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crashdown · Feb 14, 2006

Oh great !! you are just going to get Bowen started on his Mac Love speech again.....and on all days....Valentines day.

crashdown · Feb 14, 2006

You know, I just checked out some of my first posts about two and a half years ago. My forth post ever was to this vary forum. And guess what, it was as slow then as it is now. Maybe this forum is destined to remain slow.

Oh well, we will always have Larena_Jade...........or will we?

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P.S. you can find my very first post to the Oregon FF here

Larena_Jade · Feb 15, 2006

yes, you will always have me! lone girl SW fan forever!

I just need to hurry up and graduate so I can actually BE here, grrrr....

brook_33 · Feb 15, 2006

Graduating is overrated.

Use2bVader · Feb 24, 2006

Bowen said:

No offense but if you're using a PC for video editing, you clearly don't know that much about video editing.

No professionals in the industry use WinPCs, at all. Ever. They use Macs and SGI workstations exclusively. Nobody would be caught dead running Windows and using a PC to do serious video work.

For one, PCs are slow computers. You can read all you want and be a huge PC fan and all this nonsense, but if you can find a PC with 4 x 2.5 Ghz processors with each 2.5 Ghz processor running at about the speed of a 3.5 Ghz Intel processor, I'd sure like to see it. Because right now, the top of the line Mac is about 2-3 times faster than the best possible PC money can buy. PCs are the Happy Meals of computers, just like Honda Civics are the Happy Meals of cars. Trying to argue that a Honda is faster than a Ferrari is just a sure way to make yourself look stupid. Trying to argue that a PC is a better computer in any meaningful sense than a Mac is sheer nonsense. Anyone who has ever used both, and I came from a background of using PCs for more than a decade, knows that Windows does not compare to Mac OS X, any version. Windows is the worst operating system ever created. It's inefficient with its memory usage, it's slow, it crashes constantly, it doesn't provide very good user interface, it's hard to navigate and find windows (ironically) compared to Mac OS X, it has a poor search feature compared to OS X Tiger, it is inferior in absolutely every respect.

Furthermore, PCs have a max allowable RAM of 4 gigs typically, I hear there are a few models expandable to 8, but Macs have been expandable to 8 for some time now. In fact, the newest Mac, the 4x2.5 Ghz processor model I talked about, two liquid-cooled, dual core G5 processors (unlike anything ever seen in a PC) can be equipped with 8 x 2 gigs of RAM, that's 16 for you math geniuses. No PC can hold that much RAM. And as anyone knows, RAM is like gold when doing photo editing, graphic design, or video processing. The faster the processor speed and the more RAM, the faster your work goes. Macs are far faster and more powerful for these purposes. They are the Ferraris of personal computing. You need look no further than inside of the two computers to see the difference. Look in your PC and you will see a mess of wires, cords built far too long, parts built by numerous manufacturers, sometimes completely incompatible. But look inside a Mac and there are no loose wires, anywhere, everything is designed aesthetically as well as structurally, so that looking into a G5 is like looking into the engine of a Ferrari. It was frankly a shock to me when I switched from PCs to Mac just how nice everything looked. PCs rarely ever innovate in anything, either. You know who came up with the USB port? It wasn't PCs Yes, it was Apple that used USB ports in computers first, and now they are standard.

My computer runs dual 2.5 Ghz processors with 8 gigs of RAM, and I use Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Garage Band, etc. for video editing. Macs were also the first platform to use Avid, which is run by 95% of video professionals in feature film work. The other 5% is almost exclusively Final Cut Pro. Nobody uses Adobe Premiere, it's a terrible program. I tried using it on PC and it is not only non-intuitive but it lacks power. It's a far cry from Photoshop, unfortunately. And even worse, most amateurs don't use Premiere, either. Most amateur filmmakers use Final Cut. It's quite a powerful program, too, and some prefer it to Avid, but for whatever reason Avid is the industry standard. Even so, people don't run Avid on WinPCs, anyway, they run them on Linux machines.

Now if all you do is sit around and play video games, I rest my case, PCs really are better at that. Because PCs are made for gamers and for cheap businesses. It's far easier to make a PC as they are lesser computers in every respect, so of course a business with employees using mainly Excel, Word, and e-mail applications are going to have PCs. It's far cheaper to mass order Dells or IBMs or whatev
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crashdown · Feb 25, 2006

Use2bVader said:

Your Focus determines your reality......

One of my favorite commercial spoofs is "Crash Differently" and it was written my a MAC user. He (Hunter Thomas) said that everything in that video actually happened to him. And yet he still loves MACs Google the video see if it doesn't make you laugh.
But the tag line is priceless
"MAC Killed my inner child..."
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I was not able to find it on Google. Is there a link you could provide.

By the way, did you hear that Macs were just attached by two viruses the other day?

grumpydevil · Feb 25, 2006

Here's that:
http://www.n8itude.com/evolution/index.php?itemid=95

It's pretty funny. I saw it a while ago.

-Kyle

crashdown · Feb 27, 2006

grumpydevil said:

Here's that:
http://www.n8itude.com/evolution/index.php?itemid=95

It's pretty funny. I saw it a while ago.

-Kyle
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Ya, it's pretty funny. Is what it says about Macs true. I've never really used a Mac much, so I don't know.

_Vengeance_ · Feb 27, 2006

Heh, I remember seeing that a while ago. Pretty funny.

Except for the fact that almost none of it is true, unless of course you jump blindly into the Mac scene and try to work with it the same way you work with a Windows based machine. That's like a professional baseball player going to a bowling alley and trying to smack the bowling ball down the lane with a baseball bat. He's probably going to break his bat, hurt his arm, and the ball probably won't even get into the lane.

I've had more of the things the fellow in the commercial describes happen on my Windows run machine while trying to work with it normally than I have on my Macintosh under very CPU intensive situations, and I'm more than competent on both platforms.

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