Aperture used to be a big reason I preferred Macs for photo work, but Apple killed it.
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Why Mac instead of PC for Photography??
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Same here, a lot of nuance gets lost when all you have are letters in black and white.I like a good debate... I have terminal open constantly too. I am trying to embrace python as a new way of working but I keep getting bored and defaulting to my usual weapons of choice - Korn shell, grep, sed, and awk...
Personally, I love git, and use it for all sorts of documents all the time. Back to photography.
Perhaps one day someone will make a very usable interface to GIMP along with a very usable DAM feature. Once done, we can say good bye to paying the Adobe tax to play. Okay, just wishful thinking on my part.
on top of what others have said
color management was a big thing for quite a while but in many ways those are equal enough now
also support for other togs many pros rely on other pros so when something goes wrong they can get help and those helping know the system usually
there is a reason many folks hate calling any tech support lines as you get someone thumbing through a 3 ring binder of answers !
so I would say
what they are used to applications and OS wise
support from others using the same gear
color management
looks good works good as said out of the way OS
color management was a big thing for quite a while but in many ways those are equal enough now
also support for other togs many pros rely on other pros so when something goes wrong they can get help and those helping know the system usually
there is a reason many folks hate calling any tech support lines as you get someone thumbing through a 3 ring binder of answers !
so I would say
what they are used to applications and OS wise
support from others using the same gear
color management
looks good works good as said out of the way OS
I will back up the first response to this post.
I used PCs for a long time. At one point I was running two systems that I was leapfrog upgrading every 6 months, liquid cooled and overclocked to get maximum performance. But, I switched to Mac shortly after getting an iPhone. When I did, I burned all my Windows bridges and refused to bootcamp or emulate anything. It either ran on OS X or it didn't get ran.
Shortly after that I upgraded my family and told them I was ceasing to offer windows support. I would only help them with Mac problems. There pretty much haven't been any.
So instead of digging out whatever went wrong this week, I now get to do what I want to do during that time. For me, the computer is no longer in the way. So while those hot PC's might be faster than a Mac, I was getting less done because I was fiddling with the computer instead of using the application I wanted. I have a friend working as storage support at Backspace who still spends half his time tweaking his PC so it will behave.
THAT is what I gave up when I switched.
I used PCs for a long time. At one point I was running two systems that I was leapfrog upgrading every 6 months, liquid cooled and overclocked to get maximum performance. But, I switched to Mac shortly after getting an iPhone. When I did, I burned all my Windows bridges and refused to bootcamp or emulate anything. It either ran on OS X or it didn't get ran.
Shortly after that I upgraded my family and told them I was ceasing to offer windows support. I would only help them with Mac problems. There pretty much haven't been any.
So instead of digging out whatever went wrong this week, I now get to do what I want to do during that time. For me, the computer is no longer in the way. So while those hot PC's might be faster than a Mac, I was getting less done because I was fiddling with the computer instead of using the application I wanted. I have a friend working as storage support at Backspace who still spends half his time tweaking his PC so it will behave.
THAT is what I gave up when I switched.
Since getting a MacBook last year I seldom use my Windows desktop, so it's pretty much all I've been using to edit photos. The Retina display is a big resolution boost from my old HP monitor and the color accuracy is quite good. I'm finding the MacBook display over-saturates colors a little, which I actually appreciate because it helps keep me from going overboard with color saturation on my end. I'm also using and enjoying some of the Macphun's software with Photoshop (Intensify is my favorite).
But it's not like they're aren't any good displays available for Windows machines.. and if you primarily use Adobe CC's photography apps there aren't any differences between how they function on a capable Mac or PC. I think most of the time it all comes down to which OS ecosystem you prefer.
But it's not like they're aren't any good displays available for Windows machines.. and if you primarily use Adobe CC's photography apps there aren't any differences between how they function on a capable Mac or PC. I think most of the time it all comes down to which OS ecosystem you prefer.