Thanks so much for your thoughtful comment. The Mac vs. PC debate does get a bit over the top. whenever those arguments raged I just sat back quietly and listened. I agree with what you say that both have pros and cons. I love my PC. And yes, Mac does stuff I think is outrageous sometimes. But over the years, they have been one step ahead on many innovative things and I think their software is better. But whatever…both have their advantages. In general, computers and computer editing are awesome little wonders of technology and I love them.

Thanks for such a great and thoughtful comment.
Lorraine

But at home I use both a PC and a Mac – for different reasons. I’ve always been interested in this debate of PC vs Mac. Speaking as a recording musician with considerable amounts of money invested not only my computers, but also a whole lot of outboard Effects processors which are utilised in my sound editing environment, there is similar raging arguments and possibly more in the music production environment.

Mac users tend to swear by their Pro Tools setups, PC users swear by anything but Pro Tools. I’ve witnessed both environments in professional situations, and in my mind ‘real’ engineers know the advantages of both and utilise both in actual fact without getting all hot and bothered about it. The fact is, Mac does overcharge for certain things – like rebadging Samsung monitors as Apple and charging triple the price for one thing. Same goes for so-called “Apple” hard drives. Why do I want to pay 2 to 3 times the price for HDD simply because it has an Apple icon on it??? But when it comes to home setups, Pc definitely gets my money. In this area, I do think Mac are still too much into the business of charging for the design and look of their product rather than the performance of it.

I can get more performance out of my PC-based workstation and digital audio software (Samplitude) than my friend who spent over 10,000 on his Pro Tools LE setup – and his latest upgrade requirements are completely ridiculous, the PC-based world obliterated this kind of idiocy aeons ago. This is the kind of thing that th I hate to think what problems Snow Leopard is going to give him.

I use the Mac for tracking, and the PC for actual editing and manipulation. Samplitutde is quite simply a much better program than Pro Tools LE, far more versatile, and a complete PC rig would cost about 1/3rd of the price of getting something vaguely similar from a Mac.

So for me, and my approach to Video, it’ll come down to the same thing – I learnt video production on a Mac, but it doesn’t mean I should rule out certain PC-based software for doing certain things. As i said, FCP is definitely the best to get those ideas up and running fast and professionally.

Anyway, at the end of the day, Macs that actually perform use Intel these days, and that’s about as PC as you get