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Originally posted by nostatic
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.
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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.