So I just bought my first PC ever. Like most people I was incredibly underwhelmed with the recent mbp updates, so stated looking at non-mac options, and have to say there is a lot of cool stuff out there for photographers and creatives. I started with the surfaces, but they don't really seem powerful enough for anything other than very basic editing or tethering, and have a small gamut screen. This let me to the vaio z canvas, which has an incredible screen(95% aRGB), but gen 4 chipset, and a screen that is slightly too small(15in would be perfect). I finally found the dell precision mobile's and ordered one this week when it was on sale. 64gb ram max, 2 hd bays and a full aRGB coverage screen were the main selling points. It also has 3 years of pro support with next day on site repair, so no more need to waste time at the genus bar...
I'm still a bit in shock that I'm going to be using a pc, but it's become abundantly clear that apple doesn't want my business anymore... why don't they have high gamut monitors? laptops like the surface books where you can use a stylus on screen? multiple hd options? aRGB instead of P3? more ram? etc?
The great thing about the advent of cloud computing is that I can go back and forth depending on who releases the best devices. I can just deactivate adobe cc and capture one on a mac, and activate on a pc, or vice versa. The only issue is data storage, and that's something I'm trying to figure out. It looks like there are at least a few good options to have external hd's and a raid available for both mac and pc's.
I don't really care who makes my computer, just that it works and makes my workflow faster and easier, and at this point apple isn't doing that...