Prevalence of Macs

MooseJam

Every time you see a shot of coaching staff in the stands with a laptop its a Mac, always without fail it's a mac, I wonder why that is ?

wixfjord

I noticed Wales used a video analyst this year for the first time former player I think. Used a mac aswell u might be on to something! What other teams have used it??

Crash

Could be something to do with certain software thats being used. Perhaps its to do with the direct feed from the broadcasters and certain programs?

Junior

crash_000 wrote: »

Could be something to do with certain software thats being used. Perhaps its to do with the direct feed from the broadcasters and certain programs?

The video analysis software they use is Mac based, I cant remember for the life of me the name of it now, I'll find out on Monday.

wingnut

A friend did video analysis with the Mac for the Ospreys and WRU. He showed me the software, its very cool.

toomevara

Obviously as a mac fanatic, its a no-brainer! ;)But most of the analysis software is available on both platforms as far as I know...

JWAD

MooseJam wrote: »

Every time you see a shot of coaching staff in the stands with a laptop its a Mac, always without fail it's a mac, I wonder why that is ?

Sponsorship

wixfjord

JWAD wrote: »

Sponsorship

But shur nobody would notice....oh wait

Junior

JWAD wrote: »

Sponsorship

Trust me lads it's not, I do the IT for one of the provinces...

Leon11

not clued in fully as to why but I imagine it's because the mac's are more media friendly in terms of running video software? I notice in college that all our audio visual students tend to use macs also. maybe Junior can tell us why?

edit* he already did!

Junior

And in a flashback in the shower after coming back from training the name came to me .... The software they use is called Sportscode

figs86

Junior wrote: »

And in a flashback in the shower after coming back from training the name came to me .... The software they use is called Sportscode

absolute legend, as a sports science student writing this on my mac, i was pretty interested as to what it might be

nice one!

Junior

No worries man, I know how they use it although I'm no expert on it. Luckily I don't have to support it yet, they have a support contract with the OEM Software crowd for that, but I do look after the Macs etc

chicoben

Macs are more stable at running software like that for some reason, and also alot of programmes aren't available on PC. Its the only thing macs are good for i think

heggie

running software is all they are good for? isnt that all they need to be good for?

chicoben

Well yeah........

dc69

The reason macs are used is that they handle video editing applications far better than windows based computers,it the way the operating system is designed.

Personaly I think its the only thing they are good for:)

Sangre

yeah, same reason they all have them in NCAD.

toomevara

hehe, who'd a thunk it, a mac vs pc piddling contest on the rugby forum...I done seen it all now....

Podge_irl

toomevara wrote: »

hehe, who'd a thunk it, a mac vs pc piddling contest on the rugby forum...I done seen it all now....

Yeah, well clearly Macs represent Leinster and PCs Munster (although I don't like Macs, but somehow putting them the other way round didn't sound right!).

tHE vAGGABOND

1) Apple give free mac's to anyone who may be on TV or who may give them publicity. Offically these mac's are on loan for tax reasons...I would assume at least some of their mac's would be on said loan. We got them at a previous job I had, and we 'forgot' to send them back and eventually sold them

2) I dont work in that industry, but *everyone* I know, personally, who works in graphics or video uses a mac. So I assume a mac is better with that kinda thing.

Diamondmaker

Podge_irl wrote: »

Yeah, well clearly Macs represent Leinster and PCs Munster (although I don't like Macs, but somehow putting them the other way round didn't sound right!).

Yeah Macs are way more suited to fancy, creative applications and looking treny but the PC is better to do the basic house hold budget.........

A computer post on the rugby forum, what next ? the softness of Leinster jersey material compared to Munster......:D

thehighground

Podge_irl wrote: »

Yeah, well clearly Macs represent Leinster and PCs Munster (although I don't like Macs, but somehow putting them the other way round didn't sound right!).

Fair play to the old Anti-Munster instinct coming out even though you reckoned Apple would represent Leinster. Apple's European HQ is in Cork and they have been making them down there for years and would be ten a penny!

Apple would be the market leader for graphics. Power is relatively easy now, but back 10 years ago PCs (with their 36/48 or whatever of RAM) wouldn't have been able to open a graphics file, let alone do anything with it. Applications like Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Xpress etc. were all developed first of all for the Mac (and still are fairly unstable on PCs). Other thing is that apple always had very good quality screens which would be very important.

As the owner of a Powerbook and an Apple Mini, I would never want to go back to a PC again, even if it would save me a few bob.

RuggieBear

i should probably ban all you apple fanboi's...:D

toomevara

thehighground wrote: »

As the owner of a Powerbook and an Apple Mini, I would never want to go back to a PC again, even if it would save me a few bob.

+1

mike dee

I personally think Macs represent Munster (solid, reliable and consistently perform, and in my opinion- a bit of passion) while PCs well are Leinster (can work really well, and then flake out, but somewhat lacking in real spark, however in the grahics arena they do excel). Now I know I won't be banned from this RuggieBear as I am only offering an opinion on the anthropomorphic association of Mac vs PC and certain rugby sides, this can hardly count as flaming. And If I am to be banned will it be as mac fanboy or a Munster supporter.

RuggieBear

i'll have to think about which to ban you for...

mike dee

+1 I switched to mac as vista was the straw that broke the camels back. I seem to be more productive on the mac. I suppose I am not worrying about viruses, spyware, bloatware etc.

mike dee

Just read the stuff about sportscode really interesting, a lot of Irish clients but surprisingly no GAA contracts.

Sangre

this forum needs a mac user mod to as its becoming way too biased.

dc69

mike dee wrote: »

Just read the stuff about sportscode really interesting, a lot of Irish clients but surprisingly no GAA contracts.

Very tru but im sure someone would have to be pretty good with the sportscode software,I doubt its easy to learn and with the GAA being non paid,I cant see an average joe doing it and I cant see someone who has experience doing it without being paid.

Crash

As a soon to be computer science graduate (oh four years, what have i done with my life) and having just sat an exam on computer vision, something like sportscode really interests me.

In fact, one of my questions today was on mapping information from a camera from a tennis game to a top down view of player location - wonder how possible it would be for a rugby match :P would be great in place of radio and live feeds.

Junior

dc69 wrote: »

Very tru but im sure someone would have to be pretty good with the sportscode software,I doubt its easy to learn and with the GAA being non paid,I cant see an average joe doing it and I cant see someone who has experience doing it without being paid.

From what I remember off the top of the head, the license costs around 15k

Pemba

There is some GAA software here. Not the same detail or match-tracking as Sportscode but its a great effort.