woah first comment havent even looked at it yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pcs forever man

At the moment a PC user, but looking forward to change

This week just keeps getting better and better!

user of pc and will be.

I use both, but always stick to my mac for any creative projects.

There really can’t be much difference now, especially when your in an app. Its all down to price and if you can stand having some hids dell on your desk…

Mac forever!!

to each his own, but i prefer macs.
i don’t wanna start a war, so i’ll just say it does what i want it to do and it does it in style.

Boo.
I prefer windows boxes.

I prefer the Windows OS because of the unlimited customization options (granted, you have to fiddle with some Windows files), the way wider variety of applications and most importantly:
I prefer being able to build my own rig (which also is way way way way way cheaper than buying a Mac). Nothing beats finishing your own computer!

I’m using a Mac because they’re faster and more reliable! I don’t use PC’s anymore because I always used to get viruses and malware. Also, programs like Photoshop and Illustrator (as well as AE) run slower on PC’s than they do on Mac. Everything on a Mac has been streamlined to work perfectly. This is why I have a Mac!

I use both but really do prefer working with Mac OS X.

It just works.

Mac daddy all the way

I’m a PC user, but maybe a free 20″ iMac can cure that

mac > pc

I use a Mac at home and a PC work… So I guess I’m somewhere in between…

I use a mac, done so all my life. I also own a PC, but I think mac is easier to work with since I think the interface is way more user friendly then the PC one, and mac is also more stable, I’m 15 now, have a mac all my life long and I’ve never had a virus. It’s also more stable for webservers since it’s unix based.

There are hunderds of other reasons, but I don’t have time to write that all down now.

I recently bought a mac and I love using it! I had mayor issues with my pc: blue screens, random crashes, computer not wanting to start up etc.

Now that I have a mac, my work flow’s speed has heavily increased!

I have a now three years old MacBook(1,83 GHz CoreDuo) running MAC OS X 10.4. And yes I run After Effects CS4 on this machine and it’s horrible if you try to render something.
BUT I love my Mac. My Mac opened me the world to all the creative stuff music, video, graphic design. Furthermore I am DJ and so I have to have a computer which I can trust. And I trust my Mac much more and any Windows machine(bad experiences).

PC for business, Mac for pleasure.

I love my Mac

mac, because it just looks better

Mac all the way. I switched a year ago and haven’t looked back. I compare it to switching from the pony express to a satellite phone. Everything works smoother and more reliably.

Oh but on a side note the results of this survey might be off because I think less PC users than there actually are will click on the article named Mac Lovers Week. I might be wrong, but just thought I’d throw it out there.

i get so sad when the issue of creativity gets mangled with the pc vs. mac discussion.

NO! you are not more creative on a mac. As mentioned earlier in this thread, the application decides – your brain even more so.

YES! Macs look better

I might get crucified for this…but…pc offer more processing power pr. dollar. when you argue that a mac is faster you have to define what you are comparing with. a pc with roughly same specs at half the cost! in a production workflow for a small business this actually does matter. at this point in time i would argue that a properly tuned pc is the better choice for small media production facilities.
and dont surf the dark side of the net on your production machine!

Mac, and I will never look back.

I use a PC. Prices, upgradability, and compatibility.

I’d still like to HAVE a mac, I just can’t afford one.

PC. Adobe was designed on it right?

Mac.

I prefer Mac OS X over Windows, plain and simple.

Mac. I’m a designer, so like my OS to reflect thoughtful design and UX.

Well, to beat a dead horse, a Mac is a PC (Personal Computer). In the old days we called “PC’s” Wintel machines. Anyways, while pretty much everything Adobe is about the same on both, the Mac OS is incredibly better. It’s ridonculous how much better. To put a number on it, I would have to say 143% better. Maybe more.

