Truthfully, how many REAL media/science companies use macs?

[Schiffi]

Well, the university that I will be attending in the fall only works with Macs in the Arts building. Though video work using Adobe Premiere is quite sub-par due to a little audio sync problem I've been having. In addition the Quicktime Capture plugin takes the longest time to load! I think QT has something to do with Premiere's problems though.

I admit that Photoshop is a little more responsive in OSX than XP.

 

[BrittasMac]

The Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA makes extensive use of Macintoshes. Aside from JPL they are in widespread use at Caltech.

 

[alphaq619]

Im a mech. engineering student and one of my professors uses macs. His lab consists of 2 Powermac G4s, 2 Powerbooks, and an iBook all networked together. He specializes in robotic design. I asked him and says he uses macs mainly for OSX and Unix. I also work on campus at the bookstore and I know that all of our signage, advertising (print and video), and our website are all made on macs.

 

[crackpip]

The physics department at my university has quite a few more macs than pcs in their main computer lab, and there are a significant number of professors who have macs in their offices (I don't think its a majority but I think at least 30%).

The Earth science dept, which I am currently enrolled in, has a mac lab and a lab running freeBSD, and half of the professors in the atmospheric side run macs. The one geophysics professor that I know uses macs for his desktop (although his earth model runs on a small cluster of bsd machines).

In addition, I took a couple of upper-level fluids classes from the Mechanical Engineering dept here, and the prof. was a mac user.

Also we've had a couple of NASA scientists visit our department, they were mac users.

I've had friends and students tell me that the creative arts dept is almost exclusively mac.

Supposedly, people with my kind of training are in short supply, so hopefully I'll be able to leverage my demand for a mac workstation/laptop in my future job environment.

crackpip

 

[friendlyghost]

MTV uses tons of macs.