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fhoto

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Hey, I'm new to this forum and I'll do my best not turning this thread into another "should I buy now or wait discussion", eventhough I guess that's what it all comes down to in the end anyway :p

I'm a photographer and need a laptop bad. I currently have a stationary stone age PC wich catches fire after half an hour of photoshopping.
Now, I've been checking out the powerbooks for quite a while and basically been waiting since last april that they'll transform these "state-of-the-art" machines into something that's actually close to the current state-of-the-art. As of today, I could buy a pb and probably get along fine, but they'll have to cut the price with about 30% first to get it down to a reasonable you-get-what-you-pay-for level. I'd probably spend the next months trying to get over the idea of being fooled into investing in last years technology anyway, but it'll probably do fine.

Problem being, they ain't cutting their ridiculous prices. And as if that wasn't enough, you're all telling me that it'll most likely take another 6 months until they'll bother to upgrade their hardware. And when they finally do, they'll release some first-gen trial machine wich obviously is going to be plagued by first-gen issues, right?
So this is what it all boils down to: since apple has set them and their pb line up for a year of hibernation, why bother about buying one?

And this is where I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. When I look at the current PB specs I don't see a mac, I see a modified PC. The gpu is an nvidia (difference being that dell and sony offer 256mb gmem instead of the pbs 64 and 128) just like another comp these days, it has the same so-dimms just like everybody else had a year ago (pretty much every high-end PC laptop runs DDR2 today). Are you telling me that it is the powerPC cpu on 1,67ghz/512k L2 cache/167Mhz FSB that outperforms for example dell's 2,26Ghz/2mb l2/533 FSB?
Or is it the superior effectivity of OSX versus XP that does all the difference?
And it's still worth spending more money on a powerbook?

I'm just plainly asking, why should I, today, even consider buying a powerbook when I can get a top of the line dell or sony vaio for the same money?
I've heard a lot of people talking about the "mac experience". Is that the reason why people pay more for less? Personally I think the new vaio's offer a more pleasurable using experience, but that's me.
I've also heard ppl buy PBs because of their incredible screens. I couldn't resist borrowing a friends newly bought inspiron and dragging it down to the local mac store for a comparison. The screens may have been differently configured, but my experience was that the dell screen was brighter, had the same resolution, but that the inspiron due to its brightness was less prone to reflections and the like. Bare in mind though, this was an entirely non-scientifical test. I've heard from a friend that the PB are great to work on, and can, eventhough not with the ease of a crt, be calibrated. Never tried calibrating an inspiron. The sum of the experience I'd say is that mac's screens ain't no greater than any other screen on the market today.
And, hey, if I'm after portabillity, the vaio's both weigh less and have longer battery life.


So, to sum it all up, Why should I today and for the following year even consider buying a mac laptop? I'm after a stable yet portable machine I can work on. I more or less only use photoshop.
I'll greatly appreciate to hear your honest thoughts on this, as experienced mac users. Although I'm not in much need of "PC sucks mac rocks" type of comments. THanks!


edit: forgot to mention.. dell also offers free memory upgrades this week... don't see that coming out of applestore...
 

iMeowbot

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fhoto said:
So this is what it all boils down to: since apple has set them and their pb line up for a year of hibernation, why bother about buying one?
A PowerBook or iBook are the only options right now if you want to run OS X applications natively on a notebook. If OS X isn't a big deal to you, enjoy your new PC!
 

Blue Velvet

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There's no doubt that the PB line is stagnant... further speed gains were improbable given the unpromising results of G5 chip production in terms of heat and power consumption.

Listen, if you really want a Mac, you'll go and get one now or wait... if you're happy with a PC then that's cool too -- you can get one of those straight away but colour management in Windows leaves a lot to be desired, let alone its user-friendliness with peripherals and general clunkiness.

The other option is to try and pick up a refurbished PB from Apple -- good as new but cheaper.

If you genuinely think that using Windows is a more pleasurable user experience than using a Mac, then perhaps a Mac is not for you anyway.
 