PCs suck – in a major, major way. Once you go mac, you don’t go back…

I am, and always was a PC user. I always thought PC was just built better. Easier to use and get around in. Its more common and more programs and software are built for a PC. I just upgraded a few months ago to a DELL XPS 630i with a Core2 Quad Processor with 8GB RAM and 2TB of memory, running on Windows Vista. Which is an amazing ride, especially working with these VFX software like AE. Then when it came to Macs I would think, small, laptop, office, etc. Nothing for BIG editing and lots of memory. But if for some reason I were to purchase a Mac or win won, I would use it as a secondary computer. Do some editing on it, like audio or, depnding on what it can do, 3d modeling. (Which gets in the way on my computer)

Mac user, and will always be. I don’t think a Mac is more expensive, giving that you’ll probably invest in tech maintenance alot with a PC, and additional software like Anti-virus and such(what i used to do when I started out on a PC). And PC’s are outdated really really fast. Windows keeps on being more power hungry and always needs more space. Snow Leopard is actually getting reduced in size. I still use my G4 which runs leopard really good. It’s 8 years old. Try doing that with a PC and windoze vista or 7.

So bottom line, Macs are a great deal, easy to use, hardly no tech maintenance and look really cool.

Ive been a Windows guy the most of my life, but at work we use Mac’s only (Final Cut Pro), so I switched to that and i have to say that its just amazing. The new Mac Pro is a pleasure to work with. Two QuadCore and 6GB of Ram.. Rawwrr

As one said earlier up this thread; “Once you go mac, you never go back”!

Macs all the way! The OS is wayyy wayyy wayyy more user friendly than Windows and will always be. I’m using macs since 2004 and never had problem finding any apps that I needed. Never had a virus too!

PC, simply because its more cost effective. I haven’t had enough problems with Windows to make the extra cost of a Mac worth it.

Someday when I have extra money to throw around I’ll get a Mac and see what all the excitement is about.

I am indifferent. I see both of them as having pros and cons and they are two great os alone.

MAC > pc

turned to mac 2 years ago and never turning back

Mac, because of the video editing suite. I love my pcs, but I love my macs way more.

I have used, mac os, xp and 7 in the past. I am totally happy with windows 7 (which I regularly use now), and have no plans to do the big switch especailly with all the cool additions and usability features of 7.

People are suckered into the marketing of Windows vs. Mac and make ridiculous arguments for the OS of his/her choice. Be objective and look at whole picture.

Thanks for asking Aetuts+. I appreciate it.

I’ve been using Windows for a really, really long time. However, I just recently bought a new macbook pro. It’s probably the best computer I’ve ever owned, but I’ll still continue to use Windows machines as well.

It is retardedly easy to use a mac though and at the same time very powerful which is why they are fun to use.

I have a PC desktop, PC laptop, and a Mac laptop. When I’m at home, I’ll probably use my desktop, but if I’m not I’ll definitely have my mac with me instead of my PC laptop.

In the end, if you can somehow pick up a mac, do it. They’re fun

if I was a little richer I would be mac. haha

Till then, I stick with my PC, get the same amount of power for a couple grand less.

News Flash – there is no difference. It’s all the same hardware. Mac zealots for years bragged about their superior operating system. Then Jobs came back and completely dumped it for OS X. The Mac zealots immediately bowed down in awe although it was a POS for the first few iterations. At that time all that separated the Mac fantasy users superiority complex was the microprocessor. The painfully slow Motorola Power PC reduced instruction set – easy melt model. Guess what? Macs use Intel chips now just like windows boxes. There is nothing wrong with a Mac accept the pretentious snobbery of the Mac fundamentalist and the ridiculous price tag. And who says they look better. How about that clam shell laptop, the cube? the iMac that looks like the lamp from the Pixar opening, the original iMac Yuck. Looking at my old Macs is like looking at bad fashions from the seventies. You just can’t believe people were wearing those striped bell bottoms and platform shoes.

I doesn’t matter to me what I work on as long as it’s got enough memory a powerful chip a good graphics card and fast hard drives.

Bootcamp!!! Love the Style and for the most part stability of Mac OS, Love the compatibility of Windows with most any hardware and software.

Love my Mac Pro for work, Love my windows PC for fun.

