• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

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            3 months ago

            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.

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                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.

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                    3 months ago

                    Maybe. You think I’m getting ProRes RAW files from your Win11/Premiere rig? Fired.

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                Well you clearly know my industry better than I do, so I’ll defer to your expert knowledge.

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                  3 months ago

                  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?

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                    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.

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            No case, no board, no power supply, no OS. You don’t even give a machine you compare to.

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                It matters if you want to compare prices between complete functioning machines with comparable performance.

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                    3 months ago

                    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.

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              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.

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                  3 months ago

                  Give me a model to compare to? Are all apple models the same? Or do you mean just pick any of them?

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                    3 months ago

                    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.

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                    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.