Euan

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fhoto said:
Hey, I'm new to this forum and I'll do my best not turning this thread into another "should I buy now or wait discussion", eventhough I guess that's what it all comes down to in the end anyway :p
Welcome to the forums. You're comments about Apple....

fhoto said:
they ain't cutting their ridiculous prices.
I guess not everyone seems them as ridiculous. I've read a few threads about this issue recently. You pay for what you get. If Apples were as mass-produced as PCs (and their components) I imagine Apples would come down in price.

fhoto said:
When I look at the current PB specs I don't see a mac, I see a modified PC.
Dont' quite see it myself.

fhoto said:
dell's 2,26Ghz/2mb l2/533 FSB?
fhoto said:
my experience was that the dell screen was brighter
fhoto said:
dell also offers free memory upgrades this week... don't see that coming out of applestore...
You seem to like Dells.... why not just buy a Dell? From what you say their screens are good, they are powerful and more reasonably prices.

Or do you really want an Apple?
 

generik

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Euan said:
Welcome to the forums. You're comments about Apple....

Your, not YOU ARE.

Why? That one button mouse has made you too lazy?

Euan said:
I guess not everyone seems them as ridiculous. I've read a few threads about this issue recently. You pay for what you get. If Apples were as mass-produced as PCs (and their components) I imagine Apples would come down in price.


Maybe.. but I'm pretty sure not everyone sees them as reasonable either. Plus not everyone has a TWENTY percent margin either!

Euan said:
Dont' quite see it myself.

Oh, and please keep being delusional.

Demonstration Alpha!

Test subject A: A powermac G5

Instrumentation we've got.. a handy screw driver, oh wait, we don't need that.

*cracks open case*, let's see.. same IDE hard drives, same asus custom made mobo, same PCI slots, same DDR memory.

Sorry bud, I hate to rain on your parade, and I understand people don't like to quite look the fool, but You've been gourged upon

I don't mind paying that premium on a Mac when in the past they do have quality SCSI drives and others... but nowadays. Tell me what I'm paying for in mac hardware again? MacOS?

Hahahaha, hahahaha. You are joking right?

Hahahaha.

Say what you want about others using cheap inferior memory or less pixie dust in making their PCBs, think what you want. Oh, and what's that on your "Logic Board"? Butt ugly capacitors right? Pfft, that's so 1970s...

Maybe you should see the digital VRM modules on my dual Opteron box. Look Ma! No caps! Not a single one!

Euan said:
You seem to like Dells.... why not just buy a Dell? From what you say their screens are good, they are powerful and more reasonably prices.

Or do you really want an Apple?

It's irrelevant. I see Apple as just another producer of hardware. Nothing more, nothing less, no magic behind it. And judging from my Apple products I've seen.. they are good quality but nothing extraordinary either.

Please don't tell me by "thinking different" all that you are able to do is just to become another cog for a MNC's marketing agenda. Cya!
 

Blue Velvet

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generik said:
I see Apple as just another producer of hardware.

Except for OSX and all the other iLife & pro apps which are a far superior OS and user-experience than any flavour of Windows currently on offer... the OS is the computing experience, not the "digital VRM modules". :rolleyes:

You sound like you really know a lot about Macs. Remember, most of us came from the Windows world -- we know what we speak of.
 

Passante

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fhoto said:
Problem being, they ain't cutting their ridiculous prices.
I've seen alot of people say this but when they try to give examples of cheaper Dells or Sonys they find that they are not so cheap.

How about providing a specific example of a Sony/Dull laptop that you think is so much cheaper than a powerbook. Please provide the full specs. Most of the really cheap notebooks either weight lbs more, intergrated graphics or are 3 times the thickness of a powerbook.

Just another newbie whine.
 

risc

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Jul 23, 2004
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Passante said:
How about providing a specific example of a Sony/Dull laptop that you think is so much cheaper than a powerbook.

Oh God don't open that can of worms! If people don't know what makes Macs a nicer computing experience let them go buy their PCs. This has been done to death all of these threads should be locked.
 

Blue Velvet

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risc said:
This has been done to death all of these threads should be locked.

Normally, I would agree but in this case I do think the OP genuinely wanted some answers to his questions. This was before the troll-like n00b turned up with his incredibly intelligent and helpful contribution.
 

iMeowbot

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generik said:
Maybe you should see the digital VRM modules on my dual Opteron box. Look Ma! No caps! Not a single one!
There are still caps on there, or your nifty little VRMs wouldn't work. They're ceramics instead of electrolytics, but they're there all right.
 

mad jew

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Apr 3, 2004
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fhoto, I'd argue that if you're after a laptop with raw grunt that can churn through your Photoshop tasks with relative ease then I recommend a PC. It'll be cheaper to buy in RRP terms compared to a PowerBook with anything close to the raw CPU performance.

