Uhm, because he is correct. I am a professional graphic artist and I can tell you that Macs ARE the industry standard for graphic design. There is no need for him to "justify" his purchase with that fact. I was forced to switch to Macs when I stopped working freelance. After the week or so it took to fully understand how to interface with the new computer, I never once looked back. Now I work on my Mac Pro and couldn't be happier with it.
I run a design company and we are all PC based. We have a single mac that collects a lot of dust.
Quite frankly, every major tool for design exists on PC and Mac, and strong equivalents when it comes to the few that don't match up (like final cut).
We chose to go PC because we found that the hardware is much cheaper to keep upgraded. Faster computers = faster artists, and that makes us all happy. In addition, over time we found that we were spending less on software. We can often find sales on PC software where we never found such on the mac. Extreme cases where Microsoft gave away Office 2007 if you bothered to watch 4 videos a few months ago.
Macs are cool looking computers, but they are NOT the industry standard in design. In fact, they are just a platform that holds software tools, of which many are industry standard AND multi-platform.
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Mike I @ Aug 8th 2007 2:36AM
Uhm, because he is correct. I am a professional graphic artist and I can tell you that Macs ARE the industry standard for graphic design. There is no need for him to "justify" his purchase with that fact. I was forced to switch to Macs when I stopped working freelance. After the week or so it took to fully understand how to interface with the new computer, I never once looked back. Now I work on my Mac Pro and couldn't be happier with it.
Brian McBride @ Aug 8th 2007 2:38PM
I run a design company and we are all PC based. We have a single mac that collects a lot of dust.
Quite frankly, every major tool for design exists on PC and Mac, and strong equivalents when it comes to the few that don't match up (like final cut).
We chose to go PC because we found that the hardware is much cheaper to keep upgraded. Faster computers = faster artists, and that makes us all happy. In addition, over time we found that we were spending less on software. We can often find sales on PC software where we never found such on the mac. Extreme cases where Microsoft gave away Office 2007 if you bothered to watch 4 videos a few months ago.
Macs are cool looking computers, but they are NOT the industry standard in design. In fact, they are just a platform that holds software tools, of which many are industry standard AND multi-platform.