Three biggest downsides of Mac:
Ever try Gaming on a Mac….hah
Ever try finding printer drivers on a Mac… rough
Ever try uninstalling big programs on a Mac… good luck on your hunt

Other than that… Love Mac OS… Bring on Snow Leopard
and… I will be using Windows 7 as well.

Mac convert of 2 1/2 years. Have a MacBook Pro at home, a Mac Pro and Win PC laptop at my desk at work, and a iMac in our editing room (Corporate structure requires me to have the Win PC).

I first learned to do design on a Win PC, so I can’t knock it, but I prefer designing/editing on a Mac far more than on Win PC.

Was an avid Pc user up until about a month ago when i bought a 24inch 2.93ghz imac. Best decision of my life. ever.

I’ve dual booted it to windows 7 however so i can play games

…

although i could do with a 20inch imac to go next to my 24inch imac…

I use Mac. It makes me feel better, as well as more creative. I don’t want to say that the tool makes the work, but I just feel better with It.

I have a macbook that I bought 2 years ago, was my first switch to Mac from PC. I still build high end gaming desktop PC’s though I prefer the Mac OS with it’s intuitive UI.

I will continue to be a mix user – get the best of both worlds

“Once you go Mac, you never go back”

mac.
had a pc, still have it, no chance for me to give vista a try! xp was nice but limited, so i needed something alse to GAIN MY POWERS !!!
i am so happy with the mac (8core16gb3tb).

so –> Mac(pro)

I use both, and they both have advantages and disadvantages.

I’m not going to get involved in the slight fanboy’ism in some of these comments.

Besides that, I own a macbook with both windows and Mac Os X on it, and I have to say I’ve loaded into windows a few more times than Mac Os X, for the simple reason that I use Windows Live Messenger for a lot of my communication and the version on Mac OS doesn’t cut it. I also use a lot of business apps such as Remote Assistance and a few more that aren’t available on the Mac Os. But apart from this my creative side really does come out when I combine the two. Especially in music production, with FL Studio being my creative brainstorm and Logic Pro being my main workhorse for everything else.

mac all the way

I use a Mac on my MacBook Pro as I find it portable and robust for my work, and it hasn’t crashed for me.

btw
select a smaler (then the screen) layer
cmd+alt+f (fits it to the screen )

I have always been a mac person but honestly once you start doing processor intensive graphics you get 3 times more for your money using a pc. That’s just a fact.

I use windows because that is always what I have used. Soon I will have a Mac because of school but I sitll plan on having windows on it for CS3 if I need it.

Mac user here, working with video editing and motion graphics.
You can do the same things with both systems, and a high end PC can be faster than a high end Mac, but in my experience Macs are more stable, reliable, user friendly, intuitive, and, as far as I know, they don´t get viruses.

Mac!

John Doe: sad but true.

I love to build my systems on my own and hand pick my hardware, so I’d have to say I am a PC guy for now.

PC or Mac don’t matter, it’s the final product you create that does. Clients don’t give a rats ass what you used in the process.

For some its PC’s n for some its MAC all the way. Well to me it all comes down to having an option, have heard of MAC a lot dt it works fast n efficient n saves a lot of time, A proud user of PC but doesn’t close ma eyes to a Perfect Machine, as ma PC does consumes large time. Just waiting for ma options to open…….

Until then m in love with ma PC for wt it does for me

http://aftereffectsunlimited.blogspot.com/

Mac user here!

I’ve been a mac user for 5 years and it’s a great product. Of course, it has it’s flaws, but it’s great for me.

Mac.

The only reasons I can think that someone would not use a Mac is the following:

1. They play PC Games a lot.
2. They can’t afford a Mac.
3. They already have an extensive library of PC software (lots of money’s worth)
4. Have an IT team hired to solve their problems.

