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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Wow, look at the Mac haters come to life 
You guys can call me anything you wanna call me - I promise, I won't lose any sleep over it. I've been a PC user for 15 years. I would like to think that in that amount of time..I learned my way around the PC pretty well. After spending 8 months with a Mac, my experience has shown that things are just faster & easier with a Mac. I enjoyed the Mac experience so much that I recently bought a second one. And this summer...I'll buy a MacBook Pro for our location work. If this somehow makes me inferior to all the he-man PC users out there - I'm fine with that. I have no problem with that at all. I know what works for me and that's all that really matters. Carry on.... |
MACS just work. You don't have to research it to see if its tested with your software/hardware it just works. They don't make many viruses and spyware for MAC so you are less likely to get viruses if your a guy who just downloads from random sources. This is a smart choice for the guy that doesn't know anything about internet security, the configuration of his hardware, and what the specs are on his machine.
If you are a PC guy like me who has a little knowledge of hardware that can build 4 PCs that will smoke a MAC for that same price why not have 4 machines that can render 4 projects at once for the same price. I haven't had a virus since the 90's and I haven't had to format a drive since then etiher. I learned real quick on a PC to download from trusted sources. Better yet get a cheap laptop for downloading your files and just keep your work machine seperate. Better yet do a little research about what graphics chipset, hard drives, and sound card you have and you will have a ROCK SOLID video editing/multimedia powerhouse that will smoke a MAC if you add the right speed hard drives, a
REAL TIME graphics card made for YOUR editing software, and enough memory.
It doesn't matter what machine you use as long as its stable and your not an guy who downloads torrents on your editing machine. A little research goes a long way.
If you buy this graphics card
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_quadro_cx_us.html
for Adobe Premiere CS4 you can encode 4 X faster then any MAC PRO ever dreamed about. I wonder how many MAC guys know how to change out their graphics cards (HAHAHA)
MAC is a no brainer though for guys like DEAN that just want to plug and go. I will agree with you there. But if you wanted to build and edit bay spend your money on a faster video card for rendering, not a brand name, unless you are just too busy to fuck with it like DEAN which most of you don't have time to learn all this shit. Good thing I know how to configure PCs otherwise I would probably hate them as well and buy and overpriced MAC thats not as fast as my setup.