jeffryscott
2006 Rally Course Champion: Expedition Trophy
To save money, I bought my daughter a Lenovo android tablet instead of an iPad, I've already had to restore it once, it comes with loads of programs that are of no use, that I cannot delete and is just clunky to use overall. It is fine for occasional use, and for an 8 year old. As for the Mac platform, what do the current towers not do that you need? We all get caught up in the latest and fastest, but the reality is most (and Scott, I know you are not most and are indeed a power user) don't need the power modern computers already provide.
Are there faster chips not available in the mac towers that are available in PC world?
As for Aperture, I find it much better overall than Lightroom, and updates have not been substantially slower than updates for Adobe products (it seems like when Adobe issues an update for Lightroom, Aperture is 2-3 days behind). I can't even get RAW conversion software for Photoshop for my current camera because I've not updated to the current photoshop. With Adobe's new cloud based approach, I'll never upgrade my photoshop. While I'm not shooting professionally anymore, even if I was I wouldn't/couldn't justify the cost of the new Adobe approach.
At work, it is a Windows XP based network (how old is XP anyway, I think that says a lot about Microsoft's innovation). Everyday, in nearly every patients room, I'm plagued with crashes of the software. The only way to fix it is rebooting, which takes at least 1/2 hour in this environment. I don't know if this is because it is network based, or just Windows in general. Since OS X beta, I can count on less than one hand how many times I've "had" to reboot because of system errors.
Is Apple perfect, absolutely not, but for me, I wouldn't use anything else for serious work.
Are there faster chips not available in the mac towers that are available in PC world?
As for Aperture, I find it much better overall than Lightroom, and updates have not been substantially slower than updates for Adobe products (it seems like when Adobe issues an update for Lightroom, Aperture is 2-3 days behind). I can't even get RAW conversion software for Photoshop for my current camera because I've not updated to the current photoshop. With Adobe's new cloud based approach, I'll never upgrade my photoshop. While I'm not shooting professionally anymore, even if I was I wouldn't/couldn't justify the cost of the new Adobe approach.
At work, it is a Windows XP based network (how old is XP anyway, I think that says a lot about Microsoft's innovation). Everyday, in nearly every patients room, I'm plagued with crashes of the software. The only way to fix it is rebooting, which takes at least 1/2 hour in this environment. I don't know if this is because it is network based, or just Windows in general. Since OS X beta, I can count on less than one hand how many times I've "had" to reboot because of system errors.
Is Apple perfect, absolutely not, but for me, I wouldn't use anything else for serious work.