The Designer? or The Platform?

[TheNoone]

There have been many arguments over the years! MAC OR PC?. Your a great designer, you love your job, and you make alot of money! Should it matter what you use? Or will a mac just make your life easier? Surely if your good, it shouldnt matter what you use! Just wanted to know everyones thoughts on this!

[sarah_a]

when I was studying for the first two years I used both mac and pc. I really dont think it make any
different to your designs however I do now only use mac because I think the colour is a lot better
on the mac than the pc but that might just be me....

I guess the good think is I can now use both a PC and Mac when it comes it illustrator etc
i mean the short cuts and stuff are a little different but yer I am not sure is there is much
difference.

I do love my Mac tho lol

Sarah

[TheNoone]

Good answer Sarah!
I honestly was expecting some Mac fiend to say, Like OMG you have to have a Mac!
Pc's just dont compare.
But as it goes
My Filthy rich boss, which has nothing to do with graphic design has just donated me a brand
new Imac for University! His excuse was "ITS TOO ANNOYING TO FIGURE OUT"
I think if i just shelled out over £1000 for a piece of equiptment like that i would be a bit patient and
work on it, Then again that is how the other half live!
So im on my way to pick it up , so happy days!
and knowing me i will turn into a mac fiend!

Cheers

[am:pm graphics]

Much prefer PC's:icon_thumbup:

Trained on Macs but wouldn't go back...I don't get what all the fuss is about to be honest, although they can look lovely

Pauline

[Pixels Ink]

PC based myself and get on fine. If I had money to burn I'd get an iMac but it would be purely for how nice it looks, it wouldn't make me any better or worse as a designer. It is purely a tool, and a bad designer always blames their tools

[TheNoone]

Good Reply. Every graphic i have rendered so far, has been off a 15.4" Sony Vaio.
So i have kind of answered my own question!

[Neily]

I hate PCs!!

[LovesPrint]

SIGH.

that is all

No there is no need for a debate, they are just as good as one another these days, it's personal preference. I work on a mac.

[chris_17]

SIGH.

that is all

No there is no need for a debate, they are just as good as one another these days, it's personal preference. I work on a mac.

Exactly. I work on PC.

[JohnRoss]

There have been many arguments over the years! MAC OR PC?. Your a great designer, you love your job, and you make alot of money! Should it matter what you use? Or will a mac just make your life easier? Surely if your good, it shouldnt matter what you use! Just wanted to know everyones thoughts on this!

It isn't very long ago that it was practically obligatory to use a Mac, in the sense that no-one would give you work otherwise. There are good reasons for this, mostly to do with fonts, and they are still valid, e.g., PC fonts are far more liable to 'dance' when a file is moved from one machine to another than with Mac. Of course, you aren't often expected to deliver print-ready Quark files any more, pdf has changed that. Even so, lots of people in the business are prejudiced against PCs, often with good reason, because they have had unpleasant experiences with them or freelancers using them. If your supplier delivers on Wednesday convinced that the job is perfect and you have to give it to the client on Friday and find that it isn't, it makes your Thursday a really bad day.

Personally, I'm not biased. My wife and I have one of each (plus a little Asus eee running Linux just to run the gamut of OSs). She has the Mac most of the time for the editorial design stuff, I get the PC for everything else. I really enjoy working with the Mac when I get the chance, because it is easier to see what you are doing (it even sounds better), but the PC is much easier to get your hands on the innards and muck about with them, which puts me in touch with my inner hacker. If I had to replace them both with a single Mac or PC I would find it a really difficult choice, but for professionalism's sake (and that of keeping up a professional image), I think I would plump for a Mac. They aren't even that much more expensive than PCs, these days, and if there were as much software available and easy to find for the Mac as for the PC, it would be no contest.