RE: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic

["Mark Cohen" <markc@binaryfaith.com>]

Slobodan, 

Sorry to rain on your parade, I think your figures are somewhat out of
date. Actually, most design houses now use PCs. MACs are significantly
more expensive than PCs and ALL of the standard design/graphics software
is available for Windoze. Not to mention the cost of management of PCs
is quite a bit lower than MAC management. Sure, the smaller design
houses might use MacOS, mostly because they've been brainwashed.. Don't
get me wrong, Apple makes great hardware, but their prices are sill
fairly high for the quality of their hardware/os. Im not sure where Stud
city is (Though I know where Studio City is) and LA is far from being
Technologically advanced. Up here in Sillycon Valley, the large firms
used to use SGI boxes for their graphics, IRIX was considered the best
for Multiuser Multitasking graphics processing. SGI has taken a dump and
people are pretty much using Linux on PCs *Beowolf Clusters* 

I personally am not a PC or MAC fan, but I don't see why you would want
to spend 2 to 3 times as much for essentially the same thing.

- -Mark



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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of S Dimitrov
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 5:42 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic


Well, why didn't you say so from the beginning. The Mac is in a league
of its own when it comes to graphics, i.e. photoshop etc.. I personally
don't know of any graphic house, or even an ad agency that uses a PC for
graphics. You might be able to find one in their accounting dept.
crunching numbers, but not at the art director's or designer's desk. I
photographed a director the other day at a studio in Stud City. Went to
the editing room, a building really, to get a hold of him. I must of
seen over 20 G4s on racks side by side. The hands on people all had Mac
laptops in front of them. I did have to drag the director away from his
ebay  bidding, on a Mac needless to say.
    Slobodan Dimitrov 


Simon Lamb wrote:
> 
> Mark
> 
> Thanks to you and others who have responded.  I asked the question 
> because I want to get a new Mac to replace my PC for Photoshop work 
> amongst other things.  The Dual G4 is expensive and I wanted to know 
> if I would get better performance out of a 800 or 900MHz G4 single 
> processor than a 1.5 or 2GHz P4.  I am new to Mac and I want to ensure

> that whatever I purchase will have a reasonably long 'shelf-life' of 
> good performance.
> 
>
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