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Posted by: Musashi 360 2
Posted by: PufTheMgicDingo
Lol, so much PC fanboyism it hurts. Ask any professor about what their opinion on graphics design on PCs. Macs have a superior UI, more reliable, and I hear another big factor is Macs have superior color reproduction. And you don't have pop ups constantly trolling you about McAfee needing moar attention and crap, which is pretty annoying when you're trying to concentrate on a project.
Lol, true! This guys just cant accept facts...
Fact: Photoshop CS5 Runs faster in Mac OS
Fact: Windows does not have Aperture for video editing
Fact: Halo's best music was all made in a Mac (Halo 1's, Halo 2's... all of Halo's songs actually)
Fact: Mac Os is NOT a suitable gaming platform... although lots of Game Publishers are now releasing their games for Mac as well, EA for example.
Fact: Keynote kicks Powerpoint's ass... and.. mac also has M$ office ;)
Fact: If you are on budget, do not buy a Mac.
CS4 out-performs CS5 on some features if you are running 64bit kernel.
Aperture is photo editing and management software.
Nothing about the OS is wrong. The drivers for OpenGL are not the best. That can be explained by these articles:
On Windows, it's a fact that the DirectX graphics drivers are better maintained than the OpenGL graphics drivers. This is caused by the vicious cycle of vendor support. As game developers are driven from OpenGL to DirectX by other factors, the graphics card manufacturers (vendors) get less bug reports for their OpenGL drivers, extensions and documentation. This results in shakier OpenGL drivers, leading even more game developers to switch from OpenGL to DirectX. The cycle repeats.
Similarly, it's a fact that more gaming graphics programmers know how to use DirectX than OpenGL, so it's cheaper (less training required) to make a game using DirectX than OpenGL. This is the result of another vicious cycle: as more game projects use DirectX, more programmers have to learn how to use it. As more programmers learn to use it, it becomes cheaper for game projects to use DirectX than to use OpenGL.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-and -not-DirectX
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/08/OpenGL-update
http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/DirectX-vs-OpenGL-revisited
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The UI you talk about as "superior" is because it based around a document that gives developers a very good explanation of how the visual appearance of something effects how we create the usage metaphor for it as well.
Colour reproduction is only as good as your monitor is calibrated. After spending the last week making a library for converting between different image compression formats I know a thing or two about how color in images is derived and I would appreciate an explanation as to how one set of code could possibly create a completely different set of colour values than another for parsing for the same data. The only way I can see this happening is if someone screwed up the parsing code by a lot. I would like to think that does not happen on a commercial software product on such a large scale as an OS.
anti-virus is a null point. it is a fact that your average windows box is less secure than your average unix box. Now before someone decides to jump down my throat about this, I need you all to consider what "average" means. This means to add up the total savvyness of every person that has a windows computer in their homes and then divides that by the total number of people. This WILL put the level of know-how down very far from the level of people that frequent this board because lets face it, you all are not grandma. Second thing is that the person that will have a unix box in their house is going to be pretty savvy about what they do for security. You don't buy little timmy a unix box for his 5th birthday now do you. you don't expect him to type up his 6th grade homework in emacs/vi now do you. You cannot accurately compare two systems with different environments of security focus.
furthermore, since I don't believe that anti-virus does anything effective, you are only as safe from viruses as you want to let yourself be. I know a number of people that don't use anti-virus on windows and they are just fine because they don't do stupid things. Same applies with OSX, sure 99% might not ever get a virus, does not mean it is any less likely if they do stupid things.
PS, I wrote malicious code for OSX for a few years. Yes it can be done, yes it is hard to do effectively, yes I do know what I am talking about on this subject.
hi, I am dirk, I have been using OSX for the past 11 years, and I have been using Mac OS for 9 before that. Some people work best on windows, other work best on linux, others work best on OSX. It is ultimately about what environment you best perform in to product the best product you can, not about ego or self-image.