I’m pretty sure the standard is building your own can be slightly cheaper, depends which peripherals you already own since those aren’t usually part of a build every time.
But anyways, the advantage is that the built device will last longer and is made of replaceable parts that are cheap and easy to find. Easy to upgrade.
Geekbench can be a benchmark for comparable performance. You can look up benchmarks for Mac models and then find comparable performance PC parts under benchmark charts.
Realistically there are infinite comparison possibilities but in raw performance/$$$ the PC almost always wins. This is nothing new, been this way for ages and ages.
It doesn’t matter and I don’t care enough to go and research all that information for you. I already know. If you want to know, you can go and research it for yourself.
I have researched this many times. PCs of similar quality and performance cost about the same as Apple’s products. That’s without taking the higher resale value into account.
No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.
The latter, yes. If you go to a meeting and don’t have a MBP, they’re going to think you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And if you have a MBP for remote work, you might as well have an iMac or a Mac Pro to do work with at home too.
I’m out of the industry now and my MBP died, so I’m running Mint on a Thinkpad. And when this iMac dies, I’ll probably do something similar.
But if you are in the industry and show up to a meeting with a Thinkpad (or any other non-Mac), they’re often going to think you’re an amateur.
Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.
You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.
27" 2015 iMac here. No problems whatsoever. I’m going to use this thing until it dies.
Edit: Gotta love the downvotes for literally just owning a Mac. Good luck breaking into the industry as a video editor without one, guys.
A PC will run circles around a Mac for half the price, what are you talking about? They require you to use a Mac for some reason?
Please spec out a PC with similar hardware to a Mac and half the cost.
Okay. How about a 7800x3d and a 4080? EZPZ.
No case, no board, no power supply, no OS. You don’t even give a machine you compare to.
I’m pretty sure the standard is building your own can be slightly cheaper, depends which peripherals you already own since those aren’t usually part of a build every time.
But anyways, the advantage is that the built device will last longer and is made of replaceable parts that are cheap and easy to find. Easy to upgrade.
Please provide an Apple model and a comparable PC with prices.
Give me a model to compare to? Are all apple models the same? Or do you mean just pick any of them?
Geekbench can be a benchmark for comparable performance. You can look up benchmarks for Mac models and then find comparable performance PC parts under benchmark charts.
Pick one and find a comparable PC.
The MacBook Air is the best selling model, so take that if you don’t want to choose yourself.
Because none of that is going to matter.
Realistically there are infinite comparison possibilities but in raw performance/$$$ the PC almost always wins. This is nothing new, been this way for ages and ages.
It matters if you want to compare prices between complete functioning machines with comparable performance.
It doesn’t matter and I don’t care enough to go and research all that information for you. I already know. If you want to know, you can go and research it for yourself.
I have researched this many times. PCs of similar quality and performance cost about the same as Apple’s products. That’s without taking the higher resale value into account.
It’s called an industry standard. You have heard of those before, I presume.
Of course I have. But standards are not necessarily mandatory. Would you care to elaborate on this “standard” you speak of?
No, I don’t care to hold your hand and explain to you the whole idea of an industry preferring you have a specific piece of technology over others and how finding out you have that piece of technology helps you get work. You’ll have to figure that one out for yourself.
Seems highly unlikely that an employer cares terribly about what kind of hardware you use. All they care about is the end result.
Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.
Are we just talking about Final Cut Pro here? Theres a pretty short list of applications that don’t work on linux or windows well.
Do you just mean its easier to get a job if you have a Mac?
The latter, yes. If you go to a meeting and don’t have a MBP, they’re going to think you don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And if you have a MBP for remote work, you might as well have an iMac or a Mac Pro to do work with at home too.
I’m out of the industry now and my MBP died, so I’m running Mint on a Thinkpad. And when this iMac dies, I’ll probably do something similar.
But if you are in the industry and show up to a meeting with a Thinkpad (or any other non-Mac), they’re often going to think you’re an amateur.
Is it fair? No. But them’s the breaks.
Let me introduce you to a little thing called media production workflow, where there are over 500 different file formats in active use, and getting it right forms the basis of most links in a chain hundreds of links long.
You start sending me botched files with the wrong codecs and see if I don’t find another subcontractor immediately.
So you’re getting botched files and that is the fault of the operating system? 🤔
Maybe. You think I’m getting ProRes RAW files from your Win11/Premiere rig? Fired.