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Graphics designers do not choose OSX. This is a myth. I do 3d animation and graphic design. I use a custom built PC. Most of my colleagues use PC's too. Very rarely do I find people in my industry that use Macs. Those that do, either use them because that is what their company uses, or they were told by their older professors to use Macs and that windows sucks. I know, I was an art major in college and all my digital art professors used Macs. I had two teachers tell me that I could not do digital art or graphic design if I didn't use a Mac. I have heard similar stories from others that do web design, 3d, matte painting, and concept art.
I say use whatever you are comfortable with. Both systems can do pretty much the same thing.
very well said. it "USED TO BE" a fact that photoshop ran better on RISC processors, ie motorola CPUS, but that was pre OS9 era where windows was still in 95/2000 and two camps were using different hardwares. adobe's photoshop happened to run better on RISC based processors.
now that both camps use exact same X86 based hardware, with similar UI, and almost identical underlying engine. there really is NO difference, nor advantage on using either. people who still say using Macs, or PC for design graphic work should really have their heads exam-ed, or be reminded how ignorant they sound.
i too work explicitly in the CG, graphics, design industry. i alone used PC's all throughout my school years for all my work since OS9 windows 2000/98. even then, there was nothing i couldn't do on my PC considering the PC i was using was a RISC based AMD athlon processor.
fast forward a decade later, i am still in the graphics industry. it really is all up to what your company's prefer platform is. generally speaking, unless if there's "one" software a company explicityly use that is not available or supported on a particular platform, typically, the choice of OS platform is chosen by the management due to their preference.
i personally use OSX at work, because our email system is setup in a way that works better with OSX's mail and i-cal than it does on my outlook. but 90% of our entire facility pipeline is PC based, as is the case with the majority of the post production visual effects industry. but when i am at home, doing anything else, i prefer PC. that's just because it's what i prefer, or what i am used to. i like both OS's, having used both extensively in the past, i can say they both have their pro's and cons. there're certain things OSX shine, while others windows 7 does better.
