On Dec 12, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > 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. >
I no longer have printing problems with Snow Leopard and my Epson 2880. There was a system update from Apple a while back that was described as "Epson Upgrade." Don't know what it did, but my printing is now excellent. Just made six 11 x 17x for a customer this morning. All spot on. No redos. (Which was a good thing, because I was down to seven sheets of Exhibition Fibre. Paul > -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. -- 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.
