MAC transition to PC…

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

Absolutely.
But seriously… moving from Mac to PC now that new Macs can run both Mac OS and Windows natively? 🙂
Anyway, the projects will work. The most problematic part is typography. It’s very common that font files change names and you get errors for fonts as if they weren’t there even if they are. If you work with Opentype fonts, it won’t be a problem:they are cross-platform. But Postscript or Truetype can be more problematic (Macs can use Windows fonts, but not the other way around).

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo(AT)adolforozenfeld.com

[Majorasshole]

perhaps he’s started working at a workplace with a pc only environment?

[Julian Sixx]

Hi
[Adolfo Rozenfeld] “now that new Macs can run both Mac OS and Windows natively”

That sounds good!Is it win 32 or win 64 that run on a mac pro now?

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

In which cave you been the last six months, Julian? 🙂
Just kidding.
The current implementation is for Win32, I imagine. Windows XP, basically. But that is related to the fact that until the Mac Pro, all Intel Macs so far used Core Duo, which is 32 bit only. The dual boot system, called Boot Camp, works like a charm. It provides support for Apple specific hardware (keyboard, isight, trackpad, etc.) in Windows XP. There is also a virtualization solution called Paralells Desktop that allows you to run Windows applications inside of Mac OS X. But Open GL support and such things don’t work as well as in Boot Camp.

A related, interested subject is that Apple previewed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It works natively in both 32 and 64 bits. No need for a dedicated 64 bits version. And the same application can automatically run as a 32 bit or 64 bit app depending on which processor you’re using. Anyway, you surely are aware that 64 bit computing doesn’t provide a huge speed increase per se. Current processors have had 64 and 128 bits vector processing units for some time. And most video and audio applications are optimized for those already.

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo(AT)adolforozenfeld.com

[Julian Sixx]

Hi
[Adolfo Rozenfeld] “In which cave you been the last six months, Julian? :)”
in a windows cave 🙂

I’m looking for a new machine.I own Adobe Production Studio.I’m not sure if i should buy a Mac Pro or stay with a Win system.Any benefits with a Mac compared to PC?

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

Julian: The first rule of living in web forums like these is avoiding “platform wars”.
I obviously prefer Macintosh systems, for a number of reason. But I don’t know if it would be right to go there in this forum.
Without going into better or worse, I can say:
With Windows you can run the whole Adobe Production Studio, as you know.
With a Mac you can run After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator (among many other options, of course). Premiere doesn’t exist on the Mac anymore and Encore was never released on the Mac. This is simply because most Mac users (myself included) prefer Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Notice than on a Mac you can run the Apple applications and the Adobe applications I mentioned before, and reboot under Windows XP to use whatever Win application I want.
I think I have been fair and avoided conflicts, haven’t I?
All the best!

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo(AT)adolforozenfeld.com

[Erik Lindahl]

If you need the kind of power a Mac Pro gives you (Quad Xeon 5100 system) it’s very good value for your money – even cheaper than Dell or home-brew systems.

Other than that I know facilities that send files Mac -> PC -> Mac -> PC and the two problems they had where font’s and filenames, especially long names with non-US characters. This included layers in Photoshop too. This was however prior to AE7 so things might have changed (AE still doesn’t handle longer than 32 char filenames which is a bit 1991, but hey…).

So with some discipline you should be able to do it fine.

[Adolfo Rozenfeld]

All current Mac models are very competitively priced, IMO, if you consider the hard specs AND the R&D costs for Mac specific features. The technology that lights a laptop keyboard depending on level of ambient light, the one that turns off the hard drive when it detects the laptop is falling, the remote control that drives consumer applications, the magnetic connector that releases the machine so it doesn’t fall when you go over the cable and so on have to be invented, researched and tested. Given that, and the latest Intel processors and chipsets, the current Mac systems’ price is a steal. The exception is probably the iMac, but such a stunning design is probably worth the price for people who want it.

Adolfo Rozenfeld
Buenos Aires – Argentina
https://www.adolforozenfeld.com
adolfo(AT)adolforozenfeld.com