tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post3351739610229600543..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Happy Birthday to my iMacUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-76614441698125212842011-03-14T08:40:38.827+00:002011-03-14T08:40:38.827+00:00Your journey into buying a mac coincided with mine...Your journey into buying a mac coincided with mine. We bought it pretty much at the same time. I still love mine. I am almost getting used to it and take it for granted. The monitor is brilliant. Love it.<br />Since buying my mac, I have converted my brother, my dad and soon my husband too....its spreading....scary.Sophiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10305269093118541197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-44051591802525707322011-03-11T19:26:10.934+00:002011-03-11T19:26:10.934+00:00Oh well in that case Clive let's have a bonfir...Oh well in that case Clive let's have a bonfire!<br /><br />Go on - treat yourself to a new mac - you know you want one really! ;)Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-29121905841205630822011-03-11T19:10:13.615+00:002011-03-11T19:10:13.615+00:00Points taken. But Katherine, you'd think twice...Points taken. But Katherine, you'd think twice about burying it when you realized how big a hole would be required to bury both the computer and the monitor...<br /><br />Enjoyed this post and am overwhelmed with the shear quantity of other interesting posts here, as usual.<br /><br />cheers, C.Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157933440777720220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-64463927808091161752011-03-11T18:51:00.726+00:002011-03-11T18:51:00.726+00:00Clive - first I agree with everything you say abou...Clive - first I agree with everything you say about advertising and the effectiveness of word of mouth campaigns. I guess every major corporate needs to keep up with the big boys and needs to invest in persuasive ways which go beyond conventional advertising. Twas ever thus - they've been sponsoring stuff for years!<br /><br />But when you're the second largest company in the world......?<br />(see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/apple_number_two/ )<br /><br />However if you look back through the blog posts which led up to my purchase you'll see that I was a far from committed Apple purchaser at the beginning. Far from it - I had a 20+ year history of using PCs.<br /><br />However with the advent of the latest Windows programs and competitive price-cutting the PC manufacturers started to cut costs and construct duff machines. If you bought a new machine now running the latest Microsoft everything you may well be in the ranks of those of us who started complaining when no PC lasted longer than 12 months.<br /><br />I'm amazed at how you've kept a PC running for 15 years. Unless you ripped out the motherboard and started again from scratch I can't see how you can possibly be running the latest software and its voracious appetite for burning out PCs which have not been built intelligently.<br /><br />I fell for a product by a company which builds both the hardware and the software and makes sure it's a good match (or withdraws the product from the market until it is)<br /><br />I fell for a product which had a small army of people lining up to tell me about how their Apples went on and on and on......<br /><br />I don't know anybody else who uses a computer like I do who's still operating on one which is 15 years old. <br /><br />I bet if I came and used yours you'd be burying it within the week! ;)Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-60242792424236451592011-03-11T18:15:23.431+00:002011-03-11T18:15:23.431+00:00Hmmm, actually, I'm not sure my perspective is...Hmmm, actually, I'm not sure my perspective is unconventional. Artsy types are very fashion and trend conscious and therefore open to suggestion. Katherine mentioned 'seductive' as a quality for the Macs. Another commentator mentioned that she was buying 'word of mouth'. As the Globe article points out, Apple has vast cash resources for promotion. It's overt advertising seems modest to me. A lot of their vast cash allocated for promotion goes to very pleasantly paying for junkets for tech writers. You can be sure that some of it also goes to placing product in the hands of influential people. Malcolm Gladwell, in some of his books, touches on this sort of thing if I recall correctly. As well you can be sure that they are cleverly starting 'word of mouth' campaigns on the internet through blogs and social media. You have a very influential blog, Katherine, don't be surprised to have them approach you very pleasantly some day. (If you decline to promote them, send them my way and maybe I'll replace this 15 year old computer at their expense.) <br /><br />For several years in the eighties I sold a painting annually to a doctor who organized a whitewater canoeing weekend for other doctors. My painting was one of many door prizes and give aways. The whole thing was paid for by drug companies. The participants very pleasantly had their objectivity about drug products raped and pillaged while having a pleasant weekend canoeing and being wined and dined.