As to Macs being film industry standard,.........maybe be at some shops but a fair number of places use PC's,......like HP Xeon workstations or servers for rendering farms. For content creation and developement some people feel Mac's are superior,.......at one time this may have been true, now however it's more a matter of what you grew up with(so to speak) and personal preference, and dare I say it, digital snobbery(not meant in a truly bad way), rather than any actual performance edge. In the past 5 years on PC's(using Win 2000 and XP Pro) I've never had a serious system crash or BSOD,......yet I have managed to freeze up a Mac on 2 different occasions. Just pure luck I guess.

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