Digital BW, The Print

> > If you think you might ever become interested in doing digital
> > video, you might want to consider that the Mac is widely
> > acknowledged to be head and shoulders above Wintel in this
> > department.
>
> Obviously words spoken by somebody that has never tried video
> editing on Wintel system and only spouts Apple propaganda read in
> the magazine ads.

Maybe 10 years ago the above statement would have been true. Avid systems
were considered top-of-the-line, and they only ran on Macs. Now Avid sells
into both platforms. Matrox makes some pretty interesting video editing
systems, and as far as I know, they only run on PC's. I don't think the
platform is a factor in video editing; you choose your software, then buy
the hardware to run it.

> 10% market share with almost half of that coming from free
> gradeschool installed machines speaks volumes.  Need anyone say
> more? The general public has already spoken and voted with their
> dollars. The Apple groupies can yell foul all they want but the truth
> remains, a measly 10%?

Apple's market share hit it's peak a few years back when Apple licensed the
operating system to other manufacturers, such as Radius, Power PC, and
Motorola. It was around 15% or so, and rising. I believe their market share
today is only around 3-5% and dropping.