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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:22
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John Slade wrote: > Now it seems > Apple's OS X is becoming stagnant and Microsoft is far ahead with > Windows 7. Well Microsoft has at least leveled the playing field in most respects, and passed OS-X in others. Now the reason to buy a Mac is that you like the design of the hardware or you need to run one of the applications that isn't available for the PC. I.e., I know my nephew sticks with the Mac because he does a lot of freelance non-linear editing work with FinalCut Pro, which isn't available for Windows. He also uses Avid, but FinalCut is faster if the projects aren't too complex. The extra cost of the hardware is lost in the noise if he can complete projects a bit faster. Of course some of his colleagues run OS-X on high-end non-Apple machines, but it really isn't worth the hassle of doing this because there's always something that doesn't work quite right, and the monetary savings are small. Apple's approach of diversifying out of just selling Intel based hardware into more profitable areas where their strength in ergonomics and human factors helps them dominate is very smart indeed.
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