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Posted by doc on 06/22/06 15:05
hmmmmm, proprietary software, not much (if hardly any) 3rd party stuff, 1
repair center in 100 miles while there are at least 20+ pc repair stations,
they crashed all the time, apple/mac tech support solution to any major
issue is just "reboot" the entire system, fcp crashes, they take at least
twice as long to render as our pc's, can't get a lot of user support because
most people are using pc, apple/mac lied about service - said to go to a
authorized repair station for a warranty claim (bad mother board on 3 month
old g5) and then wouldn't warranty it because we took it to the only
apple/mac dealer we could find in 82 miles which was an authorized apple/mac
factory repair station but not an authorized apple/mac warranty station
(geez, there's a difference? yep that's what the warranty station said -
and so did useless tech support and sales and customer service), they only
run apple/mac software (although their doing everything they can to look
like a pc cause they know themselves pc is the way to go), hmmmmmm . . .
need i go much further and list all 1,000 reasons?
we had two NEW g5's with fcp to edit television production for a 30 minute
talk show and regardless of whether machine the render times were
sooooooooooooo long that we got where we'd just set up the renders and then
let them render overnight. only problem is we had to do two renders which
meant that we had to do a show over two days or let a machine be tied up all
day. with about 6-8 hours other work on the shows, this meant that
turnaround time was 3 days minimum (let alone often fcp crashes or operating
system crashes) . . so . . when the one g5 was rendered BAD and we took all
day to go to that "authorized repair station" and so we picked up a hot pc
(for about one third what we paid for the mac) a nice new unopend copy of
liquid edition from pinnacle (now updated to avid liquid 7) and with little
more than a training dvd from paul mitton, we were up and running in a
heartbeat once we got used to the user friendly GUI (instead of the hard to
work with fcp gui) and found that it's (liquid's) complete and total windows
shortcut GREATS allowed us to finish a project in not 3 days but 1 - -
that's right ONE! renders were cut to about 1 hr each instead of half a day
(or more) and we could train a monkey to do the routine tasks (whereas it
took days to train an operator on fcp to do mundane tasks) and the reason?
pc's are everywhere and the pile of 3rd party applications are greater than
the number of words inside all the messages in this group, let alone, we
have litterally zillions of support folks in literally zillions of support
groups the minute we went PC - windows . . why? cause it's the number one
operating environment for consumer, prosumer, and professionals, for all
around platform applications and uses. within that 82 mile window there's
gotta be 30 dealers who at a seconds notice can answer a question and lead
us down the right path, . . . why . . . a 10 year old kid helped us with one
snag but he's never seen a mac, nor has any of the other folks we got street
help from.
so if you want to go out on an island and basically live alone and be your
own tech support and cry on your own shoulders, get urself one of those
supposed hot (SLOW) macs and live like a prince but if you like to get help
from others, operate FAST, and live like a KING, then go PC with M$
Windows - - i'm a M$ Windows fan right? WRONG! i was the last person on
the earth to try windows because i'm an old dos and linux guy . . but the
truth is the truth . . with windows you can litterally do anything since it
became an operating system and not a gui application.
well not from mineappolis but i'm a real time user who runs a tv production
house and multimedia productions and our switch has saved us a lot of
heartaches.
drd
"Rayne" <mineapollo@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> doc wrote:
>> good luck pal. that's one of the 1,000 reasons we got rid of our macs !!
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> Really? Thats interesting...do tell, why else?
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