The IT dept in my work
are installing the computer systems for some of the buildings at Media City in Salford. Last year me and a few other techs sat in horror and disbelief during a meeting as we watched their presentation for running the building on the Win XP OS.

When asked why they were installing PC's when all the clients will be using FCP Studio, they responded:

"PC's are much more reliable and greener for the environment, they use less power. And lets face it, Windows XP is much more stable now compared to OS X, it's been out longer"

We pointed out once again the use of Final Cut and Pro tools etc and the response we got was:

"Yeah we've thought of that, were going to install it on Windows"

I could hear the blood pressure in my colleagues brains pop a few blood vessels that day.
( Bamboo Steamer, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:15, 16 replies)

I have no idea why any of this is wrong

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:26, closed)

It's
magnificently geeky sounding, isn't it?

My Mac isn't green either. It's grey. I cut my own hair.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:40, closed)

I don't know what any of that means.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:45, closed)

Win XP is shit and over 10 years old
Apple Final Cut Studio only runs on Apple Mac's, as does Pro Tools.

You cannot install Final Cut Studio on a Windows machine. It's like trying to play a cassette in a CD Player.

The general point is the people running the show haven't done even the most basic of research.
( Bamboo Steamer, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:51, closed)

i work at the bbc.
please make them give us macs.

PLEASE.

our department had to buy our own macbook pro to run FCP on and now Semens get angry with us every time we want to do something to it.
(corruptia, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:40, closed)

Apple is just wrong
on every level for business use.

But I suspect it's more likely becuase they don't want to have the place infested with skinny jeans wearing, rimmless specced soya latte sipping hipster twats.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:59, closed)

You clearly don't work in a video editing environment

( Sonic the Hedgetrimmer doesn't care what you think, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:02, closed)

No, but
I know what video editing is, and I know what FCP is, and I know the difference between a Mac and a PC.

What was your point again?
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:07, closed)

i don't have skinny jeans
:(
(corruptia, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:14, closed)

Hmm.
I bet you like tofu and organic wine from a small vineyard in South Africa that we've probably never heard of though.

Actually, I'm not sure hipsters are really into Macs any more. They're so like, mainstream now. They use 1994 IBM thinkpad Pentium II's running Umbongo feisty marmoset Linux.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:22, closed)

_{The PII was introduced in '97}
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:21, closed)

You clearly don't work in a publishing company either
as publishers have used Macs since 198x and continue to do so...
(ChaRleyTroniC is invincible with his chips and cheese, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:41, closed)

I do...
...and I still think Macs are shit. Shouldn't you be marvelling at the new i-pad and its amazing ability to do nothing in a really shiny way?
(sparagus14, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:03, closed)

but all those publishing apps are availbale on PC , and have been since the 90s?

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 15:08, closed)

it's the stability of PC's which is the problem
We run programs like AVID and Adobe CS5 suite on both Mac and PC's. I never have any trouble with the OS X installations.

The PC ones crash repeatedly, but to be fair these are IT specified machines and contain the cheapest of the cheap shitty hardware.
( Bamboo Steamer, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 16:18, closed)

I can't believe they leave IT decisions to the IT department.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 16:26, closed)