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I'm a PC user but I want to buy a Mac how's it going guys is John Q here from TechnoBuffalo let me start off by saying that I'm not an Apple fanboy but you can label me one if you want to goodness knows I've been labeled one for simply using an Apple keyboard like the guy you see back there what can I say people like to label things as a user I think Mac OS just seems to suit my needs better but I recommend everyone out there to not brand yourself to any particular company or product because those who do generally become a little bit closed-minded have you ever met anyone who swore their life to any particular brand or product like say the iPhone and if you were to ask them what don't you like about the iPhone they'd go all like hi they're gonna offend it and give you the look of death yeah not very happy campers mmm-hmm I use my computer primarily for work and sometimes play when I have the time I work with as you guys probably would have guessed with video as well as graphics and it just so happens Mac OS seems to excel in both of those categories and I don't know if it's a coincidence or not the Mac's seem to be industry standard for both video and graphics I recently purchased a MacBook Pro maybe about two or three weeks ago I don't have her with me right now I lent it to my girlfriend but I did play with it for maybe about 1 or 2 days and that was enough to convince me that Mac's they were the way to go one main reason is Mac's are pretty and I know what you're thinking man that's a stupid reason let me explain not only is the Hardware drop-dead gorgeous but the software the OS is equally as gorgeous if not more so and as a graphics person you kind of appreciate things like glossy icons and you know where they animate and jump up and down it's really cute another designer graphic factor would be fonts Mac's just happened to render fonts beautifully and I know it's a really small thing but I like typography and where people get excited over snapdragons and dual-core processors and whatnot I get excited over pretty fonts even with the new implementation of ClearType for Windows 7 and Windows Vista fonts still don't look as pretty as I do on the Mac I don't think pretty is the right word plus pretty doesn't sound very manly I'm gonna replace pretty with right fonts just don't look right on the PC compared to the max there we go if you want to get more and with fonts here one of the default fonts on Mac OS is Helvetica arguably the king of all fonts where's Windows has the slightly less fancy Arial as a Windows user you can acquire Helvetica no problem why am i complaining but if you want to get it legally the entire font family costs around I think $300 I'll stick to Arial right now I have until I get the Mac thank you I'm cheap that way on to the serious stuff these Darius work stuff these serious video stuff mac OS has final cut and final cutting will only run on Mac OS legally and as a video person that's enough said right there final cut has become the primary video editor of choice for many amateur and professional video makers and this includes mr. John 4-leggers himself on TechnoBuffalo as well as Matt from Matt's Macintosh also from TechnoBuffalo he makes great videos that guy he knows what he's doing props to Matt BAM right there another huge advantage of Final Cut studio would be color color is a super advanced color grading program so advanced it's borderline magical color was known in the industry as final touch and I was bought by Apple in 2006 or 2006 I like saying 2006 I don't know why final touch is color corrective software that used to retail for Believe It or Not fifteen to twenty thousand dollars but now if you get final cut studio you get color for free mm-hmm as for graphics I use the Adobe stuff and you always hear things like programs just run better on Macs or Macs are built for graphics personally I haven't really noticed a huge difference but if you do a quick Google search you would see that some people have I'm for me something I've been missing out from windows would be PC games but thankfully I don't play too many games and the titles that I do play such as left 4 dead 2 and Team Fortress 2 are now available on the Mac plus if you're running a Mac and you ever miss windows you can always run something called parallel to run Windows on your Mac talk about versatility one is huge drawback on the Macs and pretty much anything Apple would be the price do I think it's a ripoff hell yes I do but I guess you get what you pay for right and as I've learned over the years it's not the specs that count is the utilization of the specs that counts and Apple they seem to do it just fine and dandy so to wrap things up I am NOT a computer geek a heavy gamer or one to overclock things I like the playing simple elegant and beautiful I work with videos and graphics and appreciate little things like color and fonts are max perfect no but at the same time nothing really is it just works best for me and that's how I recommend you people approach purchasing and using things especially if you're handing over your hard-earned cash to a company that probably doesn't care too much about you but they care enough to want to know everything about you this is John Q from TechnoBuffalo and I'm a PC but I'll be a Mac soon enough see you guys in the next video