photoshop runs just about as well on a mac as on a PC and so does maya. the primary advantage of a mac for such media work was the performance advantage of IMB's PPC architecture and as it is, that's has now been eroded and made irrelevent with apples switch to the x86 architecture
I use macs at school, and they are ok for programming java. But, there is basicallt nothing you can do with a mac anymore. I can program java on windows just fine. So here are the basic cons/pros Mac: The Good: -Good Design -Basic User Friendlyness -Power House for 3D and Movie Work -Small amount of viruses The Bad: -Basically No Software AT ALL -No GOOD Games AT ALL (Sorry to the mac gamers our there, all 5 of you) -Just Sits there, does nothing, look good. -Basically Every Program that runs on a Windows rarly has a Mac Version (As upto date as it) -Expensive PC: The Good: -Very good software support -Very Good Driver Support -Cheap Cheap Cheap -TONS of GREAT GAMES -Very Good Virus Support -Basically Every Program that runs on a Mac can has a Windows Version -Updated for Security and Software Updates Before Mac -Fairly Easy to Fix The Bad: -Can look Horrid (if you have a bad pc case) -Very large number of viruses So, i beg of you, save yourself and go pc, you wont regret it.
He put lots of viruses. Other than the virus problem, though, PCs are much better for anything that the average user would want to do.
Virus Support for PC is EXTREAMLY good. With some viruses, they have FIXES out even before its released. Virus support for Mac is mediocre at best, but that is because there are no viruses for macs. Even though there are hugh security flaws in the Mac OSX, olny small amounts of people actually use Macs, and Mostly use PC. Bill Gates Stated that: Windows Products are much safer, because of the viruses and hackers. They help us identify security flaws, and fix them. Might not be the exact quote, but you get the idea P.S. X.E. Link, What steppings do you have for your 165 Opty?
i beleive i have a ccb1e, I wrote down the stepping but I lost the paper... I might have ccbbe, but I doubt it as I don't remember seeing two bs... it doesn't matter to me though, all that matters is the simple fact that I can run 2.8GHz on stock voltage(but I have to raise the HTT on my motherboard which I'm not comfortable with doing so I undervolt... I technically don't even need 2.6 so I'm happy) for the record I run 2.61GHz 1.264V 24hours prime stable(though 2.62 was only 4.5hours prime stable)
Go with the Mac. I'm a recovering Windows user, and wouldn't switch back for the world. The speed, performance, user-friendliness, lack of crashes, and lack of viruses are all things that are truly unmatched by a PC; especially running Windows. I'm convinced that Macs are literally immune to crashes-- in 3 years of using Macs, I've had 2 kernel panics (the Mac equivalent of a crash) and I caused them myself, so it wasn't really Apple's fault. Before I bought a PowerMac, my iBook's uptime was up around 4 or 5 months. I missed a few system updates, but that's an insane uptime if you think about it. Virus immunity is also a plus. There's one known virus for the Mac OS at the time of this writing and it can't even affect you without first asking for your password, so as long as you're not stupid, you should be fine. Also, the new Intel-based Macs can dual-boot Windows with BootCamp (and, from what the benchmarks say, run it better than PC's do; that's the MacBook Pro anyway). So if you need to switch over to an operating system that's virus-prone and unstable just to run a game, you can do so.
and it only costs 10-60% more per unit of performance just slap on linux for free and 100% of your excuses vaprorize...
I've never really used Linux, so I'm in no place to question its' operational integrity (it's probably great) but if Linux is all you're concerned about, you can install that on any box, meaning it'll run on the Mac too. I've heard of people triple booting Linux, OSX, and Windows on the same Mac. This is even easier with the introduction of BootCamp. From that standpoint, I'd still go ahead and go for the Mac since you've got the whole 'dual-core' thing going on in the laptops now.
yeah, a PC is cheaper, and you can do Vice versa on a pc, have Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. btw, OSX is based off Unix, which is very similar to Linux..