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Old February 7th, 2006, 04:57 PM
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pc vs mac webdesign wise!!!

what i wanna know is why has the pc been more significant in the line of work of web design? whys isnt the mac there as strong as on dtp?

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Old February 7th, 2006, 05:16 PM
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PCs are more significant in every line of work, simply because: a) they're perceived as "cheaper", b) people blindly use whatever is given to them, and c) they have 15 times the marketshare that Macs do.

If you prefer working on a Mac for web design, then by all means, work on a Mac. But for the time being, Macintosh marketshare is so low that Macs don't dominate any industry anymore. Even video editing is mostly done on high-end PCs or dedicated video editing machines that run an operating system other than Mac OS X.

The one industry where the Mac is still pretty prevalent is in the pre-press/printing industry, but if a survey was taken, I'd be willing to bet that there are more PCs than Macs doing that kind of stuff now.
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Old February 7th, 2006, 05:18 PM
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Is this actually the case in web development? All web development? I think it depends what you're coding for. Some people might use WIndows PCs if they're developing for Microsoft-based server environments, but there are other resources that allow you to use other operating system such as open source *nix or Mac OS X. Heck, the first web page was designed on a NeXT cube!
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Old February 7th, 2006, 11:10 PM
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Heck, the first web page was designed on a NeXT cube!
Huh? You might want to double-check that.
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the first peoper web-browser (not sure what that constitutes) was on NEXTSTEP.
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the first peoper web-browser (not sure what that constitutes) was on NEXTSTEP.
Hmm, if you're not sure what that constitutes, can you still make that claim? What source did you get this information from?
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Old February 8th, 2006, 09:40 AM
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You're right....excuse my ignorance. After doing some research, the NeXT cube was used in the creation of the WWW.
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i read it on a very deep NEXT website, but i can't remember the whereabouts. i think it was nixgeek or RacerX's links but i could be wrong again.
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