I’ve been using a Mac for the better part of 10 years or so (I’m only 17) and I’ve also used PC for nearly that time as well. I choose Mac because the hardware is great, even if it’s absurdly expensive. OSX is incredible, and so much more stable then any Window’s computer I’ve used. Not to mention the much better security thanks to UNIX. For doing graphics and stuff, Mac really is the choice to go I believe. And hey, if you need a few Window’s apps, guess what! You can easily run Windows off your system. It’s really the all inclusive package.

Mac all the way. Totally customizable. Everything drag and drop, Many, many neat underground apps and far, far, far less viruses….. not even a need to worry.
Very expensive, but the investment will last.

Mac FTW!

One thing though, its Mac Lovers Week, and there’s tutorials on FCP, would there be tutorials on Motion as well?

Hey!
why you ask this?
you’ve been knowing, most the people use pc around the world,
if you look at many websites most of them use pc because it’s the best for anything. no far there is videocopilot.net the best website, (Andrew kramer)
Great motion graphics ( FX Stuff) All in PC
you should check this out and see the difference between PC and mac…
I’ve been using PC for seven years.
So if you have mac try with PC bro… is the best.

i use pc, but i think that mac is better

Mac at work.

These juvenile platform wars never go away do they? No one’s going to change what they use due anything said here or elsewhere. Use what you like to use already. The rest of you can STFU! Option/ALT…who cares.

mac = intuitive = easy to use = more productive = better.

add in no malware/spyware and any garbage like that, and you’ve got a pretty sweet computer.

pc user; now and always.

Mac, no doubt!

once you go MAC you dont go back!

mac obviously.

Sounds like a great week ahead!
I’m a Mac user of course… because they are just so stylish, and work wonderfully!

MAC
Built for the creative professional! PCs just don’t have that creative feel in my opinion.

I use a Powermac G5 2005 PowerPC model. Don’t know how much longer until I upgrade to a newer mac. Once I need CS4 or higher, I guess I’ll have to.

The only things I miss about a PC are the games. Man I especially miss those old MS DOS based games like Zork.

Définitivement MAC !!!!
Trop d’emmerdes avec les PC ….. Cocoricooooo !!!

Definitly Mac, too much problems with PC…. But it is not a material problem at least ?

vista made me switch
now i use both.
my win machines (vista64) mainly for 3ds max, zbrush and some other non-mac apps.
(i don’t like bootcamp)
and cs4, zbrush and some musicsoft on a imac 24″ and a 15″ macbook pro.
in my opinion the mac pro machines are overprized.

MAC , 8-Core on my Desk even SMELLS GOOD!

As someone else stated, both have pros and cons. I have a Mac at work and use my PC at home so I believe I am knowledgeable of both systems.

If you have the money, and you prefer stuff to just arrive and work 100%, then Mac is the way to go.

If you are more “hardcore”, PC is often a better choice, as you are able to build your own powerhouse (you can build a PC way better than the best Mac Pro for less the price of one), but that requires a lot of time, knowledge and is less stable.

Talking about inner design, I don’t really think neither of them wins, as you can customize the windows desktop in incredibly many ways (especially on XP); this is my windows desktop for example: http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2853/desktopssh.jpg

Okay, I admit, that required fiddling with various Windows files (which the average user cannot do and is afraid of doing), but it was worth it.

On the subject on speed, yes many graphical applications are made to worker faster on a Mac, but that is nothing good Windows hardware can’t compensate.

And to end this wall of text:
“But you can only get X and Y programs on a mac!”
Yes, but you can get just as good equilevants (spelled?) on a Windows.

I am using a PC, purley because it was avaliable to me. I’m only 15, it took me long enough to save up for the student version of Adobe Production Premium.

I however, am a bit of a geek. I would prefer to have both OSX and Windows at my fingertips… possibly on th same machine. Whehn I can afford it I will buy a mac. I can live with a PC just now.

I’m a PC!
Because that’s what my school uses, and what i’m more familiar with.
Macs definitely seem cool but i cant help feel you pay extra for a brand name and social status… still, i would like to try out a Mac soon.

BUT, definitely recognise that there are PC users out there.

I use a Mac Pro and an HP workstation running Windows side by side every day at work.

