THIS is why we love Macintosh...
 

Hmmm, ok.

If you don't get it, you ain't got it. ;)

...or don't want it. ;)

Get it, got it, good? :D
Dig the iDVD thing, I'll be needing that along with my new G4 laptop.

Also, mini iPod rulez!

JCM

First, iMovie (iDVD) is the most amazing piece of software I've seen. After creating pretty sophistocated video, 1 click reformats the whole thing to Quicktime and loads it on your webpage. Slick.

That's the area where Mac shines, for sure. I'm not a purist by any means, all my jobs (public university, recording studio/web development firm) use PC and Mac side by side. If you're in to multi-media or serious video/audio editing, I think that Mac is the only way to go.

Jason

Anyone watch the episode of Nova on PBS last night about the construction, launch, and landing of the Mars Spirit lander?

Apple notebooks everywhere.

I love my G4 powerbook. Just hooked a webcam to it. And I much rather have few good softwares than loads of junk. Never caught a virus on a Mac, too. Apple, Sony and Porsche are my three prefered companies for their outstanding engineering.

Aurel

if you go anywhere with real creative (say a recording studio or design firm) or real smart (say, JPL or Caltech) people, you see Apple computers.

For the last 4 years or so I've claimed that iMovie is the best piece of software out there. I still believe it (even though I now use FCP since I need a few more features).

The new version of iPhoto looks killer too. I actually haven't used the past versions much, although I finally broke down and used it last night. I had 30 photos that I took that I wanted to throw up on a web page real quick. My usual MO would be to batch scale them in GraphicConverter, then batch scale again to make thumbnails. Then I'd either use BBEdit and handcode a table page or use GoLive to do it visually. Instead, I pulled the photos into iPhoto, then chose "export" and told it to make a web page with what size I wanted the main photos, and size for the thumbnails. Click the button and viola, a file with all the files created. Upload that to my server and I'm done. That is sick...

I get it...the REALLY smart people don't want the computer getting in the way of getting work done. ;)

Err...that's missconception. I worked in three ad agencies and one post-production studio. Most of people using Mac's there were computer-illiterate Art Directors who had problems with two buttons on the mouse and had to have computer with only one. They spent most of their time in Photoshop and Illustrator.

All heavy stuff, like rendering, scanning and editin was done on PC workstations, or in case of really big jobs involving CG special effects to be printed on celluloid, on Silicon Graphics workstations.

Most of "creative" workplaces had bigger percentage of Mac's before...but most of them got tired of proprietary hardware, high prices and utterly bad bang for buck so nowadays you see fewer and fewer of them.

"The really smart people" use whatever they get by...high tech workes preffered SUN workstations but are now migrating towards Linux. Ipromise you, you won't see any Mac's doing any critical work at either Caltech or JPL...they have UNIX cans doing that.

Talking about generating HTML photo albums, that has been around for ages but on PC you had to have 3:rd hand software as ACDSee or something like that.

I like Mac beacuse it's pretty fuss-free and streamlined, but it all depends what you prioritize.