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Hi all
Just got back from the new Westfield shopping center in Hammersmith ( a must for photographing architecture!) and my eldest wanted to buy an ipod so it was off to the Apple store we went. While he was choosing what he wanted i had a look at the iMac's they had on display and i just thought WOW!!!! they are amazing! The quality of the screen was the best i had ever seen and the amount of stuff preloaded was impressive. I was very interested in the 20" 2gig ram model at around £920ish which for an all in one unit was good value.
The trip home had me thinking of what software i had on my PC i could either reload onto a mac or do without. So i have a few questions:
Who has made the leap and gone to the apple side of life and how did you do it, i.e gradually by keeping the PC too or just binning everything PC and going for the Mac?
I know there is a good selection of free office and image software for the Mac but i have the following programmes that i have just bought:
Photomatix pro, elements 7 and the Canon software that came with my camera. I know the canon software is mac compatible but Elements 7 says Windows XP / Vista on the box so I'm guessing it's not for Mac. Can i sell this on or is the licence for one person/machine? Photomatix is fine and i can download for Mac and use my current licence so that's ok.
Any other software that is a must for Mac & editing (Not CS3/4 as that's too dear and so is lightroom) i may get Elements7 for mac!
Thanks in advance
Andy
Just got back from the new Westfield shopping center in Hammersmith ( a must for photographing architecture!) and my eldest wanted to buy an ipod so it was off to the Apple store we went. While he was choosing what he wanted i had a look at the iMac's they had on display and i just thought WOW!!!! they are amazing! The quality of the screen was the best i had ever seen and the amount of stuff preloaded was impressive. I was very interested in the 20" 2gig ram model at around £920ish which for an all in one unit was good value.
The trip home had me thinking of what software i had on my PC i could either reload onto a mac or do without. So i have a few questions:
Who has made the leap and gone to the apple side of life and how did you do it, i.e gradually by keeping the PC too or just binning everything PC and going for the Mac?
I know there is a good selection of free office and image software for the Mac but i have the following programmes that i have just bought:
Photomatix pro, elements 7 and the Canon software that came with my camera. I know the canon software is mac compatible but Elements 7 says Windows XP / Vista on the box so I'm guessing it's not for Mac. Can i sell this on or is the licence for one person/machine? Photomatix is fine and i can download for Mac and use my current licence so that's ok.
Any other software that is a must for Mac & editing (Not CS3/4 as that's too dear and so is lightroom) i may get Elements7 for mac!
Thanks in advance
Andy