They have similar specs and cost about the same (the HP was actually slightly more expensive).

Amazing how many people don’t know the differences between a consumer PC and a professional workstation. Those differences cost money, but they also provide something of value. HP’s workstations are #1 among Windows machines imho, but they’re not quite up to the overall hardware design of the Mac Pro (HP’s new Z800 workstations may have changed that, I haven’t had time to check them out yet.)

I much prefer OS X over Windows, because it is more elegant and pleasant to work with, and it doesn’t get frequently sidetracked by Windows’ endless security patches that have to be downloaded, installed and system-restarted on top of the daily virus updates. So I find myself being more productive on the Mac.

There are also Mac-only programs that are key for my work, including Final Cut Studio. Key because it is a good tool, and even if it wasn’t I’d have to use it to be able to work with other team members in an industry that is largely FCP.

SuperDuper! is another monster favorite program, I wish this was available for Windows machines.

Now, whoever wrote that Mac users are “content without a right-click…” Duh.

Right-clicks save time and have been supported on Macs for many years now.

Mac – i have only ever once owned a Pc and it always crashed and just completely died after a few months.

My opinion

I use windows linux and OSX on all my machines

why well because i like choice and the freedom to work on all platforms makes me all tingly inside

seriously though i am a creataholic i make everything from music to animation to cakes to origami well you get the idea….working on all platforms gives me the freedom to tailored my creative environment for my needs. Windows is a powerhouse and its a fall back when software the software is not available for mac. Mac is my all day everyday go to os, it is my shiny aluminum friend. Apart from the odd (fetch the men in white coats) statements it is my reliable portable workstation when performing its something that is not just a nicety its a necessity knowing that the system wont crash even if the app does or if a keyboard/midi controller gets yanked i wont have to restart my daw to get it working again. these things are priceless to me.

linux…well its free and i believe it may be the future ……. at least for certain applications (smart phones, netbooks etc)

anyway enough blabber

peace

brian

Maybe mac users crash PCs because they use them like they’re macs!

MAC ,forever.

Own and Operate PC’s Mac’s and Linux Boxes.

I use Adobe Suite on Mac.

Proud Mac user.
I used to use only PCs and saw macs as pointless – why would you spend so much more money?
However, started to work in the industry and realised I sorta needed a mac. Now, I’ll never go back to PC. I hate when I have to switch over to PCs, it just seems so primitive. Seriously, though it does seem to be much less stable, and Final Cut Pro is what I use to edit with now so I couldn’t go back to PC even if I wanted to.

Basically what I’m getting here from the Mac users is that they are too stupid to operate Windows. Macs are like the McDonalds cash register. Instead of numbers on the key pad Micky D’s discovered it was easier for their employees to remember a picture of an Egg McMuffin rather than it’s price. A lot like the iPhone. Macs are contributing to the whole dumbing down of society.

yatchacha : – ) Take that Mac users.

As has been stated by several people here…..Macs don’t run faster and their OS’s are not more user-friendly…but they do cost twice as much.

In the market for a new computer, interestingly enough, and the PC I want will cost me about $2800. A mac with comperable specs was going to cost just over $5000. Think of all the programs I can buy with that $2200+ savings.

There is a snobbery about Macs that is laughable. Been working in the video industry now for five years and have never had a hard time finding work….even doing all of it on my shabby old “pc.”

Started 5 years ago with 3D Animation Software and had to use PC because it was really hard to get it in MAC Version. Still to this day there are a lot of Software programs out there that FOCUS mainly on PC and you have to wait for a MAC copy to show up. Worked with both and still it really doesn’t matter what I use. Besides CREATIVITY comes from with in, not from your COMPUTER!!!

LINUX …… Started to use this just recently since it became much more user friendly and I just love it. Definently is going to ROCK the industry in the near future.

i am a windows user and trust me i had the money i would by a high end mac but i am only 15 you could buy a pretty sick PC for same $$$ as a low mac also i wouldn’t be able to use Sony Vegas which i am very familiar with and use with after effects so i will probably be a windows user for the forcible future :/

PC

I love my MAC

Guh, I hate scanning through every single comment just so I can see if what I plan on saying will be redundant or not.