However, obviously there is much more to a laptop than merely the CPU. Two areas that I think the PowerBook would truly wipe the floor with the majority of PC laptops is the integrated nature of the hardware. Apple has spent a lot of time and many resources engineering a laptop with the best possible combination of different hardware out on the market. They have then gone on to write their own OS which best encompasses this hardware. As many people here have already posted, it's the OS that best justifies the slightly higher RRP of a Mac. This OS is incredible. I run PCs and Macs and can safely say that it's something you must experience and use because merely explaining its benefits will never do it justice. A PowerBook will give you adequate grunt plus an OS that is optimised for its hardware plus an OS that is intuitive, stable and easy to use.

I don't know how well you know OSX, but if possible, maybe get your hands on a PowerBook for a week or so. Seven days still won't give OSX justice, but it will hopefully give you some idea of just how great this OS is. :)

generik, I am writing this in white because it somehow seems less offensive, plus it is completely off topic. I am a self-confessed Mac fan boy which is pretty sad. However, I am perfectly comfortable with that. There is only one thing sadder than a guy obsessed with a computer OS and that is a boy, obsessed with an OS, who bothers to troll on the "oppositions" forums. I use both PCs and Macs and I know which OS I prefer. I also now know which OS you prefer. However, you have done nothing to provide me with any empathy with your bigoted response to Euan's comments. I recommend constructing a more objective response next time to properly portray your points. For more information, click here.
 

dcv

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May 24, 2005
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I agree to an extent with some of the comments you made regarding the hardware. Yes, there are some better specced PCs out there for less money and this is also a reason why I hesitated before buying a PowerBook over a Vaio notebook.

However....

fhoto said:
Or is it the superior effectivity of OSX versus XP that does all the difference?
And it's still worth spending more money on a powerbook?

.... THIS is exactly the reason why Apple can justify its prices and aging hardware components. OS X doesn't *need* the latest and greatest bits to run amazingly well.

If you want the biggest/fastest etc get a PC. If you want something that WORKS and is a real pleasure to use, buy a Mac. I did and i've never regretted that decision. In fact my only regret is not having switched sooner.
 

Vinnie_vw

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Sep 16, 2005
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Hi, second post on this forum (as I'm soon to be the proud owner of my first Apple: a 12" ibook, I thought the powerbook was overpriced too)

So basically, what I'm hearing from every Mac-fan, is that the OS makes most of the difference? Isn't OS X basically Linux, and so would running Linux on a PC (or PC-laptop) negate this argument? I know that OS X has more commercial software-support, but I could also find freeware open-office and other apps easily for Linux (or perhaps run windows-emulated software, dunno if that exists..)?

Personally, my reasons, derived from online research, for buying the iBook (not applicable for the PB) over a PC-laptop of comparable pricing (I'm paying the student-discount btw) are the following:

primary reasons:
  • Durability - Apple notebooks last longer;
  • (relatively) long battery-life - most laptops at this price last up to 3 hrs.;
  • (relatively) lighter;
  • A-brand support - most laptops with my required features and similar pricing are B-brands
secondary reasons:
  • dedicated video-ram - even though its only 32 mb in the IBs' case (64mb in the PB, I think), the higher but shared video-ram in PC-laptops of comparable pricing, are deceptive and inferior from what I read;
  • better memory-management - but if the IB hadn't recently been updated to 512 MB, I would not have bought it.
  • commercial software support - I really only need an office-package for writing my thesis, and a media-player for playing music

Anyway, it really depends on what you want to use the laptop for. In my case, it had to be portable and trustworthy, most of all. I believe that the iBook will meet those expections. For people, who want to do photo-editing and other processor/ram-intensive activities, I would not even recommend a mobile solution, as that will always involve a tradeoff...
 

mad jew

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OSX and Linux are very different. For a start, OSX is user friendly. :p

Nevertheless Vinnie_vw, you raise some excellent points. Welcome to the mac community. :)
 

Moxiemike

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fhoto said:
Hey, I'm new to this forum and I'll do my best not turning this thread into another "should I buy now or wait discussion", eventhough I guess that's what it all comes down to in the end anyway :p

I'm a photographer and need a laptop bad. I currently have a stationary stone age PC wich catches fire after half an hour of photoshopping.
Now, I've been checking out the powerbooks for quite a while and basically been waiting since last april that they'll transform these "state-of-the-art" machines into something that's actually close to the current state-of-the-art. As of today, I could buy a pb and probably get along fine, but they'll have to cut the price with about 30% first to get it down to a reasonable you-get-what-you-pay-for level. I'd probably spend the next months trying to get over the idea of being fooled into investing in last years technology anyway, but it'll probably do fine.

