Posted by Karla! at pcp01118684pcs.flshng01.mi.comcast.net on July 07, 2002 at 21:46:22:
In Reply to: Mac posted by arcinference on July 07, 2002 at 21:20:37:
: At the risk of stepping into the religious zealotry as to preferred
operating systems: Apple, specifically OS X, is likely the preferred
choice.
: 1) Apple’s editing tools are generally viewed, with good reason, as
superior - particularly at a given price point.
: 2) OS X, Unix-based, but with a user-friendly interface, is simply a
more robust, more powerful OS.
: 3) There is a slight price premium if you compare box-to-box
relative to a beige-box PC, but this likely vanishes if you take into
account the software bundled with the Apple, and certainly vanishes if
your main interest is video work.
: 4) Lastly, Apple has been aggressively acquiring visual effects
software houses in the last few months, and this is likely to lead to
more good things.
: 4) I’ve worked with both PCs and Macs, and would attempt to be
fairly open-minded. If you, for some reason, require a particular piece
of software available only on the Wintel platform, fine. If you don’t, the
Mac seems to me simply the superior tool - particularly for video or
audio work. OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) will ship soon and will further raise
the Mac bar.
: 5) As to the ‘style’ issue so frequently raised in these discussions,
imho this is largely a canard. I fail to appreciate why a superior tool
should have superior style held against it - ever consider a well-
crafted tool? The flat-panel iMac, for example, for all its style,
presents a compact form with a superior, easy-to-adjust display itself
of superior quality. On the whole Apple’s products display similar
superior functionality.