Anyway, I use Mac, grew up with them and the only times I ever have used Windows computers are when totally unavoidable.

Now, I could make arguments about why “Mac is better”, but since that’s not what we’ve been asked, we have instead been asked to say what OS/Computer we use and for what reasons, here’s why I prefer Mac, even if I hadn’t grown up with them.

1. In the one month I actively used a PC laptop, I had to download several hundred updates to XP, most of them small security updates that were coming in every single day. My Mac computers maybe have one security update every 3 months, as for the updates, the only updates that come in are ones for the actual applications or substantial updates for the OS. So, reason 1 is that on my Mac, I don’t get pestered every single day to restart my computer because an update was downloaded, nor do updates download without notice on the default system preference.

2. Every time I connected a mouse besides the Apple Mighty Mouse, or just plug anything into one of the USB ports on my PC, let alone try to play a measly 5MB game, I have to constantly go through an install wizard because the right driver for the right kind of model of mouse or whatever isn’t on the computer. On my Mac, everything is plug and play, or drag and drop. “Installing” any application short of one of the big name companies, like Adobe or Autodesk etc. takes only 5 seconds to drag the program to my computer from the disk image.

3. The PC laptop I noted, I got in 2005. It now doesn’t last 5 minutes past a startup before overheating. As one of my 2008 textbooks mentioned, the average PC lifespan is 3 years. My G3 Cube I bought over 10 years ago only started playing up in the last year or so, in regards to being able to actually display on a connected monitor. The actual computer still works fine as a server now, not obsolete and has worked fine for almost a year while sitting in my dusty garage that would wreck a PC in one day.

4. My PC, for one thing, I had to install the OS myself, but for another, after the installation of the OS, then the antivirus software, then Office, I found that just about all of the builtin programs on the computer was either trial software or useless for anything. On my Mac, the installed software, beyond iLife, is:

A good web browser
A dictionary and spellchecker that actually works
Address Book
Organiser
Email
A good media player
Dashboard

5. Though you might have already guessed from the previous points, my PC was riddled with viruses. Because of these, I had to constantly defragment my hard drive and/or reinstall the OS, usually on a monthly basis. On my Mac, in fact, on Macs in general, viruses don’t exist. I get told that’s because no one makes viruses for Macs since they’re so unpopular, har har, but that doesn’t change the fact that you don’t get viruses on Macs.

So that’s it. Obviously I’m not going to change any PC user’s mind about things, but I felt like sharing my thoughts at least.

Regards,

≈Roy42

well .. guys please stop with these mac vs pc discussion .. the entire net is stuffed with such debates .. and well to correct you guys it should actually be mac vs windows not mac vs pc . coz pc means personal computer .. and mac is a personl computer as well .. so this means that this entire topic is just wrong
and well i use mac . windows and ubuntu .. i got all three of them .. i have a 8 core mac .. a i7 windows machine .. and a dual core ubuntu .. and i love all three of them
each one of the os has its own cons and pros .. none of them are absolutely perfect
yeah its true that macs give u a lot more out of the box .. but apple charges for that .. though osx is a beautiful os but it cannot completely replace windows .. at some point you do require a windows machine ( specially gamers )
its just pointless choosing one .. its a matter of personl choice .. why do windows users keep abusing mac users and vice versa …both of them are equally good .. infact ubuntu could be really huge if some huge company supports it and thinks of developing it further .. i mean for being free . it gives windows a serious run for money .. the only thing linux misses is 3rd party softwares … none of the major co. care to take out a linux version

PCs forever?
Nah.
Amiga forever!

j/k I use Windows/Linux dual boot on all my computers. Some day, that may change. Either when Apple officially supports generic hardware, or when Adobe supports Linux.

…or when Amiga makes an amazing comeback!

ME > PC = Excellent work