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If I may chime in, I bought a Mac because Final Cut Studio was the standard in the entertainment industry and it was only available on a Mac even though the prototype was made for a PC as well, but that's no longer the case since studios and small marketing agencies use either Avid Media Composer and/or Adobe Premiere Pro.

Some studios used Avid before FCS, then changed to FCP7, then back to Avid because FCPX haunted every editor in 2011.

Yup, id put that under productivity. I'm in the same boat as you were originally- I use Logic. Though when I started years back it was still being developed for Windows, the industry was mainly using Macs. Now that Logic is OSX exclusive, well...

Final Cut- That is a sad story indeed. Luckily the (mainly self contained) developers is Logic have been able to keep the pro features going and not follow the FCX path.
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I bought my first mac because of performance. It had better cpu and GPU specs at a lower price than any pc laptop available on the market.

And did OSX factor into that, or did you Bootcamp it and buy for the performance specs alone?
 
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@Simplicated and @Ovedius thanks for your answers guys!

Nothing big I see, but well the icons is a good one! Probably one of the most annoying things of windows since ever! :D

I read somewhere that you should not have files on desktop in Mac because it could slow down speed is it true?
Well, my desktop is a mess. I have 303 files and folders (82GB) on it and have no performance issues. This is early 2008 MBP with old SSD and 6GB of RAM so not a power house either.
 
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Wow, it seems that iGPUs are making a comeback. I used to remember years ago they were a hassle to deal with and every tech geek said to me "buy a dGPU", now you can run anything including Avid/Adobe without a hiccup.

I'm looking forward to see the Iris 580s in action...

You're right, just a few years ago anyone who knew just at tiny bit about computer hardware would know that an igpu was a joke
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And did OSX factor into that, or did you Bootcamp it and buy for the performance specs alone?

Os x did factor in, but not very much. Because at the time I would have had no issue getting a pc laptop and hackintoshing it
 
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Final Cut- That is a sad story indeed. Luckily the (mainly self contained) developers is Logic have been able to keep the pro features going and not follow the FCX path.

The funny thing is that the same guy who helped developed Final Cut Pro 7, is the same guy who developed Final Cut Pro X. FCPX would've been great if they added the same yet better features like it was offered of its predecessor. However, this didn't happen and Apple was targeting novice editors which is funny since they already have iMovie.

FCPX has been given a new nickname called "iMovie Pro".
 
I read somewhere that you should not have files on desktop in Mac because it could slow down speed is it true?

From what I've heard, it is true. If you don't have an SSD, you'll see it lag on a traditional hard drive. I wouldn't recommend putting my stuff on a desktop even though I know it's convenient. Just put the stuff you're aren't going to use on an external drive. The main drive or system drive is meant for apps and small items only.

However, I would like to hear from other takers on this subject.[/user]
 
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From what I've heard, it is true. If you don't have an SSD, you'll see it lag on a traditional hard drive. I wouldn't recommend putting my stuff on a desktop even though I know it's convenient. Just put the stuff you're aren't going to use on an external drive. The main drive or system drive is meant for apps and small items only.

However, I would like to hear from other takers on this subject.

You can put files in every size on your system drive. It doesn't matter!
 
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if apple pull a 'one more thing' off without a single leak, I'll be damned.

That would be divine

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