On 12 Nov 2001, at 19:50, Cotty wrote: > These days it's more to do with what you're weened with, computer-wise. > If you grow up with PCs, you tend to stay with them. The 2 graphic > designers at our place grew up with PCs, and feel uneasy using the Mac. > But that's only because they're used to the PC. There's no reason that > they shouldn't continue to use the PC in their graphics environment, if > that's what they feel happy with. It was the bosses who bought the Mac, > cos they equated graphic design with Macintosh, now an outdated view. > > People use the Mac because they *want* to. Most people use a PC because > they have to...
Hi Coty et. al, I've stayed out of the debate till now but you've struck the nail on the head. Its all about what you've been weaned on. The fact is now that there are a lot more newbies on PC than Macs, most Mac users have been doing so for some time so obviously their computer competence is going to be higher. However for seasoned PC users there are now no real obstacles for using PC in a photo-graphics environment and in fact I would say now maybe PC's actually have the advantage over Macs (this is of course if they have been set up by someone who knows what they are doing, and the Microsoft team who wrote the install routines don't). My desk-top is available in the time that it takes my monitor to warm up, it is secure as I log off and it is all run by a lowly 300MHz processor. WRT stability I can only say that my working W2K work-station gets flogged, daily it sees Photoshop, email, excel, word, pdf writing/reading, pdf generation, web/java development and testing, film scanning, mp3 coding, mp3 playing/mixing, ftp, database design, CD writing, batch image compression, image database etc.. I had to shut it down before I went travelling last and it had been up for 85 days continuously (remember I am not talking about a server, my NT4 server had been up for over a year) and had transferred over 1,000 million 1kB packets to and from my network. I would like to see a Mac do this, having worked in and served the pre-press industry I can tell you that I have never seen this type of stability. See: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~geroc/networkcon2.JPG When I got back from my vacation I powered up my network and my PC has now been up for 32 days and has since transferred just over 400 million packets. This box took me over a day to build from scratch as all the drivers, updates, applications and patches need to be loaded in a very specific order to achieve the optimum performance and stability, My hardware is all premium quality and was selected as much for the driver stability as for the physical spec. I guess that this PC would have cost more than the equivalent Mac, this doesn't bother me in the slightest. This particular set of hardware has been in operation now for well over four years and I will be dumping virtually all of it when I finally decide to upgrade and I won't be buying a Mac (which by the way are hideously expensive in Oz). Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
