my favourite art programs are Mac-only for the time being. After being at work all day I go home and get cornfused about, for example, Ctrl + S versus "Apple" + S to save stuff.
Then I come back to work and it all happens again in reverse.
- Abraham Kalashnikov (guest) 9-01-2005 1:53 am