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Its more that the whole operating system was better for creative tasks, from font management to color management, as you touch upon, then the software started b
by timc3 4y ago
Its more that the whole operating system was better for creative tasks, from font management to color management, as you touch upon, then the software started building on that.
The Studio XDR display is not a replacement for a reference monitor and Apple ended up back pedalling on claiming it was. I don't know why you think what it looks like matters, or the size as they are a professional tools.
I used Photoshop on Irix running on an SGI, and the SGI back in the day was way more powerful than anything Apple produced for serious tasks (not sure it was a better Photoshop machine though).
- plufz 4y agoI don’t work at any big studio but as a long time designer I would say that creatives (generalizing here) care deeply about the aesthetics of everything around them. If I was going to build a studio to attract good creatives I would definitely pay for having aesthetic monitors (they would of course also need to function for the purpose).
- bostik 4y agoThe SGI Indigo ("Indy") workstations looked gorgeous back in their time. Our university had an entire computer class kitted out with them, and out-of-hours access was meted out ... sparingly. AFAIK the class was mostly used for computer graphics courses. For OpenGL stuff written in C, they were quite beasts. For everything else, it was still Irix. Of course, when the room was used in the evenings, it was mostly for bzflag LAN melees.