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D-Dub,Feb 10 2009, 09: Wrote:The reason they are an industry standard is because when you work on a 2,000 hour project the software on the mac may freeze once where as the software on a PC will freeze 30 with at least 2 catastrophic losses......I run almost nothing in the background on my mac which reduces the risk of a crash or a massive slow down , where as for the pc I cant say that.


Macs are machines built for the arts and media type person in the world, PCs are for the technical/business person.....

Anthony the reason I bring up the hard drive is because in my class (about 50 something students) we have 10 users that have the black book, all ten have had the HD go on them.

What are the specs of the mac you just bought?
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It actually goes a little further back than that too.

Once upon a time, it actually came down to PC's, The Mac, and The Amiga.

The Mac, upon it's introduction was lambasted for it's monochrome screen and lack of memory for something using a GUI.... but cosidering that PC's did nothing of the sort at that time, it was the closest tool that people in the media industry had for simplifying their work.

And even as PC's began outpacing Macs in horsepower, there weren't any software programs out that made non-nerd's work easier. The first properly powerful video editing suite for the PC had no GUI, you had to program the whole bloody thing in REX -- a far cry from the video toaster.

Anyways... PC's were shooting for the generic market, Mac shot and found their niche. You couldn't find Photoshop and Quark Xpress fo the PC, and by the time they became available, it was too late. Mac is now so far entrenched in media that it'd take a major blunder to ruin it.

That being said.. why not go mac? It's PC-compatible now and the OS is better than windows in many regards.

It's nice to have a choice... and for the average consumer, the Mac is nearly a better alternative to learning a PC.