Problem being, they ain't cutting their ridiculous prices. And as if that wasn't enough, you're all telling me that it'll most likely take another 6 months until they'll bother to upgrade their hardware. And when they finally do, they'll release some first-gen trial machine wich obviously is going to be plagued by first-gen issues, right?
So this is what it all boils down to: since apple has set them and their pb line up for a year of hibernation, why bother about buying one?

And this is where I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. When I look at the current PB specs I don't see a mac, I see a modified PC. The gpu is an nvidia (difference being that dell and sony offer 256mb gmem instead of the pbs 64 and 128) just like another comp these days, it has the same so-dimms just like everybody else had a year ago (pretty much every high-end PC laptop runs DDR2 today). Are you telling me that it is the powerPC cpu on 1,67ghz/512k L2 cache/167Mhz FSB that outperforms for example dell's 2,26Ghz/2mb l2/533 FSB?
Or is it the superior effectivity of OSX versus XP that does all the difference?
And it's still worth spending more money on a powerbook?

I'm just plainly asking, why should I, today, even consider buying a powerbook when I can get a top of the line dell or sony vaio for the same money?
I've heard a lot of people talking about the "mac experience". Is that the reason why people pay more for less? Personally I think the new vaio's offer a more pleasurable using experience, but that's me.
I've also heard ppl buy PBs because of their incredible screens. I couldn't resist borrowing a friends newly bought inspiron and dragging it down to the local mac store for a comparison. The screens may have been differently configured, but my experience was that the dell screen was brighter, had the same resolution, but that the inspiron due to its brightness was less prone to reflections and the like. Bare in mind though, this was an entirely non-scientifical test. I've heard from a friend that the PB are great to work on, and can, eventhough not with the ease of a crt, be calibrated. Never tried calibrating an inspiron. The sum of the experience I'd say is that mac's screens ain't no greater than any other screen on the market today.
And, hey, if I'm after portabillity, the vaio's both weigh less and have longer battery life.


So, to sum it all up, Why should I today and for the following year even consider buying a mac laptop? I'm after a stable yet portable machine I can work on. I more or less only use photoshop.
I'll greatly appreciate to hear your honest thoughts on this, as experienced mac users. Although I'm not in much need of "PC sucks mac rocks" type of comments. THanks!


edit: forgot to mention.. dell also offers free memory upgrades this week... don't see that coming out of applestore...


He probably can't justify an apple purchase after spending loads of money switching from Nikon to Canon since Nikon didn't release a 22mp FF D200 with 10-1000 f 1.0 lens with AF-S and VR.

Go over to dpreview.com and do a search for "D200" and you'll find about 20 of these posts, where you can just interchange "Nikon" for "Apple" and "Canon" for "Dell" and you'll have the same thing.

Just another troll. Nothing to see here. Move along.
 

Abstract

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Firstly, you're right about the hardware in many ways. However, for your Photoshop work:

1) A 256MB video NVidia GeForce 6800 Go ULTRA video card will not make Photoshop work any faster. That particular video card you mentioned on the Dell is a gaming PC (Inspiron XPS Gen 2) that costs $2378 for the 2GHz Pentium-M processor, or more money for the 2.13GHz version. It's obviously very fast, but the performance difference you see will be due to the processor, not this video card. You're paying for a lot of weird video game crap. I mean, subwoofers? Seriously?

If you're not talking about this computer, I can't find a faster Dell, or anything that comes close. I didn't through the Sony Vaio website because their laptops are ridiculously expensive for what you get, even more ridiculous than Apple prices.

**At least with IBM/Lenovo laptops, which are pricey like PowerBooks, you get what you pay for, and more. They're probably the best laptops in the world right now. Honestly.

