My first computer was a Mac Plus. At that point the choice was between the drag and drop interface of Mac and memorizing commands in DOS. It was a no brainer for me.
I was forced into the Windows world when Symphony came out on PC only. (lack of enough PCI slots, a Steve Jobs victory). I've been through all the iterations of Windows since then, and the Mac iterations from before permissions being an issue to now. And if you don't se how the two systems have come towards each other, you aren't paying attention.
I now manage a lot of systems that are split between Windows and OSX. And I can't agree with your assessment that Mac is so much better. It takes me a few minutes to make the system adjustments on a PC after a fresh install that optimize it for Avid work. But there tweaks on the Mac side also.
But the real difference comes in running MC/Symphony on the two platforms. I for one don't prefer the wonderful crashes on Mac, where you are suddenly looking at the desktop and have lost all of your work, vs. the less common crashes in Windows which throw up an assertion error allowing you to save your work before elegantly restarting the app.
And that is the most important thing to me as an operator. A crash that loses work done, is a time loser and therefore a money loser. Combine that with the planned obsolescence that we have to put up with on the Apple side, and the "We are not an open platform" surtax, and as an equipment purchaser I have to lean PC.
All that said, I am all Mac at home where Apple has the more elegant solution.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> Windows and Mac OS becoming more alike? I want what you're smoking!
> Managing a PC and getting one optimized to do anything productive is a lot
> more work and a ton more trouble than it is worth. Mac OS and Mac OS Server
> are so much more elegant and less kludgey than anything Windows has ever
> made. If forced to leave Mac OS, I'd go to Linux before Windows.
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> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "jonathansabrams" <jonathansabrams@>
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> > << I use Windows by force, not by choice. While I am disappointed that the
> > new Mac Pro does not have PCIe slots, I will choose to use an expansion
> > chassis before I choose to use Windows.>>
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> > I use both, and with each passing year they become more alike. Right down
> > to the attempt to catch up to Windows 8 with iOS7.
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