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| Thread ID: 111791 | 2010-08-11 22:51:00 | The main diff re Aple | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 1126780 | 2010-08-12 00:00:00 | You mean iMac I presume, they don't make eMacs anymore. The new iMacs have ATI Radeon Yeah iMac rather. True, well either way, mainstream graphics chip not some special exclusive thing. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1126781 | 2010-08-12 03:28:00 | The "Apple is better for art\design\video etc" is just a myth, most likely the result of some very good advertising strategy. Perhaps back in 1995 the Mac had better software than the IBM PC, I don't really know. But the Windows PC now certainly has more than enough software and power to do whatever you need. Using Apple now, you will get the same results, but probably end up paying more. A lot of Graphic designers learnt on Macs at school hence a more widespread use in commerce. I don't believe Macs have better graphic cards per se though. I wonder which company donated or gave discounts to the schools to buy the Macs? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1126782 | 2010-08-12 04:14:00 | I wonder which company donated or gave discounts to the schools to buy the Macs? You mean to tell me that MS don't do that?;) |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1126783 | 2010-08-12 04:20:00 | I know mac has Final Cut which is quite powerful, I don't know of any PC equivalent... Adobe Premiere Pro is available in both PC and Mac flavours. While it is not identical to Final Cut it is at least as powerful. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1126784 | 2010-08-12 05:53:00 | It's a historic thing, I think. If I'm remembering correctly, it was mainly due to the availability of design software, notably things like PageMaker (since replaced by Adobe InDesign), which were only available for Mac OS. These days, any application of real note in this category is also available on Windows, so it no longer really matters which system is used - but as macs are now entrenched in the industry, they're still extremely popular in that field. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 1126785 | 2010-08-12 06:05:00 | It's a historic thing, I think. If I'm remembering correctly, it was mainly due to the availability of design software, notably things like PageMaker (since replaced by Adobe InDesign), which were only available for Mac OS. These days, any application of real note in this category is also available on Windows, so it no longer really matters which system is used - but as macs are now entrenched in the industry, they're still extremely popular in that field. Friend who is a bit of a snob,seems to get a superior feeling,and wouldn't know diff at all. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1126786 | 2010-08-12 06:35:00 | What I know is that some photog friends have it and some of the well known authors in photog books. Dunno the real reason thou. I have a fully calibrated system here, Win7, well, the images still don't look the same in Windows or Firefox when compared to say Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1126787 | 2010-08-12 07:17:00 | The answer is no. And you have to spend considerably more on a Mac to get capabilities equal to a PC. This is (though the logic escapes me) why some people feel they are superiour for buying one,Perhaps its that they have so much money to spend they get a kick out of an ignorant purchase. It seems to work for Hi-Fi stores..... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1126788 | 2010-08-12 23:07:00 | What I know is that some photog friends have it and some of the well known authors in photog books. Dunno the real reason thou. I have a fully calibrated system here, Win7, well, the images still don't look the same in Windows or Firefox when compared to say Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop. Firefox needs to have colour profiles enabled in about:config; gfx.color_management.enabled and gfx.color_management.display_profile There is a small performance hit though on my comp (8 year old athlon 1.6ghz) |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1126789 | 2010-08-12 23:21:00 | Firefox needs to have colour profiles enabled in about:config; gfx.color_management.enabled and gfx.color_management.display_profile There is a small performance hit though on my comp (8 year old athlon 1.6ghz) i have the csm plugin with FF ..... www.robgalbraith.com Well with Windows itself, it's like you need to open up your image software just to preview the colors probably :lol: so much for the ICC loaded in display properties. like if you emailed a jpeg color managed file to your photo friends. ie., open file with outlook. and it's like you cannot even preview the colors properly when going onto a photography webpage. you have FF or Win and Adobe side by side - they aren't the same. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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