If you're a graphic designer, you need a powerful and intuitive computer to help you bring your ideas to life. Although PCs are prevalent in the market for most other digital purposes, professional designers usually prefer Apple® products by a wide margin. If you're interested in design even as a hobby, here's why you should consider buying a new or used MacBook® or iMac®.

Why Is a Mac® Computer Superior for Design Work?

1. Photoshop® Was Designed on a Mac

Adobe® Photoshop is a raster graphics editor that has set the worldwide standard for software photo editing and digital art since its creation in 1988. Its developers, brothers Thomas and John Knoll, chose a Macintosh computer on which to create their platform because it was the only desktop computer with a color display and enough processing power to run the software they envisioned. 

Photoshop was initially released solely for Apple. Windows® users had to wait more than two years for similar functionality. Nevertheless, because Macintosh is in its DNA, Photoshop still runs more smoothly and seamlessly on Mac computers.

2. Compatible Hardware & Software

Designers love the fact that Apple optimizes the hardware and software components of its computers to work together. Microsoft®, on the other hand, merely licenses its software for use to third-party hardware manufacturers. Apple computers are therefore able to provide a fast, intuitive, efficient experience and a seamlessness that Microsoft and its bevy of manufacturers can't emulate.

3. Tradition

For many years, Apple manufactured not just the best tools for graphics design, image editing, and video production but also the only tools. Therefore, design houses gravitated toward Apple products by necessity. Designers gained familiarity—even expertise—with these products, so they became the recognized tools of the trade, even after comparable design tools for Windows emerged. Today, if you seek work in an existing graphics design house, you'll be expected to have ample experience running a MacBook or iMac computer.

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