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What is your opinion?

Jim
 
Mac. Retina Macbook Pro- best laptop I ever owned. Thunderbolt. Works fantastic- Rocket in external box is a game changer. I expect the upcoming Mac Pro to be "the" computer to have for all production needs. Having been contacted by a Final Cut Pro X employee after an issue here also made me feel assured of their commitment. Will stick with Apple for the time being.
 
I promise not to delete this one.

Jim

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Jim, the last time you started a mac thread you ended up deleting it. But if you must know... Mac.
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Gave PC a try on a real beefy machine, and despite everything apple has done to piss off the pro market, still prefer Mac.
 
Professionally:
We are a 50/50 house. We have JMR RAID and two PCI expansion bay systems loaded with RED Rockets and nVIDIA cards. Around 60 TB of RAID 50 storage. We swap mini-SAS cables back and forth between a 2012 Mac Pro and a Maingear custom PC.

We're extremely fast, cost-effective, and put all of the big storage and decoding hardware in the middle. The Mac Pro and PC are now just terminals to us. For everything else, we use a mobile DIT rig we built (MacBook Pro Retina) and Microsoft Surface Pros.

Personal:
On the home automation front, it's all Apple.
 
I make it my business to cater to everybody's workflow needs, but I'm a Windows guy.

A good chunk of studios I do work for are Linux based and back when I was at my old studio gig it's what we used.
 
I believe 2014 will be the year where Mac finally catches up again with a complete solution for all that we need (including native mac 4k display). In the mean time we are too invested in Mac to switch over to something else to then switch again. I agree with Carlos... despite all that Apple has done to us... we just can´t seem to quit it.
 
Shure Apple has done some weird things the last couple of years. But I do believe they are pushing things forward. I like the way the try to make things simple witch means easier to use and in the end more time to create for me.

I´m staying Mac. Now with FCPX things are looking better for the future and I hope they get a serious Logic out the door and some alternative to the Mac Pro. Jim, if you have som contact at Apple please push some buttons.

So Mac for me!
 
I've been a mac guy most of my professional life. Honestly I'm frustrated to find myself probably needing to change. I'm slick, efficient and practised on mac, it's transparent to the process. Clients often comment that I work fast and it's a point of professional pride and importance for me.

Unfamiliarity with Windows leaves me feeling amateurish and lost... I'm probably still more than averagely capable, but the last few percent are hard won and it sucks to even consider that degree of retraining of muscle memory and instinctive operation.
 
Windows

The reason is quite simple: more hardware options, more software choices from more diverse range of vendors.
It is the leading OS any way you look at it and whether you like it or not, de-facto standard.
 
Apple and their Pro user base: It's like a pathological relationship gone bad between dysfunctional lovers... but you stay anyway because the sex is still good.
 
I'm a Microsoft Alumni (Redmond and Toronto) and I've worked on Macs all of my life. The advantage with shifting most of the heavy lifting and all of the storage to the middle is that I'm no longer at the mercy of being completely tied to MS or Apple. Now we plug in whatever works best for the moment or whatever we're feeling up to doing. Generally speaking, if we're working on effects shots, I go PC. If I'm editing, I'll typically fire up FCP-X.

It's really nice not feeling at the mercy of anyone.

If you're on a PC feeling tugs at the heart for a Mac/FCP-X/ProRes, or if you're bogged down on Mac and tired of being strapped to a lackluster "Pro" line... take my advice: Shift everything to the middle and treat your OS like a terminal.

Thanks to Adobe Cloud, Microsoft 365, DropBox, SkyDrive, JMR, and of course RED, it is now very cost effective to run both platforms. Break the chains. Run 'em both!
 
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Mac. Switched from PC about 6 years ago and have never had a reason to go back. I feel RED leaning (slightly) towards PC support, and I really hope you don't leave the rest of the industry to continue in that direction. I do like REDs support of both right now though. Do not change a thing! (except for the pricing on your rocket cards...)
 
Mac!
A business partner was a hardcore Windows guy but since he converted to Mac he never looked back.
 
Mac. 2 reasons:

- I much prefer Mac's OS to Windows.
- ProRes. 90% of all the work I do sooner or later ends up in ProRes. As long as there is no easy way to work with ProRes on a PC, the market around here will not accept PCs as their post workstations (easy = no special app needed, integrated in the NLE). Even then, I'm not sure all the fancy agency people would like to switch. They do like their nicely designed Macbooks...

That said, I envy all the windows guys for all the options they have hardware-wise. Let's just hope Apple steps up their game.
 
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