AAM: Mac vs PC, The Big Argument
“It just works”, “it always crashes” and “it doesn’t have any good software for it” or “it’s way over-priced and rubbish” - arguments a Mac lover would say in defence of their beautiful white boxes and arguments a Windows lover would say in retaliation. It’s the argument that we all love to hate and one that will continue for years to come. Most of the time it’s childish banter, but in cases below it appears that one Mac admirer is trying to convince his company to switch to the Mac platform.
Where do the readers of Apple Matters come into this? Well folks, Cmoore needs some well-grounded arguments in order to persuade his company that going to the Mac platform would be a better idea. User WAWA has done his best to get things going but maybe others out there could help? Try to keep an open mind and consider whether switching over to Macs really is necessary before posting your comments.
Question of the Week
Question by: Cmoore
I have been a creative director for 9 months at a new company. Coming into the position I realized that the department that I was to be put in charge of was PC based. This is the first time in my 10+ years as a designer that I had to make the conversion to PC design. At first I had an open mind and thought “OK, I can do this. A computer is a computer. Shortcuts are different and I had to retrain my hands to the PC but how difficult could it be.
Needless to say I MISS MY MAC! I have been dropping hints to the IT department about switching over to mac but of course there approach is “Why spend the money” and “ It would be too expensive because we would have to rebuy all of the software”. This is going to be an uphill battle. I have started to notice the PC crashing often especially when working with large Hi-resolution files. Not to mention that when we send anything out to press type has to be rasterized or converted to paths so the printer can go to press with the file.
My PC is new so I am not really concerned with this but my designers have older machines that we might need to replace this year and I would like to try to make the argument that we need to switch to Macintosh.
Question:
Can anyone provide me with more ammunition for my argument?
Answer by: WAWA
The arguments must evolve round:
1° it’s cheaper to buy macs.
2° We’ll make more money with Macs.
Anyone on this site can contribute from his point of view.
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I do know the company I work for wastes so much time and money using, or trying to use, Microsoft software that is to the inexperienced, unresourceful user, largely impenetrable in its design. To the extent that my collegaues regularly proclaim Excel’s autonomous malicious intent. As a highly seasoned windows user one of the reasons i prefer macs is that they are better in terms of this, which comes down to User Interface design - not perfect by any means, but doubtless better.
I am jointly responsible for a windows server at the office. I have never used OS X server, but although I am reasonably well versed in windows server, I still often marvel at how poorly planned the systems are that control the most important settings. I have no doubt whatever that OS X server would ease my life inordinately.
To me the bottom line is that using windows and other microsoft programs, I often feel like bashing my head against something to the relieve the pain. Using macs, I feel like this only occasionally.
Do your designers care what platform you use? I’m personally platform-agnostic. I work in Flash, Photoshop, After Effects, and FCP most of the time. For the Adobe products, my Intel iMac is barely usable. I reboot into Vista to do most of my work. For FCP, I use OS X of course, and when the Universal versions of the other products come out, I’ll primarily use OS X.
But if your designers are like me and don’t care, and since the platform is largely irrelevant these days in terms of software, why make such a fuss? You knew what they were using when you started and can probably rather seamlessly use your Mac in a PC environment.
The bottom line is that a) it will be expensive to switch and b) they will have to buy all new software. That’s a big upfront outlay for what I can see as marginal benefit.
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