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#21

HEy Rand,

Just to share info with you.
I am using a Dell:P4, 2.4ghz, XP Home.
I’ve had it for a couple of years now. No major glitches.
Tech support is key to every platform. I’ve only had to call them once and they were helpful. I good friend of mine had a really bad experience with Dell. Dumped it. Became part of the class action lawsuit against Dell. Now he has a Gateway.
One thing I also considered was to go with a smaller company and custom build my machine. Since I was very new to the PC world I opted to go with a prebuilt Dell bundle. These are cheap and are plenty power enough to do the job, maybe not heavy duty video editing though.
Hope this helps!
-Dooki :smiley:

#22

I use both. PC and Mac. I spend most of my time on the Mac for graphic and illustration work

I purchased a G5 in December, and so far is working like a charm. I am very happy with it. Fast fast fast!

As far as Apple support, I have had nothing but good experiences the times that I have worked with them. Which is not very often, since all the Macs I have owned have been pretty solid.

Just my two cents based on my experiences since 1985.

#23

I believe that you can have 3 PC for one Mac :smiley:
Curious thing :slight_smile:
Pilou

#24

I use both the PC and Mac platforms regularily, often both in the same day and on the same project. I’ve always been a mac owner thought. I have to agree with the “comfort” I find on a mac. I find even after years of using both im a lot faster on my mac. Theres something very sterile and cold I find working on the PC. Mac’s and PC’s both have there strengths. I’ve always talked about owning both but as a student never have had the money to. Thats my two cents.

#25

If you are into hard core animation go PC. I know Final Cut Pro is a great App, but DS kicks some serious butt. I’m buying my next box from http://www.boxxtech.com. They are quite pricey though.

#26

If your not interested, or concerned in using the iLife suite, or the fantastic Apple Pro Applications get a PC.
I am a life long Mac user that has never owned a PC, but that is soon to change. If your into 3D at all you need a PC. That’s all there is to it. Anything heavy graphics card oriented is PC only. 3D, or Gaming (which is off topic) is all heavy graphics card oriented. There is no choice, but PC for these things.
I hate to say that being a that I love using a Mac for everything, but my 2D computing has grown, and evolved into 3D, and I can’t deny the PC’s overwhelming performance, and dominance in 3D, and graphics cards. It’s not a choice. It’s more of the way it’s done. 3D is all PC so buy the PC. You’ll thank yourself later. :wink:

#27

I know I’m biased towards PC’s, but I’ve never really seen a Mac live up to the “Mac’s are better for video and graphics.” The G5’s are definitely nifty and probably comes closest in performance to a PC (the dual 2ghz ones), but I’ve used Maya and Final Cut Pro on G4’s and my 2 year old PC is noticably faster than the G4’s.

I’m sure Windows lacks personality next to OSX (probably even more if I could find my way around OSX)… I don’t think that would be as much of an issue if Microsoft would let us customize the UI. :mad:

BTW, I have dual 2ghz CPU’s, 1gb ram, built the entire system 2.5 years ago for around $1500 IIRC.

As far as which to buy… I would build my own :slight_smile: I can’t really offer advice on which brand to get… My friend has a Dell and he’s tried to upgrade it once or twice and had a few issues since they don’t use standard compliant cases or parts. He tried swapping the Power supply and the new one (ATX) didn’t fit right so he had to cut part of the plastic case. He’s done a few more things to it. He has to leave the case open because if he closes it, the computer won’t boot :confused: We still havn’t figured that one out…

#28

Mac or Pc is not important, the only thing is what do you make with it :smiley:
Pilou

#29

Get what you feel comfortable with. While it’s true that Macs weren’t suited to 3d a year or 2 ago, they were much slower than PCs then, it’s not true any longer. The fastest Macs are comparable to the fastest PCs (faster at some things slower at others)The only thing that lets Macs down is poor OpenGL performance and a total lack of pro level Graphics cards. I believe Macs will gain ground in pro 3d and as they do, this weakness will be rectified - So there :smiley: - Baz

