What do you use?

jrjphoto wrote:
Mac = Beer? I would rather have likened it to a fine wine.

I'm a Mac user, about to take the 2x 120GB RAIDed HDs and turn them into external storage for pics. I have a few 20ish HDs floating about and are about to get added to the mix. I have in the order of 100GB of pics as it is from the first 10K+ pics taken w/ my 10D.

Have you tasted a finely crafted homebrew vs budweiser or coors? If the aforementioned it the context of what he is saying, then right on! I brew my own and it can't even compare to the mass produced stuff. Now if you are a wine person, the same applies, the old wine in a box vs a port. Speaking of beer, it is cool taking a pic of Guinness as it settles in a pub in Bunratty, Ireland. Been there, done that!

Damn it, Canuck: You've made me thirsty! I'll meet you at the pub in 10.

We'll be sipping the new Apple iBeer.

Mmmm... alcoholic beverages that use their memory more effectively and are far more reliable and less prone to hardware/OS incompatabilities than PCs and come preloaded with software that creative people will actually, truly find useful...

Bosman wrote:
In the headlines today:


Microsoft

Apple

In all seriousness, take a good look at Mac, and you might just be surprised.

I AM surprised...that MACs are still around! Now that Jobs has seen the light on Intel, it's just a matter of time. Now the ipod...thats a different story!

I use a Mac. Bought the MacBook Pro 15" after using a PC for many years and I've been extremely happy with it. You know what they say: "Once you go Mac, You'll never go back!"

I use a Mac.

Have owned PCs but I prefer using and owning a mac. Plus they're industry standards for what me and the missus do (design and journalism) so it doesn't make sense to use anything else. If I wanted to play games, have neon lights and an all the other nerd-fest type things then I'd buy a PC.

I use a mac. However i use a pc for my animation work. I think its daft to discount either. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.

This is interesting...

http://forums.macrumor​s.com/showthread.php?t​=180323

I use a PC at work but hug my Mac, each night, when I get home.

I used to be pretty biased against Macs but with the advances in compatibility and sheer number of programs available over the last 5 years, there is no compelling reason to buy a PC. Unless, you like games and/or need to run very specific or specialized programs.

My PC is old...a PIII 733, 512 RAM, 200 GB drive and an OLD 16 MB Voodoo Video card, but I have no issues with photoedits or running Photoshop CS2 or any other photo applications I need.

I'm not sure what the need for speed is, unless you are pumping out hundreds of photo edits as a profession. A dual core Pentium for photo edits? I guess I could see the need for you people with 16 MP cams, but an 8.2 MP shot? Definitely nice, but not necessary. Am I missing something here?

PC > Mac

i use both every day, plus sun & linux boxes for non-photo related stuff.

dual core G5, dual core AMD, macbook pro 17", dell d620, etc.

Wrong about Mac's and viruses. Brings the whole article into question. And yes as of the writing of the article (July 13, 2006 08:00 AM) there were Mac viruses. Although not in the abundance that PC's have seen.