mac or pc?
3:00am @soville. Why do I always worry so much whenever I m thinking getting a Mac? Was it because of the price? No, it should be a nice investment. Was it because it’s Mac? Not really, I’ve used Mac for quite a while already. It may be true that it’s too extravagant (wc?) to change my notebook within an year and half. But I think the biggest problems is I m not sure I m ready to commit to the media business. Mac is known for better graphic and sound, editing images and videos. And buying a Mac means commitment to me. I don’t really care about the ads about how Mac is the new idea of life and those BS. But I care about Photoshop and FinalCut, and other applications relate to it. Buying a Mac means I m ready to spend more time doing media work.
On the argument of Mac against PC, it was funny to see myself slowly switching from one side to the other over the past few years. Growing up with PC, starting from MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, me, 2000, and finally XP, I must say there’s a lot of sentiments involved in it. Still remember typing “cd windows/win” to start windows; getting my ICQ url with 7 digits only (8282040); my first email account with hotmail (still using it!); practicing typing Chinese, editing king’s yearbook… Anyway, basically I learned about the computer world thru PC. As well as the pirated free software world.
But then my boss Paul has changed me. He has been using Mac for his profession. Over the past 4 years we have exchanged so many opinions about each other’s computer world. It was honestly quite frustrating when I first extensively used Mac in my Intro to Video Production class. It was FinalCut, a software that I want to be fluent in, and is also only available on Mac. I slowly learn about the supreme performance of Mac working with media. Even I was still lean towards PC at that time, I had to admit Mac’s rock solid stability. I remembered at one time, I opened Photoshop, FinalCut, QuickTime player, Soundtrack and Livetype, each is doing its own rendering while I was surfing the net. Nothing crash. Amazing.
But I was still in favor of PC for its cheap and customizable price. I still enjoyed the fun assembling my first AMD PC, buying only necessary and affordable components only. A Mac was over US$3000 at that time and I always asserted that if Mac cut down their price in half I will definitely get it. Well, guess what, they finally did it, starting with MacMini. I have no more complaint. I will buy one soon. I will like it.