Anybody who is ANYBODY in the Graphics field knows that a REAL designer/artist doesn't use a Windows version of Photoshop or Illustrator.
Companies that use PC's in their art departments are jokes. They like to use the "Cost & Support" excuse for not using the machines that were really meant to do these jobs. If you buy a cheap PC to run PS on, good luck getting it to do anything more than create a couple layers and some cloning.
Sorry, but that absolutly not true. There are "many problems" with Apple devices in foreign countrys like mine while Apple products have not bigger market-share.
The first thing is: MacOS X is not translated into many languages.
Look here, how many langueages does support MS:
Locale Language Program.
Than there is the problem, that Apple stuff is quite expensive here in EU. You know, their caltulations equals 1 $ = 1 €.
I'm working with 4 press services here in my local area, and only one of these has 2 Mac (quite old models now: 1 x PowerMac G4 533 Digital Audio and 1 x 800 MHz Quicksilver - these two are mainly used as RIP station and sincer the drivers for the machine are only MacOS 9.x compatible).
Most people i know are also working on Windows PCs. Some of these were switchers, but not to the Apple sider, rather opposite.
Why is that? Because most of us don't have time and money to bring/send our Mac workstation into any service that is 300 km or more from us... if a RAM dies i simply go into the local PC shop and buy a new one. Or of course there is also the guarantee, if you buy separate parts.
Maybe Apple is successfull on big EU markets (UK, Germany, France, maybe Italy, Spain... Poland?). But in other countrys EU (most eastern states) there is no local Apple Support or Distribution just some Resellers.
Read this:
http://wewantapplehungary.com/
I also did sold my PowerMac G5. I had so much bad luck with it - 3x change of the Motherboard, two of these were in guarantee time, the third had to payer out of pocket. For 700 € in 2007 i would get a superduper PC config. And finally after so much trouble i did decide to sale my PowerMac. Now i'm on a PC and for now i'm quite
Sadly, thats the true.
My main problem with Apple is, that they don't have a computer, a case, that would be the 1/3 or max. half price of the Mac Pro, a computer, where you could simply upgrade the RAM, change the graphic card, add a second HDD.
A Mac mini is not my option. The Mac Pro is far too expensive.
Also sorry for my english.
And tell me how exactly you will utilize that 64-bit technology? You won't.
Of course i will not utilize it. But the 64-bit Photoshop is meant for those who need to work with large files and need that much of memory support (4 GB and up).
Right now i'm using 4 GB of RAM and that is good enough for my everyday work.