Dryk said:
Chrono212 said:
Apple's theology that old is bad and new is better, they say what you can and can't do.
Microsoft's been doing that too
In general consumer electronics seem to be moving from "Here are some tools, use your imagination" to "You want this thing, you want to use it this way. Why? Because we said so" and I really hate it
Thiiiiis.
Apple's vision has
always been "computer as household appliance." Microsoft has never really had any vision (besides "capitalism, ho!") so they've been playing follow-the-leader of late just because they're losing marketshare and mindshare.
I don't like that most people who object to Apple do so on a largely superficial level: Macs are overpriced, they're ostentatious, form over function, pretentious, blah blah blah. Who cares. That shit don't matter. What
does matter is that Apple's whole philosophy is incredibly hostile to the entire idea of general-purpose computing. The walled garden, the hermetically sealed cases, the App Store censorship, the curtain thrown over any hint of what's going on beneath the glitzy surfaces of their OSes--all those things are symptoms of an approach to technology that I find abhorrent.
(If you couldn't tell by my crazed polemics, I run Debian.)
Griffolion said:
The only industry where you do need to still have a Mac is the music industry. The reason being that Pro Tools, the industry standard in music production, is Mac exclusive. It's Mac exclusive because Mac OS have a decent set of native drivers for MIDI interfaces, which, for some reason, is still the industry standard interface even after like 25 years. Windows has some, but they are third party and very unstable.
One of my best friends works in the music industry, got a Windows laptop because she didn't have the budget for a Mac. I don't remember the specifics because it was a few years ago and I know nothing about music (troubleshooting via extensive googling,) but I had a
hell of a time getting her up and running so she could cut/mix tracks. At least half a dozen different drivers/patches/encoders/whatever after a few hours of researching the errors her software was throwing. But one thing I learned was that PC laptops apparently tend to have really shitty sound cards. Most of my work was finding software that would emulate hardware features (support for a certain number of channels or something) that her machine's sound card just didn't have, and a lot of people with a lot of different laptops had similar problems.
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Vault101 said:
Baneat said:
It isn't, it's a marketing gimmick from powermac days and their excellent screens which beat most other ones.
so I dont have to feel like a fool for drawing on my PC?
Nah, PC and Mac are exactly the same on that front. The reason so many graphic designers/artists/"artists" use Macs is vendor lock-in. Macs were better back in the 90's, design houses bought Macs, future designers learned on Macs. Now that the tech is the same across platforms, it's just a feedback loop: students buy Macbooks and learn on OS-X because that's what the design houses use, design houses use OS-X because that's what their employees know and what the students are learning. That plus the switching costs: if a company were to replace all their infrastructure at once, it'd cost a ton of time/money up-front for some savings down the line and zero tech benefit 'cause the tech's all the same.
So nah, you're fine.
