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[Latro]

Check out some of these tutorials for their professional level video editing software.

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/tutorials/#tab=fcserver

Adobe products will be the same as on the PC, but scripting in OS X is a lot easier.


Oh and the iLife video editing software for starters.

http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie-making-25

[b@!!ofH8]

I am currently debating between a Mac Book Pro and a similar performing computer for the half the price.  If this job prospect works out I am going to have them buy a high end laptop for me so that I can work from both home and the office. 

But I need to find some place where I can try out the Mac before deciding.  Unfortunately Montana does not have an Apple store so that is going to be hard to do. 

Jed - I loved my MBP.  I passed it down while I wait for the new MBP revision (hope it's in Oct).  It was an awesome Windows notebook, and after I got VMWare Fusion set up right I could run Windows apps right from the Mac dock - pretty much the best of all worlds.  Don't underestimate Fusion as a Virtual Machine platform - you can run damn near anything in Mac OS using it.  It even supports DirectX and so therefore you could game with it - but I never even bothered.  Wait for the MBP revision and buy it - you'll never regret it.

[Labyrinthine]

I worked on Macs for 1.5 years in the Multi lab at my highschool and then used a PC at home, so I got a pretty good side by side comparison. Granted, it's been a while, so I've forgotten most of it.

The #1 I love about the Mac OS for design was the fact that the GUI was amazingly dynamic. You could have only certain parts of adobe software on screen at once, minimizing all the others. This was my #1 favorite thing. For once, I could see the rest of my computer, what I was working on, a tutorial, and then toolbars all at the same time. Drag and drop worked beautifully. Brushes, hotkeys, actions, whatever - you name it - all worked beautifully. More or less, everything just worked.

Then again, if something didn't work - gg. You'd more or less have to bastardize something to fix it. I grew to hate the mac command line as much as the windows one.

As I said, there's not too much of a difference between macs and pcs w/ multi. The main difference is the macs felt more polished, things worked, and the whole design community was addicted to them; they didn't understand jack when I started rambling about windows or linux.

[Latro]

The mac command line... is essentially the same as linux.

I think laby just hates the command line.

[Mongoose]

The #1 I love about the Mac OS for design was the fact that the GUI was amazingly dynamic. You could have only certain parts of adobe software on screen at once, minimizing all the others. This was my #1 favorite thing. For once, I could see the rest of my computer, what I was working on, a tutorial, and then toolbars all at the same time. Drag and drop worked beautifully. Brushes, hotkeys, actions, whatever - you name it - all worked beautifully. More or less, everything just worked.

Get more screen real estate, dont MM guys usually have a half dozen monitors?

The mac command line... is essentially the same as linux.

Mac OSX is just another *nix distro; they don't open it up cause then they would lose their hardware profits.

[Labyrinthine]

Keyword: essentially.

I was a bit harsh. I didn't mind it as much as the windows command line. I mean, I found the hidden text based game in it and beat it. It's just not linux. Then again, I'm a Ubuntu fan. That should say enough in and of itself.

And no, I don't hate the command line. I've actually only run linux with a head once.

[Latro]

Mac OSX is just another *nix distro; they don't open it up cause then they would lose their hardware profits.

Their GUI Is also their own... Which is much much better than anything gnome or KDE has to offer.

I always think its funny when sites like lifehacker and gizmodo run articles about how to "Pimp" your linux desktop... and then all the instructions are how to make it look like Aqua.

[mikehale]

And yes, technically you could build equal or better applications on the PC.  No one has done it yet, and all of Microsoft's attempts have been half ass'd.

adobe did.

[Labyrinthine]

Wow...

[Mongoose]

I haven't used macs much but I didn't really like their gui when I did.  However I like ubuntu's gui very much.  And the learning curve from the xp gui to the ubuntu gui for a noob level user is quite low.

[Jedakiah]

I have definitely noticed a plethora of ways in which Windows slows down web design.  And I would be interested to see if OSx can fix these problems.  However I doubt I could do that at Best Buy.  Especially without CS3 installed. 

I do not yet understand Laby's favorite thing.  Because Adobe for Windows also has docks and panels.  But maybe I will get it when I try out OSx. 

[Labyrinthine]

Yes, it has docks and panels, but I still have this barrier between my desktop and the program. It's the gray background. It's annoying, and I would rather photoshop on windows be similar to that on the mac. A series of docks and panels which can operate on the desktop without restricting me to the confines of the program.

Here. Photos should speak much louder than words.



No grey background, I can see the desktop, I can work much easier with the rest of my computer, web browser, other files, etc.



Windows. I have that god awful grey background seperating me from what I really want to be doing.

Now, if there's someway to turn that off and I have been living in stupidity for the past few years, then please, please tell me.

[Jedakiah]

You sort of can, but you'll lose some useful functionality.