MAC's are nice, but I can't see owning a rig that to me would only be good for editing. I want something that will do both editing and net surfing with no issues. I am not a MAC fan, but I am a major fan of FCP.
Mac's aren't ONLY for editing, they're just better because it's the only platform that can run Final Cut.
They do everything else that a PC can do, only better.
Except games.
Gme developers don't usually venture into the Mac world because most Mac users are more into the artistic aspect of things.
Such as FCP, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya and Cinema4D.
A good Mac workstation equipped with a tablet and a shuttle, FCP and Photoshop, you got everything you need to churn out whatever kind of art you do.
Apple has the Safari browser, but Firefox is the best you can get IMO.
Firefox has Mac, Win, Linux versions.
A Mac can do everything a PC can, and will do most of it beter.
OSX is leaps and bounds ahead of Windows!
OSX is setup as an artists computer.
The way the OS works, the apps that are built into it, the way it handles files.
It's built for digital art.
Macs are the only computers that implement a system wide color profile system.
Called Colorsync.
The way Windows does it is that only apps that use color profiling have it enabled.
With a Mac, the color profile applies to the entire system, even files downloaded use the color profile.
So if you have an HDD full of images or video you shot yourself, you use colorsync to match the profiles, and even when you're just going through those files the color is exactly as you set it to be.
Your desktop uses the same profile, webpages use it, DVD's use it.
It gives consistent color everywhere.
As opposed to windows where the only time you can use color profiles is in an app like Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Sony Vegas, etc..
So you have to load your images or video into that app to see what the color actually looks like, you can't just open the video in quicktime or a preview utility and get accurate color.
Apple computers have always been better at handling color, and media in general.
So to say you're not a Mac fan just means you don't know that much about them.
It seems like everyone who actually gets used to using a Mac is totally won over by their stability, functionality, the quality of their built in applications, the ease of use.
With a Mac, software is easy to learn, and it just works the way you want it to work.
No f*cking around, and since Apple is picky about the hardware they choose to support, you know you're getting very good components.
And once you get to the point where you're color grading, this is an essential feature.
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