Comments on: SWITCHOFF: Freelancing…Mac or PC?

By: G

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:42:22 +0000

I use Ubuntu, and design with Inkscape and Gimp, both great tools.
This post reminded me a Katty Sierra one, has pretty funny images, here’s the link.
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/11/passion_is_blin.html
The whole Creating Passionate Users Blog is a great reference.

By: Goobimama

Goobimama — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:45:48 +0000

I just don’t see where you guys are getting the viruses on mac thing from. There are no viruses (known, uncontained) for the mac (yet). So I NEVER worry about google’s warning that there might be harmful software on the other end…

Btw, for hand coding web designers, nothing on the Windows end, and I mean NOTHING, beats Coda from Panic software. The interface is so smooth, it gives a whole new feel to hand coding. Mac wins hands down!

By: Kurt Munro

Kurt Munro — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:57 +0000

I’m a Windows-based graphic designer. Yes, they exist. I’ve used OSX for a few years while studying, and no, I’m not even slightly tempted to switch to Mac. Macs, I’ve found, are for people who are reasonably ignorant about computing - arty people and females usually - attracted by the pretty colours and smooth design.

Who needs GarageBand when it’s in the “Windows Movie Maker” realms of simplicity, when we already have our pick of far more powerful music apps? Oh yeah, I forgot, it has smooth gradients so it must be the best.

If you install a virus scanner (avast?), and a firewall there’s no real reason you should ever get a virus on Windows XP. The worst spyware you’ll get will be cookies, which are pretty benign, and most forms where you type important information are encrypted anyway, such as Amazon etc. Macs get cookies too.

By: Jonker

Jonker — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:51:45 +0000

Has anyone ever considered this: If you use a wizzard on windows XP (whichever wizard, and there are a lot of them) it asks you questions that no home user would understand or at least has to read twice to understand.

Then the computer starts to think and all kinds of activity goes on on the hard drive, it ask for an instalation CD en wants to reboot for changes to take effect.

As you can tell I am an Mac user who finds these things utterly incomprehensible.

The clear, clean and very logical interface on a Mac is sellingpoint number 1.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:19:43 +0000

While Mac and PC fight and argue Linux silently gets all the real work done….

“What PC? You need a TCP/IP stack? My friend BSD has a good one you can have for free.”

“Poor Mac, Safai 0.1 is pretty bad huh? Why don’t you use the KHTML engine I have from the KDE project. Heck you can even brand it WebKit if you want more publicity.”

By: Louisa Nicholson

Louisa Nicholson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:17:34 +0000

Funny article, but I would have liked to get more detailed information I couldn’t get in a normal conversation - because everyone experiences this conservation now-a-days. Like the following:

- am I able to run a software comparable to Visual Studio on the Mac?
- what platforms am I able to install on a PC?
- how can I get companies to convert apps to the Mac OS?

Speaking of which, the most odd thing occurred to me the other week. I found out that a new game for a Mac was only available on the Intel Mac - if you had an Intel Mac you could run Windows, so why would they develop the game only for it?! Very odd.

By: GodsDead

GodsDead — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:56:11 +0000

Hmm, too bad that the three majour companys could work together on a ultimate operating system were all from the same world! its pathetic, im a windows + linux user, seeing that i cant afford anything apple, and it apple seems too simple, i have used it only at collage for recording, and works great, but just lacked.. stuff.. i dont know how to phrase that lol.
Yea apple and Microsoft should work together, to create an amazing user interface and programmes, with a unix backbone, so that the linux users can create and edit the system. that would be cool =]

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:15:36 +0000

PC all the way!!
Mac does not even come close with the price, combability etc all counting against it

By: Kishau

Kishau — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:07:20 +0000

I use both. Most of my application development software is on Windows … so I still use Windows mostly for app. development and accounting. I’m a long time Windows user so I have invested tons in Windows software.

After some kicking and screaming (on my end) my spouse convinced me to buy a Mac … to simply try it for personal use (i.e. “fun stuff”). However, I now use the Mac for most of my web design work.

I prefer and actually enjoy using the Mac OS. For some reason I feel more “inspired” working on a Mac.

By: Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:44:55 +0000

I’m a windows web designer and have been for years. We seem to be few and far between. Soon I will be joining the other side though. When I was at the Future of Web Design conference last year in London we were asked, by a show of hands, who uses Mac and who uses Windows. Of the odd 1000 people there I think about 10 of us put our hands up when Windows was mentioned. At that point I realized its not just a pretty face, it’s a much better friend for a web designer. It can handle design apps much better than Windows can.