<br /><br />I'm fascinated by advertising; some of the brightest minds at my art school went into to advertising and film, leaving us other neanderthals to a life of painting pictures to hang above sofas. If you'd like a link to a great program on advertising on the CBC paste the link below into your browser. The program, now in it's 5th season, is put together by adman Terry O'Reilly and is called The Age of Persuasion. It's astounding how cunningly things...such as low budget high success movies...have been marketed. Word of mouth campaigns are often very cleverly initiated.<br /><br />http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?17#ref17<br /><br />There are lots of free podcasts at the above; Age of Persuasion should be right at the top.<br /><br />Anyway, it's always a big help when a cunningly marketed product is also reliable and has high consumer satisfaction ratings...and it seems your poll of consumers suggests that the Mac is just that. Still, I wonder if I can get 20 years out of my PC? Ooops, the pressure gauge is dropping and it's time to shovel more coal in the boiler...Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157933440777720220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-63797525408087978642011-03-10T23:40:03.845+00:002011-03-10T23:40:03.845+00:00Well - it's a different perspective - that'...Well - it's a different perspective - that's for certain! :)Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-62985449210692348452011-03-10T22:53:36.871+00:002011-03-10T22:53:36.871+00:00I bought my first computer, a PC, 15 years ago and...I bought my first computer, a PC, 15 years ago and still use it to do digital commercial work, with the same trinitron rip off monitor. It does the job. I saved a lot of money at the time by not buying Mac and am saving a bundle by keeping shovelling coal into it's old boiler. When there has occasionally been a problem or need to upgrade; new hard drives, video cards, OS; there have always been locals to fix it quickly, easily and cheaply.<br /><br />It might be that, should I decide to buy a new computer, I'd choose a Mac, consider it a superior product, and lament 15 years or more working with an inferior product. Might. But like comment-er 'artists work' I'm totally creeped out by the quasi religious reverence for what is just a consumer product/tool, and the slick advertising/branding/imaging monolith that is Apple. <br /><br />There is a great article by a Globe and Mail tech writer on Apple's 'well oiled machine' here:<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/all-hail-apples-remarkable-machine-and-were-not-talking-about-ipad-2/article1933337/<br /><br />Artists are an odd lot. In my first year at art college I had 8 highly accomplished instructors most of whom more or less held each others line of work in contempt. Most were ideologues; it was like being taught by priests or imams; religious nutters; they were all so absolutely certain about what was art, what was good, bad, what was 'crap'. I could never be so certain.<br /><br />I take Katherine's item as an enthusiastic review. <br /><br />But artsy-design-y-knobs I know and have known, like my old instructors, kind of creep me out with their utter certainty about what is art, what is good, what is bad. It's like religion. I could never be so certain about life after death or visual art, let alone a consumer product. Maybe it's because Apple has become the darling of artsy types that there is so much reverential-ism toward the products. Impression-ism...post impression-ism...modern-ism...post modern-ism...Apple-ism...Clivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03157933440777720220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-88342158927731317442011-03-09T17:05:35.290+00:002011-03-09T17:05:35.290+00:00Me too - I have had an iMac since 2008 and now hav...Me too - I have had an iMac since 2008 and now have an iPod too, for music! (I use the iPod in another room). Great how the two link up, and now I'm saving up for an iPad to put images of my paintings - keeps you very busy reading all the fancy things you should be doing with the technology, though. Stops you getting on with the painting!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187781190046277408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-1654641324409873632011-03-08T16:56:46.722+00:002011-03-08T16:56:46.722+00:00Happy birthday to your iMac from my iMac. My prev...Happy birthday to your iMac from my iMac. My previous macs - I've been a user from Day 1 - have found homes with many friends and the last 4 are all still going strong!<br /><br />Each new Mac I get becomes my new love. If someone stole Artists Work's Mac it would probably flush out a bit of Mac Love :)Robyn Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01663604160297996421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-34781060991063298532011-03-08T15:41:48.201+00:002011-03-08T15:41:48.201+00:00Ah, yes! Next month will be the 1-year anniversar...Ah, yes! Next month will be the 1-year anniversary of my 21" iMac as well. It was a bit spendy, but so worth it, and I absolutely LOVE it! I discover more amazing features on it all the time. I remember when I discovered that iPhoto would happily accept my Nikon's RAW files and convert them to jpegs for viewing, editing and sending, but the original files remain forever. Or that it will read any device you plug into it and run it, even if it's not Apple. No special software required.