Qion
Uber Nothing
As of late, I've been forced to use PC's to do graphics work. Enough said.
I have some issues.
To say it in the least amount of words possible, I belive that PC's should not be in the design industry for reasons deeper than the programs they run.
Here's a (small) list of my issues:
1. PC's feel like toys. I don't know what it is, but the feel of the mouse is always bothering me. I feel like it's... twitchy. I go to click on a contexual menu, and my mouse flicks around like it's stopping for a couple milliseconds at each individual pixel. Now, the machine I've been working on is no toy. It's a fairly meaty 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 HT with 2GB of RAM and a 128MB graphics card. It should not feel like a toy when I'm working on it. Besides the mouse twitchiness, the overall feel of Windows itself is twitchy, er, jerky. Whatever. I move a window to another location, and instead of showing me the entire window moving, I get this weird little grey box so I have to guestimate to where exactly I'm dropping the window. There is no transparency to speak of, and I can't view more than 3 windows at once on one screen, due to the lack of something Exposé. The Windows taskbar is a joke, as if you have multiple applications/windows open, the text below becomes unreadable... it's just not there. The little application switcher dongle thing by the Start Menu is cute, allowing an entire plethora of three icons to reside in accessible view. That way, I can open Publisher, PowerPoint and Word at the same time!
2. Professional applications just don't feel professional. If I work in Photoshop, in Illustrator, in whatever you'd like, the interface makes me feel like I'm in Photoshop 4 on my grape iMac again. Sure, the functionality is all there, but the feel of it all is just not conducive to creativity. I'm strangely more inclined to start adding Autoshapes and Word Art into my layouts when I'm working on Windows... it's almost as if the cheesiness of the OS somehow slides it's way into my workflow. I want to hit the monitor with the keyboard even at the smallest mistake, such as putting in the wrong dimensions, because Windows itself just irks me to that point.
Am I the only one that feels as if Windows actually sucks the creative drive from we artists? What does the rest of the creative realm of macosx.com say?
I have some issues.
To say it in the least amount of words possible, I belive that PC's should not be in the design industry for reasons deeper than the programs they run.
Here's a (small) list of my issues:
1. PC's feel like toys. I don't know what it is, but the feel of the mouse is always bothering me. I feel like it's... twitchy. I go to click on a contexual menu, and my mouse flicks around like it's stopping for a couple milliseconds at each individual pixel. Now, the machine I've been working on is no toy. It's a fairly meaty 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 HT with 2GB of RAM and a 128MB graphics card. It should not feel like a toy when I'm working on it. Besides the mouse twitchiness, the overall feel of Windows itself is twitchy, er, jerky. Whatever. I move a window to another location, and instead of showing me the entire window moving, I get this weird little grey box so I have to guestimate to where exactly I'm dropping the window. There is no transparency to speak of, and I can't view more than 3 windows at once on one screen, due to the lack of something Exposé. The Windows taskbar is a joke, as if you have multiple applications/windows open, the text below becomes unreadable... it's just not there. The little application switcher dongle thing by the Start Menu is cute, allowing an entire plethora of three icons to reside in accessible view. That way, I can open Publisher, PowerPoint and Word at the same time!
2. Professional applications just don't feel professional. If I work in Photoshop, in Illustrator, in whatever you'd like, the interface makes me feel like I'm in Photoshop 4 on my grape iMac again. Sure, the functionality is all there, but the feel of it all is just not conducive to creativity. I'm strangely more inclined to start adding Autoshapes and Word Art into my layouts when I'm working on Windows... it's almost as if the cheesiness of the OS somehow slides it's way into my workflow. I want to hit the monitor with the keyboard even at the smallest mistake, such as putting in the wrong dimensions, because Windows itself just irks me to that point.
Am I the only one that feels as if Windows actually sucks the creative drive from we artists? What does the rest of the creative realm of macosx.com say?
