| Game_boy said: Linux Linux Linux Best of both worlds. Wine for Linux runs World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, and many other games at the same speed as Windows, and you get all your applications free, and you get the security |
Fixed. Mac OS X is still the slowest out of XP and Linux. They made big strides with 10.5 in this department so I didn't include Vista which is about as fast on the same computer. Macs are more secure though. Linux is still the fastest.
Macs use nice Hardware. They are hardly the fastest you can get by a long shot though. They recenetly just included the 8800 on the Mac Pros before this it was the 7300 and Quadro 4600 instead of the newer cards(this is for 10.5.2. and above by the way. They just made the move from GMA 950 to X3100 for their base notebook graphics card. Their Hardware does lag. When you see Mac Hardware runs windows the fastest what you see is them comparing their pro versions with consumer end HW. For instance they compare their xeon based Mac Pros to Core2duo based XPSs instead of xeon based Precisions. They compare their Macbook Pro with different category notebooks as well.
I use both Macs and PCs. I prefer to edit video on a PC and even soundwork on a PC. It is not a matter of price Avid/After Effects ain't cheap. FCP pro is nice too I do like the color correction tools it has but even that has been improved in Vista and After Effects. For consumer type video programs though Imovie is king and it is fairly nice to rip one out fairly quick with that.
Nah for me it is PC Windows/Linux dual boot and the occasional OSX.
