Mac vs. PC: a Designer’s Internal Struggle

But what you use doesn’t matter.

If you Google Mac vs. PC for design purposes, you would find about 18,000,000 results in 0.49 seconds (as of March 2018). This probably is one of the most debated topics in the field, so this is another post about it because why not?

The Google search for “mac vs pc design”

GUESS WHAT? IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU USE TO DESIGN!

Well, it does, but doesn’t, not really (don’t @ me!). To start your career as a designer, you don’t need an expensive Macbook Pro. To be a good designer (let alone great), you should be able to create your designs with any machine. Mac or Window is only a tool, design is about principles, about skills, about your judgement and decisions. Sure, tools help, but they are not the main thing that will make a good designer.

I started using Windows XP when I was in my teenage years, Mac wasn’t a thing in South East Asia then.

Nowadays, I use both MacOS and Windows for different purposes. PC for video making including editing and motion graphics, and various entertainment activities because it’s more economical and my Macbook for UX design because I like Sketch for this…