Oh please Porterville. As I stated above this was a sarcastic response to your mindless snipe at Mac users. I have counseled both for and against installation of Mac’s and have run into more Windows fanboys and snobs on FR and in my personal life than I have the reverse. You have simply added to that list.
Mac users use Macs because they like Macs. They don’t use Macs because they are artists, musicians, or editors; they use Macs because they like the OS. Can they be a little smug at times? Yes. As can Windows users.
Fact is, most “artists” that I know are Windows users. (I work in the graphics industry - on Win XP.) Starving, goateed, latte swilling artists are most often seen in cafes pounding away on their Dell laptops around here. And this is in no way to disparage starving, goateed, latte swilling artists.
Your problem seems to go deeper than Mac vs PC. Did you have a girlfriend who dumped you for a Mac using artist? You can vent here. We’ll understand. Just be honest. Really. We’re here for you.
Actually, a lot of Mac users use Macs for the simple reason that the Mac is better for their needs than a Wintel PC. My step-mother is a very good example of this. She just bought an iMac, and I flew out to migrate her work from her PC to the new Mac.
The simple fact is that the Mac is simpler for her to deal with. She can do things on the Mac that she was never able to do on the PC. It just makes more sense to her. I would get calls 4 or 5 times a week to help her solve problems that she was having with her PC, but I have yet to hear anything bad from her about the Mac.
Of course, you'll probably say that she should have learned more about the PC. The problem is that some people are just hardwired differently: That attitude is like saying you should "learn" to be a composer. The simple fact is that she's a graphic artist and since moving to the Mac her productivity has increased about 3 fold.
And I was advising her to upgrade to a new, faster PC. I found a nice one with a 20" wide screen monitor for just over $500. But she paid about $1500 for the iMac (with the extended warranty), and she's glad that she spent the additional thousand dollars. It was worth it for her. And, I suspect, for many other Mac users.
BTW, my favorite part about these threads is when people who know NOTHING about what the users' needs are tell them that they should be using something or another! What a hoot!
Mark
I can’t get past your inability to do math.... so, I just figure you can’t reason either.