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To: ajtj99 who wrote (46102)	7/18/2002 10:06:02 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 209892

*OT* Of course everything crashes, that's why I'm offended by the Apple commercials that imply that PCs crash and Macs don't. I can't tell you how many times I had to rebuild the desktop or do a hardware reboot on my Mac. I've had to use Norton on the hard drive hundreds of times. When we first set it up, it had to have three clean installs before it worked for more than a day. When people ask me if Norton is necessary, I say its optional on the PC and absolutely necessary on the Mac. I've used the Macs my clients have, all photographers and graphic designers and not a one of them has been problem free. When they have a problem they call Mac Medics for $125/hour. Photoshop runs like chit on 95-98 but its bullet proof on NT. Primarily the protected memory and the ability to use more than 128 mbs of ram is what makes it run so much better on NT than 98. NT with its virtual machine architecture makes a more stabile platform than the Mac (maybe not in comparison to the latest X which allegedly has protected memory). For years you couldn't find a Mac that could do what I do every day which was print to 6 different printers at once. You'd go into these big Mac shops and lo and behold their network print servers and RIPs were NT machines. I hear the background printing is better these days on the Mac, but I still have never seen someone else do what I can do on an old PC in terms of multitasking. You don't hear cursing from the graphics dept because designers tend to be completely brainwashed when it comes to their Macs (they cost so much more so they must be better, right?). I have people tell me over and over that their Mac never gives them any trouble only to tell me five minutes later about some lost day to computer problems. I have a friend who works at a big magazine. They bought the cubes a few years ago for everyone.....what a joke, my friend told me if you turned your back for a few minutes the machine would go to sleep and then crash when you tried to wake it back up to finish working on your document. Another client of mine bought one of those Graphite laptops, he started leaving it in his car so it would get stolen because it turned out to be such a nightmare. I use PCs for graphics and PCs for everything else. Although I do use the Mac to rebuild desktops on the removable drives I get from my Mac clients. My NT graphics machines haven't crashed in three years counting (can't say the same for the 98 machine). Meanwhile I have Mac clients who tell me they do a reboot after half a day of switching between Photoshop and Quark because the programs don't want to give up the memory even when they use programs that are designed to make them give it up.