Mac vs PC

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by Damien

Apple programmers can use Cocoa which gives the programs a lot of the native features of Mac OSX. So it could not be identical.

Of course it could be identical. It may have to use different methods to do something, which may or may not make it slower.

Originally Posted by Damien

The big programs are not in Cocoa it should be said, and Photoshop is almost the same. The ease of use comes from the OS and not the program in those cases (expose being useful for dealing with a lot of images). The way Mac handles images does mean its is usually snappier and a tad more stable though.

I still don't understand how the ease of use comes from the OS. The OS may have some funky special features, but that's beside the point.

Oh look! ANOTHER resurrected Mac versus PC thread.

Only it's really a my todgers bigger'n yours thread.

Give it up..accept that there is no common ground on which you agree and move on.Life is too short and boring as it is..

[Cobbydaler]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh look! ANOTHER resurrected Mac versus PC thread.

Only it's really a my todgers bigger'n yours thread.

Give it up..accept that there is no common ground on which you agree and move on.Life is too short and boring as it is..

Told you it'd keep them occupied & out of mischief...

[AntiSilence]

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh look! ANOTHER resurrected Mac versus PC thread.

Only it's really a my todgers bigger'n yours thread.

If yours were bigger than mine I'd be worried about you!

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Give it up..accept that there is no common ground on which you agree and move on.Life is too short and boring as it is..

Give it up??? NEVER!! See, we're making life more interesting by arguing!

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

Told you it'd keep them occupied & out of mischief...

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LOL

AntiSilence If yours were bigger than mine I'd be worried about you!

No but then I don't care about this issue anyway..I'm of the mind that life is too short to worry about whether my body or my PC measures up because neither of them do and never will.

Give it up??? NEVER!! See, we're making life more tedious by arguing!

Oh the power of red ink...

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by AntiSilence

But that's all down to how the software has been programmed. It doesn't have anything to do with the computer its running on. If Final Cut Pro was programmed for the PC with the exact same features, menus and options, how could it be any less easy to use?

The nearest FCP got (and is ever likely to get) to being released on the PC was that Media 100 (the company Apple bought Final Cut Pro from) devloped a high-end video editing system called 844/X, based around a similar interface to FCP. In use it was very similar (although 844/X relied on a £25,000 processing box and performed most operations in real time).

Actually, what you say is true. The interface is down to how the software is coded, and there is no real reason why someone could not replicate a mac user interface using windows system calls.

However, Apple DO seem to make more of an effort to enforce their own User Interface Guidelines (Microsoft not only don't enforce them, they don't always follow their own guidlines).