For Homeslice: Mac people and PC people

[Flexin]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

What I was saying was, if you're in the advertising business (i.e. an agency) it's a very Mac-intensive industry. The majority of the people you hire are going to be Mac experts, and the majority of outside vendors (printers, graphic arts, video people) you work with and share files with will be Mac users to. Under those circumstances, what would be the point of switching to PCs?

I understand that they use them. I have a friend who is a photographer and he uses one. He likes them but doesn't love everything about them.

My point was there is a small percentage of businesses that would need a mac. Avatard was trying to say that any serious business person would/should have one. I strongly disagree with that.

James

[Avatard]

Perhaps I should have said "any serious business person that actually requires media" (which nowadays means most).

It is THE media computer.

Music
Video
Graphics

...And you can run Windows and Linux on it too, so in business, there's not much chance someone will walk in with something in a format you can't touch.

They start at $699, and the Mini is F-A-S-T. "Too expensive" just isn't an excuse anymore.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

parallels/boot camp makes operating systems meaningless.

If it requires a reboot to access, then it doesn't make the O/S meaningless. Virtual Machines are a different story.

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Flexin

My brother is in law school and almost everyone there uses a Mac from what he says. He made it almost 2 full years of law school with a Netbook.

James

I think the only software you need in law school is a word processor and Google.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

If it requires a reboot to access, then it doesn't make the O/S meaningless. Virtual Machines are a different story.

parallels is a virtual machine. I run that most of the time if I need a windows prob. If I am doing something that is ram intensive like gaming, then I will reboot into windows.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Trip

parallels is a virtual machine. I run that most of the time if I need a windows prob. If I am doing something that is ram intensive like gaming, then I will reboot into windows.

Right. Boot Camp is a boot manager. Parallels is essentially a VM. That's why I made the distinction. If something is too memory intensive as you put it, for the VM, then the O/S isn't irrelevant.

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

I think the only software you need in law school is a word processor and Google.

You might be able to get away with internet references, but you can't beat a good professional legal reference programme.

[Apoc]

Originally Posted by Avatard

They start at $699, and the Mini is F-A-S-T. "Too expensive" just isn't an excuse anymore.

Except that for 700$ can build a much faster PC that will be far better for media (creating, cutting, whatever you want to do), than any Mac out there.

Its nothing more than an image thing. When you admit that, we'll be getting somewhere.

[EpyonXero]

Originally Posted by Apoc

Except that for 700$ can build a much faster PC that will be far better for media (creating, cutting, whatever you want to do), than any Mac out there.

Its nothing more than an image thing. When you admit that, we'll be getting somewhere.

Its been proven time and time again that if you build a PC that matched what you get out of the box on a given Mac you will pay just as much and sometime even more. Not to mention the support and reliability you get with Apple.


http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...415_602968.htm

http://technologizer.com/2008/10/19/...ook-expensive/

there are hundreds more....

[shmike]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Perhaps I should have said "any serious business person that actually requires media" (which nowadays means most).

Serious business people don't deal in media unless that is their business.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by EpyonXero

Its been proven time and time again that if you build a PC that matched what you get out of the box on a given Mac you will pay just as much and sometime even more. Not to mention the support and reliability you get with Apple.


http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...415_602968.htm

http://technologizer.com/2008/10/19/...ook-expensive/

there are hundreds more....

Having worked in the desktop support arena since 1989 I have to disagree. Sure, when you look at the bottom end you might be getting roughly the same, but when you move up in performance there's quite a dollar gap.