Computer Geeks in Movies.

[Lady's Human]

So in 1995 Mac was the industry standard and not MS?

For graphic arts work? Absolutely, and in many cases still is.

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For graphic arts work? Absolutely, and in many cases still is.

I whole heartedly agree, and not just for graphic arts. From what I hear hear Macs are far and away better then Winblowz for audio and video mixing.

But in 1995 did Mac have a big enough market share to even be considered a industry standard? Mac dosent have more then a 10% market share today.

[Lady's Human]

In 1995 if you walked into any graphics shop there were Macs, and only Macs.

Remember, the "killer apps" for Macintosh were the early Adobe creative products and Quark Xpress. They weren't even in play in the PC world. In 1995 there was enough of a PC inroads in those areas to have to be considered (hence the data conversion issues), but Mac was it.

Jobs had left Apple, they were licensing Mac platforms, and life in the Mac world was good.

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I get it now. A week late but I get it. Next time try to be more obvious.

Macs are still the heavy hitter for graphics and video editing, Im sure if Im wrong someone will try and show their superior knowledge here.

Back on topic, I did some searching and if we jump in the way back machine to '96, movies show the good guys using Macs.

Im sure if we were talking movies made in the countries that have the Euro as currency Macs would be the PC of choice for the Evil doers.

[Lady's Human]

Much of this has to do with product placement fees, which apple has been happy to pay over the years.

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Much of this has to do with product placement fees, which apple has been happy to pay over the years.

Well "Duh". Thats probably the main reason this bothers me.

Apple was more then happy to give school districts free gear to suck them in for future sales.

On the other hand I would not object to movies using Unix users as the bad guy as it would get Linux into the minds of users as more versatile then W7 or OSX.

ETA: More Unix users would probably cut into Puck's bottom line, my boss's as well.

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Maybe I should posted the thread, "You Must Use Windows and Microsoft Products to be productive in the corporate workplace". But I cant/couldnt do that because it isnt true. Microsoft Office does work, with 3 exceptions on Linux. Open Office can and does do the most used operations of MS Office.

Photoshop cost $800+ per license, where GIMP is free.

Our shop servers are migrating to Red Hat based servers going away from the Windows Server platforms, why?

To save our clients money.

Disclaimer: Im Drunk! Shocking, I know.

[Puckstop31]

ETA: More Unix users would probably cut into Puck's bottom line, my boss's as well.

Not really... If the customer wants Linux, the customer gets Linux. We highly recommend staying away from it because of reasons, A, B and most importantly C. But we will continue to support it.

Dan, making $$ in the IT industry has shockingly little to do with technology. The companies who brag about "we use technology X! Because it PWNS" are the first ones to go under.

We are blessedly doing very well right now... Because A, our people rock the casbah, B we have effective processes and process management in place and C, because we listen to the customer and make the tech do what THEY want, rather than shove OUR ideas at them.