Anyone here use a Mac for a living?

[fatcatdj]

I noticed alot of Mac affectionados here, mostly high school and college students and users at home, but for out of school professionals:

1. How many here earn 100% of their paycheck (if they have a fulltime job) from using a Mac OsX operating system.

2. What program do you primarily use (excluding Word & Excel)

3. Is this a single Mac or a series of Macs networked (more than 5) outfitted at your office.


Just wondering because I work with Macs (for a living) and 98% of my friends use PC's at their offices.

[Cake]

I use Pro Tools as an audio engineer working on projects for Film,TV,DVD and Blu-ray.
In the Sound Department, we probably have a 75 Macs used for day-to-day production, a number of Xserves and a couple Xserve RAIDs (most of our 23TB of storage is non-Apple).

[BRussell]

I don't do much computer work per se for my job, but I have a Mac in my orifice that I use for email, word processing, and other basic office stuff. It's hooked up with several hundred other computers, probably 75% PC and 25% Mac. And I have a small computer lab (5 old iMacs) I use to run experiments. I create the programs for the lab in Realbasic. I also extensively use statistics software - SPSS and lately, R. I use keynote to create presentations.

[fatcatdj]

I use Pro Tools as an audio engineer working on projects for Film,TV,DVD and Blu-ray.
In the Sound Department, we probably have a 75 Macs used for day-to-day production, a number of Xserves and a couple Xserve RAIDs (most of our 23TB of storage is non-Apple).

right on Cake...I dont feel alone here.
I heard the Apple and Avid dispute ended up
Avid going PC on most of their new programs (Apple apparently pushed FCP too hard)
know anything about that? I will be at NABET this spring, you going?:smokey:

[MajorMatt]

I use Realbasic to make 100% of all my money, I'm a college student so I dont exactly live on it.

[midwinter]

My dock at home. Dock at work is probably not much different.

http://images.littlemeanfish.com/dock.png

[midwinter]

i never got into omni outliner for some reason.

It is essential.

[running with scissors]

As a graphic designer and web developer, my job revolves around photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver, flash, fireworks, xpad, transmit, cssedit, firefox, free ruler, acrobat professional, quark (yes i still have to use it from time to time), and indesign.

[Kickaha]

Software engineering researcher, use exclusively MacOS X. The Unix underbelly and the solid and stellar GUI apps make it a no brainer for me. It's fun tweaking people's brains though. "Oh, you're using a Mac... artist?" "No, CS researcher." "But... I thought Macs were only for artists?" "Nope." "Oh, well, you'll change eventually I guess." "Well, it's gotten me through my doctorate just fine..." ".... oh."

TeXShop, TextMate, BibDesk (<3), OmniOutliner/Graffle, and Terminal are my Most Common Apps, in addition to the usual suspects.

[Powerdoc]

I use 3 macs in my office, for my job (surgeon)
I use a patient file and comptability system.
It's not 100 % of my living. But it's impossible today to work without computers

[dmz]

All the typical print publishing stuff Adobe CS2, Quark, etc. One PPC and one Intel mac at my desk (and one PC - although with Parallels it's getting a lot less use).

[Marvin]

Software engineering researcher, use exclusively MacOS X. The Unix underbelly and the solid and stellar GUI apps make it a no brainer for me. It's fun tweaking people's brains though. "Oh, you're using a Mac... artist?" "No, CS researcher." "But... I thought Macs were only for artists?" "Nope." "Oh, well, you'll change eventually I guess." "Well, it's gotten me through my doctorate just fine..." ".... oh."

:lol: There's a Get a Mac ad right there. I can see it now, PC guy criticizing the Mac guy for listening to emo and blogging and then he turns up in his robes.

When I was at uni, most of the professors there were on either Linux or Mac OS X too. I don't know why people get the perception it's just a toy when they use a system that has a wacky cartoon dog that appears when you search for stuff and a paperclip when you need help:

http://img153.echo.cx/img153/6826/image19ib.gif
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-100