I think you'll run PS faster on a PC laptop than on a PowerBook, but not THAT much faster, as the specs, including that video card, won't speed anything up relating to PS or almost any app that's not very high end, or video game related. The difference is the Pentium-M.

2) Apple's software and hardware work incredibly together. I know that sounds like salesman bulls***, but it's true. My Uni even bought me a Pentium IV, 3.4GHz hyperthreaded Dell Optiplex with 2GB of RAM. If I could form a cluster using 2 identical 1GHz PowerBooks, both with 1.25GB of RAM, I'm sure my Dell would still be faster. However, I still bring my PB to Uni every day. Why? Because i love it. I don't like using my Dell all that much.
Using Windows isn't horrible if you have SP2 and all the updates, but my PowerBook has always provided me with trouble-free, worry-free computing, even more-so than with Linux (SuSE). That's pretty incredible considering how often I use my computer.

I don't sit and think about anti-viruses, trojans, virus-laden emails, etc. I worry about nothing. When I use my PowerBook, I don't think about my computer at all. Why should I think about it? It's there. It's a tool. If it's too much trouble to own, that is a major turn-off for me. I don't ever worry about crashes (unless I'm using MS Word, Excel, or Safari, but Apple's Safari has been quite stable as of late).
Its like a lot of cars today. I like some VWs out there today. However, I wouldn't want to BUY one because VW has a history of producing cars with problems --- problems that require me to stop using my car for a few days. I wouldn't buy a VW for that reason.

3) The only problem I have EVER had using my Mac is with webcam instant messaging with my MSN-using friends. I' m not American and don't use AIM at all, so iChat is useless for me.

4) Every laptop maker offers at least ONE laptop with a screen as good or better than the one on the PowerBook. But many of those are the ones that use XBrite technology (or equivalent.....every company has their own name for it, it seems), and that uses a reflective display. I HATE being able to see my own reflection in the display. Give me a screen that's slightly less bright as long as my reflection isn't so noticeable. It is VERY noticeable on those laptops.

Anyway, a PowerBook will run Photoshop like a champ, although a bit slower than a PC laptop will. If it takes a PC laptop 20 seconds to do something, maybe it'll take a PowerBook 28 seconds. I don't know.
 

fhoto

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jesus, why do people get offended when you post things like this? Telling me that "You seem to like Dells.... why not just buy a Dell?" ain't helping because what I was asking is _why_ I shouldn't buy, for example a dell, instead of a pb, using dell as a mere example as it is a company wich offers pretty much the same product range as apple, and shares about the same view on performance/stabillity. My tone might have been a bit harsh, but my intention was never to lash out on how crappy mac is, quite the opposite actually. ;)

Anyway, a lot of your comments have been quite helpful. The idea that apple constructs their computers for ultimate compatibillity between its components is quite neat and is what got me interested in mac in the first place. It's a really great idea actually, that everything is ultimately optimized for eachother. Here's where a friend of mine (who btw has a major in computer engineering and programming and has worked for numerous tech supports and the like) challanged me.
I discussed this with him and he pretty much agreed that that's the case with apple... and with dell, and with ibm, and with sony... difference being that apple has turned it into a marketing strategy of uncomparable magnitude, according to him. Something wich seems quite logical.
If one is to believe this, what it boils down to is the fact that apple has the abillity to design, as mad jew pointed out, their OS after their hardware, while the PC industry has to correct their hardware setups after the available OS. Question being, do they really? I checked through the comparison you posted (http://www.xvsxp.com/) but I saw nothing about wich performs better, just wether wich had best support for whatever? Is OSX really that much better optimized for its hardware, compared to XP pro?

"If OS X isn't a big deal to you, enjoy your new PC!" - Is this what it all comes down to?

If that's the case, I really got to ask this question. Does it matter as I'll pretty much only be using one or two programs on it, both wich work just as fine on a mac as on a pc?
I'm asking this, as mad jew quite correctly guessed I have little experience with OSX.
Another question. I've percieved OSX as a huge bundle with everything integrated into eachother. Is this correct? I'm asking because the reason why I like XP is that when you first install it, it's full of crap. Thing being, you can throw out pretty much everything you don't need or want, thereby boosting the speed of it. Is this possible with OSX? Or is it unnecessary in OSX? ;)

and, yep, a stationary would be better for photoshop... but I need the mobillity.

again, thanks for the replys!
 

