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I’m an intern for a multimedia company and I usually work on a windows laptop. Well today one of the main production guys was out of the office and I was working on a rather large PSD file. So I sat down on his computer to work on it… amazing.

I didn’t know Windows made laptops? 😊 Define “rather large.” 100M+? I’ve yet to have problems working with what I consider “rather large” PSDs on my Dell laptop.

I still wish I’d gone with a Mac, though 😊

I think what spoof is seeing here is the 64-bit support that comes with newer intel macs.  And heck yes, it’s amazing.

/me hugs his macs and brand spankin new iphone

Well the laptop (XP) I’m on has a p4 with 512mb of ram. So running Outlook 2003, photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 and a browser or two and then trying to open a 50mb+ psd gets a little slow… lol

Besides, playing with a Dual Xeon G5 is just so much fun!  F1 so awesome 😛

So, you’re comparing a pinto to a lamborghini - hardware wise.

Fail! :p

So, you’re comparing a pinto to a lamborghini - hardware wise.

Precisely what I was getting at.

Besides, playing with a Dual Xeon G5 is just so much fun!

Hehe.

So, you’re comparing a pinto to a lamborghini - hardware wise.

Precisely what I was getting at.

Not really, the speed wasn’t the amazing part, even though it was faster than the laptop I was on. The nice part was just the interface and short cuts that the Leopard OS uses. The ability to simply tile all the windows for easy selection to what you want was a plus. Along with the the positioing of the show desktop feature. One thing that was nice for web design on an apple was the ability to take a selective screen shot instead of an entire screen.

I find the columbed navigation in finder to be a time save too. It gives you the ability to easly navitate through a file system. Windows has a simular feature however the apple one felt more confortable. 

I could also see multiple desktops come into play for bigger protects. One of the designer runs a VM installation of Vista and XP in two seperate desktops this way he can easily test his projects. He can also open an additional project in a new desktop window. This keeps projects seperated and the work envirment less cluttered.

Are those better reasons?

Yes, those are better reasons, but I got to tell you that if you’ve got more than 4GB of ram, even on a 64 bit mac, Photoshop won’t be able to use that extra ram. 

Photoshop for mac is programmed in Carbon, which is the backward compatible version and they are discontinuing support for Carbon really soon. SO, no 64 bit photoshop for MACS Until CS4.  The Windows Guys are lucky for a few years.

I just started a new job last week. I’ve never used Mac’s before in my life. I was a die hard Windows man. But now, after working on the G5 iMac for a week, I’m converting all my computers to Mac’s. I’ll still keep a Windows laptop just for software that Mac doesn’t have.

What I like most is the ability to have so many things running at once. Today, I was running Cocoa MySQL, 4 files in DreamWeaver, 6 tabs in Firefox, 3 tabs in Safari, FileZilla was downloading 50MB of files, and I was talking on a web cam with Skype (plus I probably had other stuff open without knowing it). Flawless! The only thing that I don’t like is the cute ass, petite peripherals. I’m 6’9” and I have freakishly large hands. That little mouse and keyboard piss me off. But it’s a small price to pay.

I know Mac seems to be the big dog in web development circles, but I find it surprising that nobody has mentioned Linux in this thread yet. Personally, I couldn’t imagine developing on anything else. All my tools literally come with the OS, so there’s nothing to purchase except for the physical machine itself. I tried using a Mac once as my daily machine and while it was very nice, it didn’t really offer me anything that Linux couldn’t. I work for a web hosting company and we have two big datacenters filled with Linux servers. All of our support techns and network engineers run Linux on their desktops.

If all you’ve ever used was Windows or Mac, you might give a Linux distribution (such as the quite-popular Ubuntu) a try. If you’re familiar with the UNIX side of OS X, Linux isn’t going to be much different.

(Not trying to start a OS war or anything, just trying to contribute to the conversation.)

The main reason Mac’s are so big is because Adobe supports them and not other *nix operating systems. If Adobe made its software run on linix distros I would probably be running linux only. Currently I have a Windows PC at my house so I dual boot it with Fedora Core and Ubuntu.

@J-slim.  Yeah, and the Mac is extremely expensive. In fact if you bought that exact same machine, lets say for 2500 dollars, and I spent the same money on a Windows (or linux) based PC, The Windows PC would be faster, have more storage, more memory and probably a raid zero plus one on four WD Raptor Drives.

Macs are like the pretty chick. The dates are expensive but the nookies the same.
PC’s are like the fussy chick. The dates are frustrating but the nookies satisfying.
*nixies are like the Gothic chick. Once you figure them out, you never go back.

Another good point my coworker mentioned is that I don’t have to worry about viruses/spam ware/etc. since most people don’t take the time to write that kind of code for Mac’s. And I like how you don’t have to install anything. At least not in the traditional Windows method (download, install, restart). But on the other hand, no pirated software. Not that I participate in that sort of thing 😉