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Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison
mnemonic writes "DigitalVideoEditing.com has posted its third Mac vs. PC comparison, dealing with performance in After Effects and Photoshop, graphics applications one might expect the Mac to be significantly faster in. It should be noted that the author, Charlie White, is a long-time PC supporter and disliker of Macs, though, as he shows, this preference is for as legitimate reasons as the ones devoted Mac users cite to disparage PC's. Ace's Hardware has another comparison that goes further in depth into the specifics of the G4, P4 and Athlon processors. As when comparing any two pieces of hardware, it's important to think not only of the relationship between performance and specification, but performance and price."
Any large file transfer will slow any OS down. The difference between Windows and Linux is that in Windows, you'll notice it a whole helluva lot more.
Another difference between Windows and a Unix-like OS is that in your Unix box, you can renice (basically weight) a process to make it have more or less processor time. In Windows, you just have to wait while you [insert intensive task here]. There is no option to throttle up or down a process.
At one point, it was Linux vs. Windows. Viscious(sp?) fights between the 2. Both sides made fun of Macs.
"Everyone is used to Windows." "Linux is better but everyone is used to Windows, and everyone needs to use Office."
OS X comes out... and now the *nix people are kinda ok with OS X (not quite as good, but hey, it's pretty neat), but the Windows people are in total "Macs suck no matter what" mode. "Not only do they use slower CPUs, they also use inferior plasitics in their cases!" "And they smell funny, like wet emus!" No mention that the Macs still can do Office.
Now in this article we have people saying the only reason that graphics/publication people are "still" using Macs are because they are "used to them, and everyone is used to xxx (I don't know what the top pubishing packages are)." Ok, so it's ok that everyone uses Office, but in the pub industry using xxx is bad, somehow?
Are we seeing some hypocrosy here?
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.