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"I don't actually mind Macs. I just find the fandom illogical and annoying"
i agree they are tools (they just happen to look good too).
but in the industry i work in there is a historical association with macs that i can't see going away unless their product goes rapidly downhill. in the 'early days' you couldn't allocate more than 75% of ram to photoshop but you could on a mac, there were also differences in the way they used look up tables in real time to change colour on the monitor meaning you could make subtle colour corrections in real time and see the results instantly (even though the computer was tweaking the monitor to look like you were making a correction but then do the proccessing intensive correction later after you hit the o.k button). these differences are irrelevant now though. also a lot of the capture software for the digital backs i use was only available in osx not pc or the pc versions were an afterthought and really buggy.
things may be different now but firewire on pc laptops was 4 pin not 6pin so they couldn't power the digital backs when tethered either.
as for the monitor issue i'm not talking about running 2 monitors i'm talking about running them with an individual calibration for each one
"1 PC's behave somewhat differently from Macs. In the case of a PC, the computer will need to have an individual video card for EACH monitor. This is due to the fact that (most) PC video cards do not have dual look-up-tables (LUTs). Most Mac hardware provides this capability by default."
the thing is david you know pc's inside out (more than i know macs) and neither of us would swap because if we did we would be worse off, your 'fandom' is no different than mine.
the evangelism that comes from non power users is a bit odd though.