Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, here's a guy who moved from Mac to Windows and expects the whole industry to go that way. A prominent photographer: "You want fast, and I mean *FAST*, great value, user upgradable, very stable high quality computing? Get a fully loaded PC running Windows 7...get two or three! I'm not a Windows fanboy, we run 3 PC's and two Macs, but I've got to tell you, the PC's are the go-to machines here, and have been for some time. Photoshop used to be optimised for Mac, but no longer. If you're locked into a Mac way of thinking, this all evaporates once you're in the Adobe ecosystem, as it's for the most part identical. Just a couple of keyboard differences which are quick to learn or can be worked around easily with a little freeware utility called Key Tweak which enables you to remap your keyboard. (PC only). I use the brilliant Apple keyboards on my PC's and use Key Tweak to remap the Alt and Windows keys. FWIW one tangible advantage of Adobe Cloud is the ability to deregister a program on a Mac, then load and register on your PC (or vice versa) Apple does seem to be losing the plot. I expect we'll be fully PC within a year or so." I'm not interested in a debate either. I just want the best machine for what I do. Tina On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:37 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > > > But why would you buy a Mac to run Windows software? Does that make > sense? > > I know the two are getting closer together all the time but there is > still > > a fundamental difference the actual involvement of the user with the > > program. I don't want to let the machine control me. I want to control > > the machine. That has been the difference I've seen between Mac and PC. > > Besides, Bill Gates has totally redeemed himself with his charitable > works > > all over the world. I'm not sure what Jobs ever did for the world? > > Those that I've known do it because they've needed 1 - 3 pieces of > software that were windows only; > though much preferred everything else to be MAC - most especially the main > OS - for all its positives. > > Those people I've known who've moved from Windows to MAC - have never > regretted the move. > Most especially the photographers, graphic designers and video folks. > > I have no interest in a MAC vs. Windows debate here. > Matters not at all to me what equipment people use to do what they do. > Simply trying to answer the questions; > based on my personal knowledge of working people I've known. > > I've never met a person who moved from MAC to Windows. > I've met a whole lot of people who moved from Windows to MAC. > > In the world of video editing > people have moved from MAC to Avid (and other editing systems) then back > to MAC. > I'm not sure what the video editing system of choice is at the moment; > I've sort of dropped out of that game. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com