Switching to Macbook. Your thoughts please.

[wattsr]

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A MacBook will be much faster than any windows machine when it comes to photo processing, the only down side will be the price difference. If you intend to use the machine with your camera then you should notice a difference in the way the machine handles downloads from the camera using the built in iPhoto software. Once you get one you won't go back.

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[urs0polar]

A MacBook will be much faster than any windows machine when it comes to photo processing, the only down side will be the price difference. If you intend to use the machine with your camera then you should notice a difference in the way the machine handles downloads from the camera using the built in iPhoto software. Once you get one you won't go back.

 

Though I only have Macs at home and I love them, it's not technically true that they will be much faster than any Windows machine, especially for advanced photoshop stuff. The Mac Pro is out of date hardware-wise compared to modern PC offerings ... sad, but true. There is no Mac solution that can do a 10-bit workflow either (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3600350?start=0&tstart=0).

 

Apple is starting to scare a lot of people with their disregard for the high-end media market in favor of iOS and making things nice for grandma. You and I may not care, but all those ad agencies and graphics design houses and architecture offices and recording studios and editing houses aren't going to hang around much longer I would imagine.

 

That said, it is still a much nicer experience IMO than Windows, especially with Unix underneath, and I'll stick with it for now, hoping the next release will be less Launchpad and more ZFS.

 

(Of course, if you are using iPhoto, then yeah the mac will be much nicer than anything PC for ease-of-use -- but not faster)