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Well I feel I have to offset a bit the vast majority of Mac's used here with some PC's: In my office and at home I use more than 20 pc's (including SGI) running XP, Win200, NT and Linux. Also have 2 sun sparcs running Unix and 1 lonely Mac G4 which only has to run a browser to look at pictures coming in from the Reuters satellite.

To be honest, I did start out with more Mac's but in those days (1994) the Mac's weren't multi-tasking and, as a system engineer found out, they had a serious program fault in their network communication software which would crash all the macs on the network at least 10 times on a daily basis. I do believe that with OS X things have improve significantly and thruth be told; they do look good!:cool:

rgds,

 

Etienne

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I'm not surprised by the outcome of this poll, at all. The same goes for the music creation business. I would guess that less than 10% use PC. Apple always has been for creative work and creative people. Always has been, always will be.

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Macs were first embraced by the artists because the interface was, and still is . . . a right brained thing.

 

But honestly, I've used both for years . . . there's really nothing to compare between them, for they are merely machines that process two numbers via electrons at high rates of speed, that's all. :)

 

~jk

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My Psudo G5

 

Asus A8V Deluxe

Athlon 64 4200+ Dual Core

2Gb Ram

Maxtor Ultra Scsi 320 HDD

Maxtor Diamond Max SATA

ATI Fire GL Video Card (Work Station) "You don't want a gaming Video Card for Post Processing or CAD".

800 Watts Power Supply

NEC Multisync 1970GX (19" LCD)

Win XP

 

I didn't use the 2nd slot for two video card. I have enough mess in my computer desk to accomodate a second monitor. Such a way that I'm contemplating in replacing my desk with a Party Table. Then all gizmos should fit and arrange better.

 

I do all my assembly and configuration since waaaaaaaaay back 386DX2. on a Win 3.0

 

Yeah, I have an Apple... it's called the Ipod. =)

I sure want to buy a Mac, but currently my bedroom now looks like an office. That's enough for now

 

-Ron

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A very old G4 (933) but with 1,5 Go RAM, Dell 21 High Res screen (2,2) but no color calibration (quite good results with the Mac calibration system for quite a few color prints from slides scanned with a Nikon LS 5000 as far as I am doing mainly B & W !!!)

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Dyed in the wool PC user but considering buying a Mac Book Pro, 17" version plus the 30" display to see how things are on the other side. Question. The lap top is available with a choice of matt or glossy screen. Any comments?

 

Mark,

 

Congratulations for the decision to upgrade your computer.:)

 

The glossy screen; looks good when the computer is off or the first ten seconds when you turn it on. It is impossible to work on images. You see the reflections of everything in the room. The whites and blacks are artificial.

 

For a photographer, the definite choice is matt screen.

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Wow--a lot of Macs!

 

Here, it's all IBM-style PCs...

 

The main computer is a home-made Intel 3.4GHz processor / Intel Mobo running 2GB RAM, with Adaptec Ultra SCSI 320 15K RPM Seagate Cheetah drives for main work (faster throughput than SATA), plus a Redhat LINUX server and two or three IBM laptops running XP Pro. My partner has a Dell something or other, I think. No Macs, because I build a computer for myself whether I like it or not every couple of years :) Keeps it fresh!

 

Oh--this year it's a Vista, 6GB and core2 duo upgrade. Yay--Windows with more memory!!

 

In fact, the only thing Apple here is an iPod or two, but I figure that will be a Mac before long ;)

 

For colour, I'm using Gretag Macbeth Eye One Photo (the spectro version) with GM ProfileMaker Pro 5.08. I also have Fuji's profiling software for editing and printmaking.

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