<br /><br />After years of putting up with the crashes and virus problems and numerous shortcomings with PC's and the awful MS OS platforms, I am forever done with them and anything related to Microsoft.Sonya Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01879889885162011649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-30706956219214207932011-03-08T13:11:32.857+00:002011-03-08T13:11:32.857+00:00"Seductive" is the word that is missing ..."Seductive" is the word that is missing from Apple marketing<br /><br />It is brilliant though that you can make a product and sell it simply because everybody wants to tell all their friends how good it is!Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-7812720312454211542011-03-08T13:08:00.894+00:002011-03-08T13:08:00.894+00:00I love my Mac too! More than is appropriate lol!I love my Mac too! More than is appropriate lol!Eva Tomkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02100779065486643333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-4722289137206691862011-03-08T07:40:13.784+00:002011-03-08T07:40:13.784+00:00A mac might be only a tool but so is a really beau...A mac might be only a tool but so is a really beautifully made paintbrush, having recently spent a small fortune on one hand made watercolour brush I can honestly say it was worth every penny. Having also always had Macs until hitting a poverty pot hole two years ago and having to get a PC (which is wurring loudly and taking up lots of space beside me right now) I would much much much prefer a Mac. <br />So "Artists Work" of course its a tool, its a very good tool, you wouldnt use a cheap set of "watercolour" paints (the sort you get in a pound shop or a newsagents) or printer paper to paint a deacent painting would you? Well I know I wouldnt.<br />Happy Mac birthday Katherine.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14193935968877679533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-26932965788351041382011-03-08T07:35:55.919+00:002011-03-08T07:35:55.919+00:00@Artists Work I'm not using my iMac to make a...@Artists Work I'm not using my iMac to make art - although I hugely appreciate the quality of the image on my screen when looking at art. However my iMac is giving me relief from the hell that I was caught in with PCs that wouldn't work for more than a few months! <br /><br />I think possibly your lack of comprehension as to why I should write as I do comes in your last line! You won't understand Mac worship at all if you haven't been using PCs in recent years! ;)<br /><br />@everybody else - Isn't it great when you finally find something that WORKS! (and looks good too!)Making A Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13509483023337008890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-86067218361858915362011-03-08T07:26:53.771+00:002011-03-08T07:26:53.771+00:00what on earth are you on?
A mac is only a tool..i...what on earth are you on?<br /><br />A mac is only a tool..it depends what you do with it..<br />It has nothing whatsoever do with Art.<br /><br />Mac worship is a negative pastime.<br /><br />ps: I've been using macs since 1994...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-38686556723261838122011-03-08T05:02:19.370+00:002011-03-08T05:02:19.370+00:00I am also a recent (1 year) convert after years of...I am also a recent (1 year) convert after years of owning PC's and even teaching classes for PC software. I just got tired of the constant updates, bugs, etc. and decided to make the plunge. Haven't looked back and probably will never buy another PC. I'm envious of your iMac with the 27" screen--congratulations and Happy BD!TXSCKBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068282158451064285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-90233495117731587482011-03-08T03:53:24.423+00:002011-03-08T03:53:24.423+00:00I love mine too. I love the sharpness of the scree...I love mine too. I love the sharpness of the screen, the keyboard, the mouse and the sound it makes when I send an email! It makes me laugh every time.Carole Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03761259557061105360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-3844791141419108182011-03-08T02:54:42.318+00:002011-03-08T02:54:42.318+00:00I will be 1 year this month with my iMac and am wi...I will be 1 year this month with my iMac and am with you 100%, I would not go back to a PC.Maria's Watercolorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13933010858201618312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-24109463160526998602011-03-08T02:29:04.392+00:002011-03-08T02:29:04.392+00:00I heard that last year a million pc users switched...I heard that last year a million pc users switched to a Mac. I guess that makes you one in a million! Honestly, having worked with both platforms, Mac and Windows I cant figure out why anyone would chose the latter. Enjoy the freedom from viruses, the beautiful interface design, and the technical support. Happy Birthday, iMac!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-15894395608265321702011-03-08T01:46:45.944+00:002011-03-08T01:46:45.944+00:00Katherine. I've been using the 27" iMac a...Katherine. I've been using the 27" iMac at work for a couple of months now and love it. I want one for my home. Congrats.Billy Guffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15630378626972553684noreply@blogger.com