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The best analogies for Mac vs. Win
Biggest questions I think we’ve all been getting for years:
Mac vs Windows? or FCP vs Avid?I’ve never cared either way, so for years my responses have been:
1.) “Build a house with either a nailgun or a hammer. As long as it holds together, the people living in it just don’t care.”
2.) “Just because you can buy Monet’s brush on eBay doesn’t mean you should cut art classes from the school budget. Worry about the craftsman, not the toolbelt.”I just heard a great new one:
“I don’t care if your new $100 coffee maker can burn Blue-Ray. If you keep using that Folgers crap, what was the point?”Any others?
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I sometimes say “an artist is not his tools”.
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[Mark Suszko] “I sometimes say “an artist is not his tools”.”
This is totally true, but if your brush is made from grain sorghum stalks, and your canvas actually cow hide still connected to the cow. It becomes very difficult to finish your creation effectivly.
Charlie
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mac is gooder than the other
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mac is popular with people who think gooder is a word
The mac is a computing appliance with wonderful industrial design that allows people afraid of computers to overpay for one and at the same time be protected from the scary things.
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mac feels like a modern swiss watch. pc feels like a 1980’s era timex.
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And the beauty is that both do the exact same thing–tell the time.
Mike.
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[Arson XL] “mac is popular with people who think gooder is a word”
LOL!
I believe the Mac argument has an edge in the virus department because those who write viruses like to have some effect on the world.
🙂
I think the funniest thing in the world is that the integration of the Intel processors have pretty much revealed that the “Megahertz Myth” was actually the truth…which we found out when we switched from Mac 6 years ago.
If/when there is an advantage to switching back…I’ll switch.
However…the price reductions have made the new Macs cheaper PCs than Dell. I suspect the Mac will start to sell into areas it may not have in the past.
So Charlie…which computer is metaphorically “still attached to the cow”?
LOL!
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[person] “mac feels like a modern swiss watch. pc feels like a 1980’s era timex”
Heh – a 1980’s era Timex – I had a few of those. Had a few Casio potatoes on my wrist too. Never owned a swiss watch though. Never needed to. At any given minute, there’s about a dozen clocks/watches/desktops/laptops/cells/Palms/Pocket PCs/Blackberries/PSPs/pens with LCD clocks/and microwave ovens in my field of view.
I really do think Avid & FCP; Windows & Mac all work equally great. Never watched a movie and said “That was obviously done on a G4”.
Guess I’m just an edit-slut with no loyalties. I’ll go to bed with any system that fills my immediate needs. Actually, I use many edit systems as a means of supplying my clients. Does that make me an edit-pimp?
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Macs start up slower and shut down faster. PCs start up faster and shut down slower. But it seems to me that whatever you want to do, it takes at least one additional keystroke to do it on a PC. Mac is inovative and PCs copy what Mac develops. It’s the tail waggin’ the dog. Mac is a “creative” and PC is a “suit”.
Chaz S.
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that’s nice. and true.
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