Hate to break it to panache45, but the PC base was always ahead. When Apple fans liked their graphic options, they were using special non-apple equipment to make it work.
And the PC had had the equivalent packages many years prior from GemDraw, GemPaint, GemPublish, and the suite of CorelDraw, etc.
What made Apple famous was having only one working graphics system and everyone in the fan club had the same thing, so instead of comparing each package to the other they were forced to compare Apple vs. PC
Kudos !! The idea of comparing two CPU’s that just happen to have different labels on them is, and always has been, comical. Sort of hits more of an emotional nerve than an objective argument. But I should apologize for my being a jerk on the emotional issue, but maybe I won’t because the question should have been “What is the best graphical design software”?
By the way, I have looked at 1000’s of web pages … why do so many of those supposely done on a MAC have a statement on the bottom of their web page saying it was done on a MAC? I have NEVER seen a web page saying it was done on a IBM Compatible PC! How on this Earth could this possibly matter? Is the html, Java, Flash different in ftp space when coming from a MAC … oh … get hotting again … sorry … I’m out of here …
Thanks again La King for also even addressing this thread … Andi
Funny you should mention that, this is precisely the point when Macs were so far ahead of PCs that everyone used Macs. Back in the early days, Macs could use large contiguous areas of RAM, but PCs could only used 64k memory pages. A PC could use more than 64k of RAM, but it was difficult to access by programs, so programmers hated to write graphics programs for the PC, it was too difficult to store files internally that were over 64k. So what you ended up with was programs like PCPaint that could work on small files under 64k, but the Mac graphics people were using programs like PixelPaint that could work on large image files like 4 or 6Mb or more. Macs were way ahead of PCs in memory usage, PCs didn’t catch up until something like Windows95.
GEM? Don’t make me laugh, I used those apps, they were terrible and amateurish.
You have alluded to something that makes the Mac superior, and still makes it superior. Everyone uses the same hardware platform. Application and OS programmers don’t have to waste time assuring their apps run correctly on different processor chips and different motherboards designs. Macs are a unified platform, PCs are a fragmented platform and getting worse all the time.
To address some remarks by Barney, font compatibility is still a problem. PC fonts are in a different format from Mac fonts, even if they’re Type 1. Fonts are not cross-platform, and since PCs are the minority, PC users will always have trouble working with files generated on Macs. Even worse, service bureaus have difficulty working with non-embedded PC fonts. Embedding fonts is no solution, it guarantees that only PCs can edit your files, and woe unto you if your Mac service bureau needs to fix an output problem. They’ll be calling YOU for file fixes when they’d normally just fix it themselves.
Cross-platform file formats like .eps are also more difficult to use by PCs, I just worked with some corporate PC users who had trouble sending Corel Draw files between machines that were running different versions of Corel, so I put them on my Mac and converted them. Macs are universal file format machines, they can work with any PC or Mac file format, PCs can’t.
Color matching? That is not a Pantone problem. The problem is continuous tone images like photographs. I’ve never seen 2 PCs that were able to display the same photoshop file in anything close to the same color. Just to give an example, I used to run an Iris inkjet printer, the state of the art color proofing device, and I spent much effort calibrating it with colorimeters and spectrophotometers, this was the era before ColorSync. I used to have PC clients come in and look at their CMYK images on my Mac RGB screen, and complain that the images shifted colors. And then when I printed them, they looked exactly like they did on my screen. Their PCs were out of calibration. This happened EVERY time I ran PC files.
Boy, you don’t get around much in PC circles either, do you? The Intel vs. AMD flamewars make the PC vs. Mac argument seem positively polite in comparison.
Intel/AMD processors are technically inferior, they are CISC and PowerPC is RISC. There is no PC-based RISC solution, Intel does have a RISC chip, they bought the Alpha chip from DEC. Good luck getting an Intel RISC machine for under $10k. And it definitely won’t run Photoshop or anything useful.
This thread is closed. Perhaps someday this discussion can occur without people personalizing it.
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