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andyb1375

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Hi Guys

I am just about to update my Laptop and cant decide if to buy a Toshiba with windows or to go the little extra and buy a applemac. The main use for the laptop is for photoshop work so graphics is the important bit.I have been offered a very nice 6 month old Apple mac with 18 months John lewis warranty for £500 and the Toshiba is abou the same price new.

All advice wecome
 
Adobe licenses are not transferable between PC and Mac. If you already have Photoshop and Lightroom then you may find changing a tad expensive.
Two people I know were forced to stick with Windows because of this.
 
Lightroom serial number is multi platform so you can swop between Mac and PC with the same serial no. In fact even the database is transferable, it'll be read by Macs or PC's.

Photoshop is a bit more complicated. Provided you have a current version of Photoshop Adobe will exchange it for the alternative platform version. However this is a once only change. There is sometimes a small handling charge.

Mac or PC. Your choice. I've been a PC user for many years with the ocassional foray into the mist world of Apple. Late last year I made the swith to Mac and have very littke problems. The only drawback is sometimes finding that odd peripheral or cit of software for Mac can be a bit difficult or a bit expensive. However I doubt if I'd go back to PC.

Its your choice.. However Macs are getting more popular, if you look at Apples sales figures for the early part of this year. If you get a chance try to visit a Apple Store and have a play. Usually no hassle from the staff and everything is in working order, not locked into a demo loop. Leave the credit card at home!!!!!
 
Chappers- that's interesting info my friends completely missed; I'll pass it on.

Agree with NeilG, Dell give great bang for the proverbial buck.
I'm a Dell fan and currently have three of my own (two laptops and mini-tower) and look after two for other people laptop and a mini-tower. All have performed flawlessly.
However.... One word of warning.....
I have a nightmare keeping the screen on my Dell Studio 17 calibrated.
I specced HD resolution with just the basic graphics hardware as I'll never use it for games. Unfortunately this hardware and it's drivers fight Vista and after a reboot I get skewed screen calibration that is unusable. Elsewhere on the web there are just a few other people reporting the same symptoms as me and they also have a Studio 17 with the basic graphics option. There's a rumour that Windows 7 might fix this for me but in the meantime I'd highly recommend taking the graphics upgrade.
 
I've had many Dell laptops from work and I've never had one where the power cord didn't split and fray and become dangerous (bare wires, sparking etc). Such a stupid fault and they don't seem to fix it, I'm sure I'm not the only person fed up with sending them back?
 
Thanks Guys

Some good points, well spoken

I fancy the features of the apple over the problems with windows.
I have weighed up the cost to change the photoshop for mac and it doesnt wok out that bad.

Question is: how much better is th MAC?
 
andyb1375 said:
Thanks Guys

Some good points, well spoken

I fancy the features of the apple over the problems with windows.
I have weighed up the cost to change the photoshop for mac and it doesnt wok out that bad.

Question is: how much better is th MAC?
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The thing that attracted me to the Mac is that it seems a brand new mac will last longer than a PC, its not designed for games so its not out of date as quick, the one I currently have a 2007 Macbook which has no dedicated GPU just an Intel integrated chip is fine for photoshop, etc however I've grown to live Windows 7 so I may well consider selling it on and buying a decent windows laptop that has got a decent battery life, something the Mac excels at.
 
mid_gen said:
I've had many Dell laptops from work and I've never had one where the power cord didn't split and fray and become dangerous (bare wires, sparking etc). Such a stupid fault and they don't seem to fix it, I'm sure I'm not the only person fed up with sending them back?
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depends how you treat them.. we've got the best part of 100 dell laptops and only a handful have had that problem. the users in question arent the most sympathetic to their kit i must say.. all of our laptop hardware faults have been user related, such as droppages or spillages (not guilty your honour.. :wave: ).

(im not implying that youre to blame)
 
The cables get wound and unwound pretty regular, I find that where the cable flexes as it meets the block just can't take the repeated bending.

Still, rest of the machines are alright, not as well built as Thinkpads imo, but cheaper last time I looked :)
 
andyb1375 said:
Thanks Guys

Some good points, well spoken

I fancy the features of the apple over the problems with windows.
I have weighed up the cost to change the photoshop for mac and it doesnt wok out that bad.
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If you contact Adobe UK customer service and tell them you want to migrate from PC t Mac and you don't have a current version of Photoshop they have a procedure for this.

First you have to prove you have a relevant version of Photoshop. A copy of the original invoice, or if not they may accept an image of the setup disk, plus the s/n of the version.

Next you have to sign a letter of destruction for the PC version

Finally a Credit Card payment for the UPGRADE ( not the full version.) to CS4.

A days latter a full version of CS4 for Mac arrives by Post.

Whole thing takes about a week.
 
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