Post #157008 by suicide_sam on Fri, May 6, 2005 11:15 AM

Mac? wow I still hold a fondness for my Atari system too but I won't claim it's superior to an X-Box witha straight face.

I'll say this for Apple, they make pretty computers!

I'm just waiting for them to come out with one they just blatantly call the Mac Eyecandy.

Haha, I'm just giving you guys shit. I startedout on a mac in art school, but had to make teh switch to PC after school when I started doing comouter animation for a living. As someone who has used both I find PCs superior by far. I understand Mac users are very loyal to their macs and more power to them. As for me, I just personally prefer working a PC.

As far as what I have noticed about other Mac users who finally make the switch they all seem to be the same way I was. When I worked at Rezn8 productions all the animators were on PCs and all the designers were on Macs. Eventually all the designers were also given a PC so they could start getting used to working on a PC since there were programs they would be needing like 3d Max and Digital Fusion that are just no there for Macs, but they were allowed to keep their Macs. Once the designers got used to the PC every single designer in the office said they had no need for their Mac anymore. All the Adobe programs designers use are also on PC but there were to many things that were just on PC and not on Mac. The only person in the whole office that did not give up her Mac was a producer who was not very computer literate and needed something more for email and for schedules and not actually for design or animation work.

In the end the only thing that matters is getting the job done and if you are more quickly able to get the job done with a Mac then that is what you should use. If you are more quickly able to get the job done with a PC then that's what you should use. I find Mac users act liek a religion about their Mac. They say it's the right choice and anyone who disagrees just hasn't seen the light yet. PC users are not as cultish about it because most have most been past Mac users. My preferance is for the PC, but I have had two PCs just die on me in the past. I have also had a Mac die on me so I know that the story about how only PCs crash and corrupt your files is just that, a story. But like I said, in the end you should use whatever gets the job done. Since I'm an animator I use a PC, I know plenty of designers who still are on Mac.