Re: [Leica] Absolutely, totally off-topic

[Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com>]

Since we are all Leica users, I would have imagined value-for-money or costs
should not be a critical issue.  You can buy a Ford or you can buy a BMW.
You can buy a PC or you can buy a Mac.  You can buy a Nikon or you can buy a
Leica.  You can have quality or you can have value.

I value quality and design above everything else.  I use a Mac and prefer a
BMW over a Ford, and would prefer to shoot with a Leica over a Nikon.

Macs still cost more, but only marginally so.  And as far as I am concerned,
I am more than happy to pay the extras for something more elegant, more user
friendly and has tons more character.

We all have our choices and decide accordingly.

Yours brainwashed,
Joseph
Mac user, BMW driver, and above all, Leica shooter. ;-)


on 12/3/02 2:12 pm, Mark Cohen at markc@binaryfaith.com 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 

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