I'm getting a new G5 finally woo-hoo!

[complain jane]

I'm an After Effects animator at a tv station and we switched from Quantel systems to Dells. After TWO YEARS of crashes and headaches, my boss finally threw in the towel and switched to G5's.

I haven't had a problem since.

I'm so happy I took out a loan against my 401K to get myself one too! I can't wait.

[emulatorloo]

1. But Microsoft Abcess won't run on a Mac!

:)

Glad to hear another Boss has gone to Hell because of Dell. Congrats on the new G5 bnth at work and at home. . .

:toast:

(PS did you get AE 6.5 or did you sit it out?)

[complain jane]

2. I have 6.5 on my work machine now.

The only thing that kinda stinks is Invigorator. Invigorator was faster on the Dell but the Dell crashed so often it didn't matter, I spent more time waiting for the Dell POS to reboot than working.

Garbage.

I don't mind PC's for surfing the web but that's about it. Microsucks Windblows is so friggen unstable and I have a firewall and still find about 30 pieces of crap downloaded into my machine each time I run Ad Aware.

I won't miss that.

[Ezlivin]

3. Most people overlook the time involved in managing the computer

There are a number of apps that run faster on a Windows machine. But if you add in the time need to keep the machine running or to keep the application running properly, the faster speed of execution becomes a moot point.

I was the network administrator and desktop support for a floor of graphic artists, each of whom were using Macs. I had to work very little to keep all the machines in good working order.