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Hi,

Which one is used mainly in studios?
What is the benefit of having a mac or a pc in a studio?

Does tethered shooting work better on mac or pc?


Matt
 
I have recently switched to Mac and I love the integration and workflow. Some don't see the point, thats fine too :)

I love my shiney Mac though :D
 
So is workflow easy to do on the mac?

I have used a mac before and loved it but just found it to alien compared to xp and vista.

But i wouldnt hesitate to go back to mac if its going to give me better results in photography

Matt
 
There is very little a computer can do to help you with your results (ignoring Postprocessing as thats platform agnostic) - workflow helps when you have thousands of images to work through after a large event, I do graduations - the mac is a big help here but I'm sure the same could be achieved with M$ - just a little more tweaking.
 
To be honest if you are using say Lightroom on a PC or a Mac it is much the same, as are the camera manufacturers software. I think it boils down to 2 things, tradition (Macs used to be a lot better than PCs for graphics etc) and personal preference.

With regards to workflow I think it is a lot easier to automate things on a Mac than on a PC, Mac is drag and drop to large extent, whereas a PC would need some coding...
 
Hi I have used PC for over 25 years I was talked into a Mac 2.8 Intel core 2 duo with 24 inch screen
It's a one way trip with speed and clear bright images
Only down side is software manufactures like Serif and Photodex don't do Mac programs Still when i can get my hands of Adobe CS4 I won't need them
 
having used both macs and pc's they're similar but i find the mac way of going about stuff backwards and don't generally like paying a premium on the price of my hardware because it's got a bit of fruit on it.
 
neither is really better, but generally PCs are cheaper, especially if you're willing to build yourself.
 
Dual Boot "Hackintosh" for me.

Best of both worlds with Vista 64 on one drive, and OSX 10.5.5 on the other.

Means i get the hardware I want (4ghz core2duo, 4 x 1tb drives, 8gb DDR2), without the price premium.
 
Macbook for me... with Parallels available to run XP inside a window as a separate app in OSx. XP runs faster on a window on my Mac than it does on my windows PC!!

You really do have to experience this to see how good it is running XP on a Mac...!
 
Looking at laptops for my Dad the last few days I don't think the Macbook range is over priced at all, yeah the pro range are expensive but I bet if you specced a PC the same (not just matching specs, but quality too) the difference wouldn't be that much...
 
I got myself a nice new i-mac recently and that too has the choice of Leopard or Vista. I must admit I do switch between the two a lot while I pick up more mac skills. I do like aperture though on the mac and when Picasa for mac becomes available I might ditch Vista.
 
Thought I'd pop a screenshot of XP running in a window in Mac OSx. I have started Firefox in XP and navigated to this thread on tP...

xponmac.jpg
 
just wondering - you know when you click on a jpeg windows opens up the 'picture and fax viewer' thing, basically a quick way of seeing what the jpeg looks like full screen, is there something like that on the mac? what does iphoto do when is sees a jpeg/photo file? copy them all to a new location or leave them where they are? just wondering thats all
 
The mac equivelent of Windows Picture Viewer is "Preview". Does essentially the same thing, except it will also open RAW files, PDF's and many other things that WPV won't.
 
MAC or PC that's interesting. If you'd asked me a few months ago what do most photographers use I would have said MAC. However I watched a video caste from Adobe with Andrew Rodney, one of the US's leading colour management specialists. At the start he asked people to answer a simple questionnaire as to which platform they were using. It seemed that over 70% were on PC's(???).

I've used both and both have there good and bad points. I'm about to migrate in the next few months from PC to MAC ( need to wait for one or two things to fall into place). The only reason is the MAC spec for the computer I want is better.

There are 2 Apple stores in Manchester. Go in and have a play .. Sorry investigate, the Macs they have. They were all running Photoshop ( well the Trafford center was) and you could stay as long as you like. Try doing that in PC world
 
shiato storm said:
just wondering - you know when you click on a jpeg windows opens up the 'picture and fax viewer' thing, basically a quick way of seeing what the jpeg looks like full screen, is there something like that on the mac? what does iphoto do when is sees a jpeg/photo file? copy them all to a new location or leave them where they are? just wondering thats all
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Hiya

On a Mac, though as has been said, Preview is the application you can select that will open all manner of files, you don't need to open it to view it. Simply press the spacebar at any time when the file is selected. This will open a nice pop-up version of whatever document has been selected... jpg, word, excel, pdf, anything really.

Works a treat too!
 
My latest aquisition (bought from Whitey from these forums for £bargain price :) )

Running OSX and Vista 64 as a Dual boot. Best of both worlds at a knockdown price.

DSCF0147.JPG
 
thats cool, can you go through things in a folder in the same way by tapping arrow keys left or right etc.?
 
shiato storm said:
thats cool, can you go through things in a folder in the same way by tapping arrow keys left or right etc.?
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If you mean on the OSx86 install above? Its exactly the same as OS X on Mac hardware, providing your hardware is compatible.
 
shiato storm said:
thats cool, can you go through things in a folder in the same way by tapping arrow keys left or right etc.?
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Check my post#14 on here. It's a screenshot from my Mac that has parralels running in a Mac OSX window - with XP running in Parallels, and Firefox running in XP... all in a Mac Window.

XP runs faster on my Mac in a Mac window in Parallels, than it does on my Dell!

Usually - if I need to run XP as well, I have this running in a separate monitor - all drag and drop features work perfectly. I can drag from OSx to XP and vice-versa.
 
I would love to take that Packard Bell into PC world and tell them I have a problem with Vista, just to see the response
 
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