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(May 12, 2003 - 11:33 PM)
The last time apple 'opened' their system, they almost went bankrupt... then they ultimately closed them, so the few companies selling macs couldnt build them anymore.
Plus, as said before, you always hear about pc users having issues because, there are simply so many more of them, plus, there is so much more software and hardware for them.
Last, i work as a lab admin here at my school and in all my labs, i never have any problems with my pcs, but the macs always have some issue on my s***.
Personally, since the latest benchmarking shows that pcs are now also faster in graphics, the only reason i still somewhat support macs, is OS X.
(Nov 29, 2002 - 1:33 AM)
Please, spare me, don't make unqualified comments, did you know that there are more bug fixes for linux ever week than there are for microsoft?
Please dont judge or comment unless you know what you're talking about!
(Nov 24, 2002 - 2:20 PM)
hehe, true
Building 7B, first lab on the left, all dell high end workstation for 3d modeling.
(Nov 22, 2002 - 11:58 PM)
Ok, before I get flammed bad, please read the entire post.
I go to Rochester Insitute of Technology, one of the best schools in the US for digital imaging and printing. Almost all the labs are macs and I have extensively used macs and pcs for a very long time. I must say that in these times I honestly believe that PCs are better for imaging, an area where a mac used to be superior.
First of all macs used to use superior hardware, not really the case anymore, everything but the processor is the same.
Test wise i was building some Flash and shockwave movies and has some vector images moving to music, no big deal. I built it on my laptop ( 1.7 P4-M 512mb ram geforce 4go 64mb, 5400 rpm hd) and brought it to the mac which was a 1ghz G4 1gig ram geforce 4 ti, setting reset, on every machine the movie would lag incredibly behind when this one scene set in with several vector images moving.
Same for photo editing in photoshop 7, i can honestly say things go faster on my laptop. Now OK, the 1ghz isnt the fastest? Right. The 1.7 p4 isnt a 3ghz either.
Why does our school buy them then, they get very good deals. Maybe why the 3d rendering labs have high end dell workstations (which probably cost the same as macs).
This is just my 2 cents from EVERY day work on these machines.
(Jun 24, 2002 - 2:00 AM)
It would certianly help if they used a 64 bit operating system....