Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In-house work has tended to be done by PC. My own, and some might say limited, experience has been that designers and photographers, for the most part, tend to use MAC. The larger firms sub-contratct to the smaller firms anyway, where the better work is done, again on MAC. As far as paying 2-3 times for a specific tonal range in the bells and whistles, well this a Leica list after all. Slobodan Dimitrov Mark Cohen wrote: > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > 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. > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html