[Mr.Buttocks]

Originally Posted by Short Hand

BEING IN THE MEDIA Industry ill lay it down for ya... PLAIN and simple.


Macs for years were the standard PERIOD.

-They had the software,
-They had the reliability
-They had speed, power, and OS refinement needed to be the favourite.
-MOST of all, when it came to ANY grapohics suite, MACS were the way to go.



BUT this all changed a couple years ago... The day Apple decided to give up its proprietary superiority and go the way of Intel. (Not to mention they were going to fall behind anyways since the G family was not keeping up with the Intel's and AMD chips.


-SO The once mighty superiority of the apple platform had vanished, and now technically speaking, Speed wise, benchmarks have shown the PC's match MAC's.....

-The software giants are no longer going exclusively MAC, Adobe has come to match Final cut pro with Premier, and overtake Apple in the post production department with after effects. Quark once the only standard (Page Maker being a joke)... Is now being threatened by Indesign.

-OS refinement really became an almost null issue with the launch of Win2k. PC's showed they were just as stable at that point (if not more stable), and launch after launch, Microsoft is keeping pace with its own GUI..... Keeping it plushy, and quirky for the bustling masses.


SO where does the problem lie ?


-Image.. IT is ALL about image. Mac's have it, PC's do not. and by nature, idiots are attracted to bright shiny things......



(Do not get me wrong though, I have a Dual G5 work horse machine AND I LOVE IT, but the day I spend 5k for a fully loaded Intel Mac..... YA RIGHT .

[elstatec]

Originally Posted by Mr.Buttocks

ROFL.


anyway theres no problem with vista. think the biggest problem is that they have left xp too open and still supported to the max which stops people from upgrading because the price and because vista will use more resources up.

and i just like the plain features xp has over vista anyway

[rudedog]

I was the biggest mac basher of all time until Apple released an intel based machine.

So today I have
MBP 15"
24"iMac 3.06
13"Macbook - just picked this up for my oldest daughter
QX6850 main PC box for gaming - running xp
3 1U dual core PCs for network stuff around the house
x6800 running vista (daughters second box)
1 XP laptop (work)
1 XP laptop (wife)
P4 EE 3.04 vista (youngest daughter)
1 XP 15.4" laptop XP (located in the garage for quick googling when working on the car or truck)

All in all if it was not for gaming, I would be 100% mac only. Reason being it's both well written and has linux under the hood.

Now if you asked me to compare xp vs vista, I hate vista wth a passion. I have more issues with the vista boxes in the house (all updated to the latest sp) all running on very fast hardware including graphics cards.

TBH I'm trying to move all the kids and wife to mac. Makes my job of home IT manager much much easier.

Still need my PC based hardware to play games

[[DAS REICH] Blitz]

Originally Posted by Mr.Buttocks

thats the best smilie i've seen since the goatse one