Moxiemike

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Abstract said:
I wouldn't consider him a troll at all. I don't know the exact definition of a troll, but to me, a troll doesn't make any valid points at all, whereas Fhoto does.


Any professional photographer should know that the bulletproof vest that is a powerbook is A number ONE the most important tool you can take on remote shoots. They'd also know that the color management on a Mac will far and away demolish the PC. For their work, they should also have experienced how much smooter Adobe Photoshop as well as Camera RAW run on the Mac.

The stability of a powerbook alone (or ibook for that matter), due to OS X, when taken into the field is a huge advantage. The OP also isn't aware it seems, of battery life. I think Windows lappies are improving on that end, but my Powerbook, two years on, still gets me 3 hours of downloading and image prep time in the field, and that's downloading 1 and 2 gig flash cards.

The advantages of a mac, and specifically of OS X, are well documented on Apple's site with several stories of just how well a Mac integrates into a pro photographers workflow.

And lastly, let me bring up two words again:

COLOR MANAGEMENT.

The photographers who persist to use windows, that i've seen, are often left with too bright, off color photos, 99.9% due to windows lack of any resembling professional color management. This reason alone, for me, as a professional designer and photographer, justifies the price difference for me.

And to be honest, i'd be willing to bet my 50mm prime that my reputation has been forged in large part because of qualities my work embodies that are direct results of learning and mastering the art of color management, establishing a reliable workflow and giving my clients consistent, well-toned results. The proof is in the pudding!

As a pro photographer, I don't skimp on lenses, as I know they're my best chance at a rock solid image. I might spent 4 times what you might on a 28-80 zoom or a macro lens, but in the end, the image quality is well worth the additional expediture.

In this day and age of digital photography, we see too many people worried about 4mp, 6mp, 8mp, 12mp, 16mp, 22mp, and on and on and on, so much so that they forget to realize that their work is null and void if the intagibles are ignored.

If you're a pro, and you want the color, consistency, stability and reliability that professional photographers had in their hands during the film ages, a Mac is the only real choice.
 

fhoto

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you guys posted while I was writing ;)

thanks for the reply abstract. Only thing I like about the vaio's compared to the pb's is the increase in cache memory. If you look at the home computers (not the ultraslims), which weigh about the same as the PBs, they prices are pretty much the same as the pb range. Problem with them is that their battery life sucks.. :/

I'll guess I'll have to begin to believe you guys when it comes to 'the mac experience' as no one fails to mention it and really stress its importance ;)

and, btw, don't know what you mean by troll, but in case you care I've been using the same 30yr old canon for 10 years now.. :p
 

Blue Velvet

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fhoto said:
I've percieved OSX as a huge bundle with everything integrated into eachother. Is this correct? I'm asking because the reason why I like XP is that when you first install it, it's full of crap. Thing being, you can throw out pretty much everything you don't need or want, thereby boosting the speed of it. Is this possible with OSX? Or is it unnecessary in OSX? ;)

Unnecessary.

Just a fantastic suite of applications that you can install if you want or discard if disk space is tight. However, doing so will not affect the performance of the Mac.
 

Moxiemike

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fhoto said:
you guys posted while I was writing ;)

thanks for the reply abstract. Only thing I like about the vaio's compared to the pb's is the increase in cache memory. If you look at the home computers (not the ultraslims), which weigh about the same as the PBs, they prices are pretty much the same as the pb range. Problem with them is that their battery life sucks.. :/

I'll guess I'll have to begin to believe you guys when it comes to 'the mac experience' as no one fails to mention it and really stress its importance ;)

and, btw, don't know what you mean by troll, but in case you care I've been using the same 30yr old canon for 10 years now.. :p

good on ya. I have an AE-1 that performs as well as the 10d.

there's a bunch of reasons above to buy a mac. you do understand, i'm sure, that given the climate in forums these days why I would come to the conclusion that you're a troll. YOu come into a mac forum, and start bragging on why PCs should theoretically be surperior, you don't have any personal info in your profile, et. al.

Go to apple. Search for Pro Photography.

You'll fnd tons of reasons there. The people here, for the most part, don't know the pro photo guy's workflow. If that's important to you, those articles on apple.com should be your first required reading.
 
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