On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kenton Brede <[email protected]> wrote: > I've decided to purchase a laptop for RAW image processing. I'm also > a budding nature audio recordist, so I'll be doing audio post > processing as well. So far I've only played with Bibble and Picassa a > bit processing photos. My plan is to give Photoshop and Lightroom a > try. > > I would like to purchase a mac since it's unix based, but I need a > more compelling reason than that to justify spending the extra money. > > Those of you who've used image processing software on both platforms, > what reasons made you settle on one OS over the other for working > images? > > Thanks, > Kent
It's a tossup, really. Right now I'd have to prefer Windows for Photo editing work. Better 64 bit support (allowing you to make use of more than 3GB of RAM) and the printing system doesn't have the issues that Snow Leopard currently has (and Apple still hasn't fixed. It ain't just PS with profile issues in Snow Leopard, the problem is in the printing system). It's not a huge difference but Windows has fixed most of the 64 bit issues and OS X still has a few of those. This is mostly a result of Windows (and the Windows version of Photoshop) having gone fully 64-bit a full version cycle ahead of OS X. That said, OS X is definitely ahead for Audio work and you get a pretty good low-end multitrack recording app in Garageband for free. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