#30

Hi Rand,

Info for you:

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#31

errr, ummmmmm…

cant you run some windows applications on a MAC?
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html

For that matter cant you run Linux on a Macintosh?
http://www.macwindows.com/emulator.html#UnixOnMac

What about Mac On a windows system?

http://www.emulators.com/

Here is Windows on a Linux system without an emulator. (really cool I use it all the time, works with about ¼ of all my software and games )

http://www.winehq.com/

Here is Macintosh on LINUX with both OS at same time. No emulator.
http://www.maconlinux.org/

and here is Linux and windows at the same time.
http://www.colinux.org/

If you are getting a new system I suggest making it a ?Dual BOOT? system with either Macintosh OS or Windows XP, and also your favorite flavor of LINUX… it seems that Linux has the most reliable emulators out there in case you feel like ?jumping ship? and and running it on X (Linux).

Windows based PC systems have the most software and hardware choices. But you have to be really careful on what configuration you get, even DELL and Gateway have ?Lemons? … I highly suggest sitting down with GOOGLE and looking up reviews on every part in that system… also reviews on the entire system if you can… www.c-net.com

For people that are new to computers I usually point them towards MACINTOSH, you can purchase all the most basic software, plus allot of cool new software to keep the Novice entertained ... they are usually more reliable and compatible than a PC because they are all the same configuration.(well basically) Plus all the ?Worth while? software always seems to make its way to Macintosh. I have friends and family that use them, plus I know quite a few professionals that use them (and swear by them) also. For people who want PC systems I suggest doing lots of shopping , then lots of homework on the systems hardware.... Don't just buy brand names, check them out with GOOGLE reading reviews from different sources. Also the PC is for people who want to stay on the edge of technology... there are more software packages being developed for window$ , and more hardware technology get tested on PC systems first... more video games get published on PC....( the cool and stable ones usually end up on MAC after porting and testing.) If you want 64bit capability's there is only a really limited version of windows-64 out there, but there is very very little hardware support, and drivers for it... So if you want to run 64 bit software your only choices are Linux, and MAC-OS depending on what hardware you buy. Solaris , FreeBSD and Unix also support 64bit systems. But thats off topic...

Good Luck, and Have fun with your new system :slight_smile:

BTW( I use Window$ XP and Debian Linux.)

#32

But you can’t run run Maya Unlimited for Linux on Linux PPC. You would think alias would have at least made that possible. If I only had a REDEEMER, or maybe an ION PAINTER alias would be in for it. :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

#33

Interesting stuff Polaris! The Mac on Linux link is great thanks! It’s worth pointing out that those systems using emulators will be SLOOOOW! You’ll pretty much be throwing half your processing powetr away! I certainly wouldn’t consider doing any 3d using emulation. The ones that run without emulation sound cool though, I wonder how stable and easy to use they are? - Baz

#34

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> The ones that run without emulation sound cool though, I wonder how stable and easy to use they are? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I only know about WINE, it is really unstable but it dose work on lots of applications.

Thanks for pointing out the thing with emulators…

Emulators are there more for the “WOW, cool dude look at what I did”… for practical applications DON’T USE AN EMULATOR. more for fun than anything.

one last thing I noticed while re-reading my post, I don’t mean to say that by having Linux on your system will replace MAC or windows… it wont… if people want to try Linux I suggest using a Dual boot from Windows XP, or newest MAC-OS…(or insted of partitioning your hard disk… try running linux safely from a LiveCD, and not touching your hard disk)

Linux is allot of fun to learn, and there are allot of cool things to play with and see…and great applications to try out… but in the end people should use a “mainstream” operating system for compatibility with their favorite applications… and Linux for experimenting and education.

#35

The MAC OS X is based on a Unix kernel and has therefore much in common with Linux. Most Linux/Unix programs have been ported to Mac OS X using the fink tools.

The Fink Project

With Apples X window system even GUIs such as KDE are being ported.

I run a few of those program without problems on my Mac.

Cheers