Apple v PC

[VitaminGee]

gaxan and Jinx many thanks.

VG

[Eddie_Crane]

Originally Posted by WeatherJinx

VG
It's almost certain that the college will be using the 'Holy Trinity' (Quark, Illustrator and Photoshop) and using them on Macs

Gotta quote this.
My sister works as p/t GD in London. The whole outfit she works for has Apple Macs as platform and the above-mentioned software running on them.
She personally works with a PPC Powerbook.

[pendrifter]

Mac or PC?

I've always used Macs working from home - mainly for typesetting and GD plus the usual accounts and household and personal things. My daughter at local sixth form uses PCs at college. She has no problems switching from one to the other, but seems to prefer the Mac. Mr Gates' stuff runs ok on the Mac (much to my annoyance! I am a die-hard Mac fan.)
Interestingly, the college installed a new iMac some months ago, which the IT bod seemed to be completely at sea with, and left it to my daughter to set-up!
It seems that most people who denigrate Macs have never tried one - in my experience those that do, never go back to PCs.
I get quite a bit of ribbing in the local, I'm the only one on a Mac; but it seems I can get in the local when ever I like, as I'm not the one having to worry and fight off virus attacks (That of course may change)
I remember an item on some site, where someone compared the price of a package plus all the extras they required from "a well known PC supplier" which totalled some £50 more than the same Apple bundle!!
It seems to me the old adage " you get what you pay for" applies.

[WeatherJinx]

I remember an item on some site, where someone compared the price of a package plus all the extras they required from "a well known PC supplier" which totalled some £50 more than the same Apple bundle!!

There's an excellent but lengthy article here (from a Linux site, no less!), which puts the fallacious 'PCs are cheaper than Macs' argument (often touted in here) to bed. Truth is, it's really down to what you want to use it for that ultimately determines cost of ownership, but most can't see past the ticket price. The fact is that the Mac comes ready to use for a consumer-level user, for example, while most PCs just come with an OS and some demos.

[Mac the Knife]

Originally Posted by WeatherJinx

....while most PCs just come with an OS and some demos.

Except that now you can download (or get off a magazine CD) pretty much everything you might need from an office suite to a webserver for free.

'Course it mightn't be quite so pretty or slick as shop and you might have to hunt some of it down, but free it is......

The equation is looking a bit fluid these days.

[WeatherJinx]

but free it is..

In what way does that diminish my point Mac? You can fill Macs up with free crap too. Except that you dont need to.

Macs arrive with a level of connectivity and world-class software unheard of in the PC world. You cannot even approach to do on a PC what a first time Mac user can do out of the box.

Now get back to yer Linux!