hmm, good point about legally aquiring the software, i guess as a pc user i seem to forget that (getting anything i want really), and it funny you should mention using OS9, i know a few designers who have gone back to it after having trouble with OSX (these are non-techy types) theyre weere having issues with printer drivers and so on.
As a student i deinfitly dont have $750 to blow, so for that amount of money i wanted to get the most out of it, hence buying a faster pc in that price range. i have a damm fast P4 rather than an "emac"!!??? (damm if id ever buy one o those after using them) with the speed iv found mac much slower than ps in general, of course im looking forward to using a G5 (64mb baby).
I also find PC's easier to navigate with...(im not a big fan of mac key boards, or essp those damm mouses, i need my other mouse buttons!!) as well as OSX's GUI, i find it really annoying that to resize windows we are given just one corner, it just slows things down...of course if a could Afford it
id definitly have a G4 power book!
interesting points, but comming from a student point of view macs are a WHOLE lot more expensive. im a 4th year student at a design school. we run a total mac environment (as is done in the design industry) but as students if we buy a machine for our selves we have to go PC, as the macs are just too out of our league. i have a P4 running windows and redhat. the only way i can get design work done on a pc is to use windows as linux doesnt have the programmes avalible (photoshop, illustrator,indesign, flash are just so much more mature than open source stuff ive come across)
and this works fine until transfering files to mac, which can be bitchy! as the macs get fussy (and vice versa).
the interesting thing is we have nothing but problems with the x-serve, and the G4's, they are generally much slower than a pc the design students seem to be waiting around for things to process rather than designing!!
remember macs arent just there for an IT purpose or number crunching...theyre helping the design industry to slow down as well!!
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hmm, good point about legally aquiring the software, i guess as a pc user i seem to forget that (getting anything i want really), and it funny you should mention using OS9, i know a few designers who have gone back to it after having trouble with OSX (these are non-techy types) theyre weere having issues with printer drivers and so on.
As a student i deinfitly dont have $750 to blow, so for that amount of money i wanted to get the most out of it, hence buying a faster pc in that price range. i have a damm fast P4 rather than an "emac"!!??? (damm if id ever buy one o those after using them) with the speed iv found mac much slower than ps in general, of course im looking forward to using a G5 (64mb baby).
I also find PC's easier to navigate with...(im not a big fan of mac key boards, or essp those damm mouses, i need my other mouse buttons!!) as well as OSX's GUI, i find it really annoying that to resize windows we are given just one corner, it just slows things down...of course if a could Afford it id definitly have a G4 power book!
interesting points, but comming from a student point of view macs are a WHOLE lot more expensive. im a 4th year student at a design school. we run a total mac environment (as is done in the design industry) but as students if we buy a machine for our selves we have to go PC, as the macs are just too out of our league. i have a P4 running windows and redhat. the only way i can get design work done on a pc is to use windows as linux doesnt have the programmes avalible (photoshop, illustrator,indesign, flash are just so much more mature than open source stuff ive come across) and this works fine until transfering files to mac, which can be bitchy! as the macs get fussy (and vice versa). the interesting thing is we have nothing but problems with the x-serve, and the G4's, they are generally much slower than a pc the design students seem to be waiting around for things to process rather than designing!! remember macs arent just there for an IT purpose or number crunching...theyre helping the design industry to slow down as well!!