Since PS is essentially the same on both platforms, let's look at orher things. Here are some good things about doing imaging on the Mac platform:
OS level
- I find expose to be a very efficient way to deal with the processing of several images in several applications since you can see them at a glance when trying to switch from one application/window to another
Never find a need for Expose on Mac [or Windows]. I find Cmd+Tab easier and faster to use.
And if we are talking OS stuff - Finder, yeuch such an appalling programme, a very serious impediment to efficient working, thankfully you can bypass it most of the time.
- I see no performance degradation after thousands of hours of usage, which differs from my Win experience,
I'm about to reinstall OXS fresh again, just like I used to with windows as I'm fed up with the constant slow running and freezes.
The beachball of doom appears very frequently and I do Cmd+Alt +Esc to force quit more often that I ever did Cntrl+Alt +Del to close apps.
And when one programme plays up most of hte other then do so as well.
The lack of virus has been a reality so far after a cumulated 7 years on Mac (spread over 3 machines) and is mostly valuable thanks to the reduced need for performance hungru virus buster apps like Norton
Norton is indeed truly awful, but there are other options with little/no overhead and Virus threats were an over rated issue as long as you are sensible. And as I mentioned above, the most damage ever dealt to my computer was by iTunes rearranging all my music without asking.
Networking accross several Macs is IMHO simpler to configure while remaining secure
Networking is a pain full stop. I've had problems with networking with the Macs and the PCs, my Macs still refuse to see the PC laptop and for a while wouldn't see each other.
It is possible to virtualize Win 7 in OSX (which I am currently doing with a Win7 64 bits instance) but the opposite is more diffcult and less legal.
Interesting how Window's more flexible behaviour twisted around to sound like OSX is better.
Hardware:
- I find my Mac Pro to be quieter than any other equivalent WS I have had the chance to work with. This increases the value of my Nuforce music system,
You can buy quiet PCs just as you can loud Macs, the plastic G5 was nicknamed the wind tunnel by some people. PCs were quieter before Macs were.
The current aluminium cased MP is however very nice and quiet.
It is one of the easiest machine to open and configure (HD addition,...)
Now you are 'aving a larf!'
Previously you couldn't add extra internal HDs to Macs and why so many people kept talking about why it was better to keep stuff on external HDs, as opposed to a second internal HD, like PC users did.
My PC case held 9 HDs. Adding more than the 3 there were spaces for in my Mac Pro, involved removing my optical drive - which was so noisy I was glad to be shot of it. Removing fiddly fans and shaving eSata cables to fit on very hard to reach connectors also took some time.
Macs have many advantages by ease of tweaking, customising and upgrading hardware is not one of them.
Applications
- Raw Developper is Mac only,
- Aperture is Mac only.
And your point is...?
Some annoying things about the Mac plarform:
- some key apps are often ported late (DxO is an obvious example)
Or not at all and far more than the two you listed as being Mac only, neither of which I rate very highly and are probably less important to a PS user who would find much better integration with ACR/Bridge/LR.
There are actually slight differences with PS as it happens between the two OSs.
Mac - Drop down menus will disappear off screen if near edges, you are forced to have File menu on main monitor, The Chrome on a PC is more space efficient, which is useful for small laptops. Dodgy Fonts do not cause problems as they do on Macs, which can crash PS completely.
The major difference is that PCs can run lots of programmes much better than Macs do, so if you like to have lots of software open, PCs are way better.
And PCs work fine if your browser comes a cross a website with Flash in it. Macs can grind to a halt, yet although Flash works fine on most of the world's computers, it's Adobe's fault that OSX has problems with it.
Safari crashed earler and the remarkablychildish dialogue that came up was this
and guess what there were no pages with flash on, Safari crashed all by itself and is now trying to tarnish Adobe in the process, which is really pathetic even by Job's normal low standards.
In fact Apple's recent childlike and deeply hypocritical behaviour about open standards and the letter from Steve attacking Adobe, with its numerous lies and mis-truths, is making me think my next computer will not be one of theirs. I've made sure I do not use software that is Mac only, as I do not like being locked in.
I actually like my Macs in many ways, but I am not blind to their many flaws and failing and get fed up with crazy and usually quite ignorant fanboi rantings about how perfect they are and useless PCs are. Neither is perfect, but only one claims to be and yet despite controlling both the hardware and the software as wel as being a premium priced brand, Apple computers are no more problem free than PCs in my experience.
