Quick is a simple video stitching area which is PERFECT. Comes with 3 modes, Quick, Guided, and Expert. I am now a CIO of a major company – all PC’s no Macs.It isnt too bad. However, to do Just to introduce myself, I have been a user of Photoshop for 20 years, used to teach it as part of a consultancy job I had at the beginning of my career, then on Macs. Jokes aside, its versatility makes it an attractive choice for most photographers, graphic and web designers and other image-editing and design professionals. The web is full of celebrities whose images have been comically altered to provide us with entertainment.
Good Specs For Adobe Photoshop Mac OS Can BeSay your system becomes corrupt, (which happens often on a PC) – to recover the PC, you have to reinstall Windows on the C drive, and this wipes all of your content from that drive.On a Mac you boot the machine from an external drive, and repair the corrupt files using a utility.However – don’t think that switching is all plain sailing, there are new things to learn and don’t believe that Macs never crash or that you won’t have to read a manual again.New software will also be required though all the big name Photo products work in the same way. I was so frustrated with all the problems with my PC’s that I decided to buy an Apple Laptop to try out the Mac again in 2007.Incidentally I bought mine from Dixons Tax free at the airport, which was the cheapest place I could find even compared to US pricing.Here is an article in PC magazine 2007 that rated Mac OSX Leopard – as being “better than Windows Vista for most consumers”My conclusion was much the same, easier and more fun to use, lots of useful features – particularly automatic backup and so far much more stable.I think that Apple OSX Snow Leopard is currently the best OS for photo editing.Really good at connecting to external devicesPotential to really make the most of multicore processors.And the Mac OS can be booted from an external drive – That’s right, you can easily create a bootable external backup of your entire computer and just go and boot another Mac from your drive! This has saved me several times. The Apple hardware was based on PowerPC chips in the early and mid 2000′ was very slow compared to PC’s of the time.I used PC’s on Windows 2000 and then XP but I then had so many problems with hardware incompatibilities, I updated the firmware on a motherboard and it then refused to work at all, inability to get support from the motherboard manufacturer drove me in the direction of Apple as they at least support the whole system.![]() I use it for at least 12 hours a day, plugged into an external Eizo monitor with separate wireless keyboard at home or just on my lap on the move. I use it for my normal job, travelling the world, running meetings, Powerpoint presentations, and writing documents in Word. There are also less viruses and malware for the Mac.The MacBook has been a wonderful travelling companion. The Apple’s operating system is based on Unix and is much more robust than Windows. The 17″ machine I bought second hand on ebay.Apple’s key advantage is that they control hardware and software making their machines more reliable, less hassle to use and much better at connecting to external devices. These I gradually upgraded over the years. There then followed 15 minutes of tutorials to get the PC’s logged in – some never manged it even with MS tech support guys. I logged straight into it (it is very easy after all). At the beginning of the meeting the presenter issued us with a password to access their wireless network. I never get any negative comments from other business types, but do get a bit of jealousy!I visited Microsoft Seattle this year. So it does everything you would expect of a standard business PC laptop. Lightroom is now very sluggish.I would say the Mac is about 10x as reliable as any of my PC’s – crashes are very rare, I have never seen the equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death (which was a common site on my PC laptop). I could have course run windows on the Mac – but although I am told it runs better on the Mac than a PC – especially Vista I have not tried it myself.I run Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2 at the same time and they worked quickly up until the point that I bought a 5D mk2 with 21MP raw files. Unfortunately there is no MS Project which has caused me a few problems I use a Project file viewer called “Steelray”. Word, Excel and Powerpoint are great on the Mac, and completely inter-operable with the PC. I have tried “Open Office” which is free – but I couldn’t earn my living with it. I use MS Office 2008 on the Mac – it is fantastic. ![]() (£700 is a holiday or a new DSLR after all)Her ownership experience. The performance running Photoshop was identical in the tests. We specced a MacBook like mine, it came to around £1500, for comparison we spec’d a Dell XPS identically, 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB Hard drive (double mine at the time) it was under £800 – probably even cheaper now. She liked the design, usability screen quality etc. The first time I brought my Mac home, I connected it to the wireless network, the network drive appeared without me doing anything at all (no mapping of network drive needed), I ripped losslessly and uploaded from my laptop – no problem at all.So far then it is mostly upsides, there are some problems however, particularly if you are looking to buy a new laptop today.My girlfriend wanted to buy a new laptop, and of course I tried to persuade her to buy a Mac. Also the screen quality is simply in a different league. (some say you can switch all the graphics off if you want to).To be fair to MS, Vista before the recent service pack updates was unreliable – in fact I’d say it “just doesn’t work” but then that was true of XP also and they sorted that out eventually.The new Windows 7 OS is now much more reliable – it had to be – Windows 7 is basically “Vista done right” I say that Vista was the beta test for Windows 7!Other advantages of the Mac Laptop over the Dell XPS.The screen is the same size at 15.4″ and the same resolution 1400×900 but the Mac’s is LED backlight uses far less power giving much longer battery life, (hours). Oh and mostly it doesn’t really work that well, and it’s hard to find stuff, Allison is always saying “I hate Vista”. We haven’t got either of these interfaces to work properly yet.I have a PC formatted (FAT32) hard drive, the Mac can read and write to it, the PC running Vista cant! True of printers, scanners and others too.I find using Vista to be dreadful, it is like XP (which was good but cant access 4GB memory) but with a fake copy of the Mac OS grafted onto it. Personally having a reliable machine that works when I plug into an external device, that gives me great battery life, and that causes me less hassle is worth a lot. Is it worth the extra though for YOU? It depends how you value you time. Glossy screens also cant be properly colour calibrated.So personally overall I wouldn’t swap my Mac for the equivalent PC even if it is half the price. Unfortunately , offices, airports, and in fact anywhere you are likely to use a laptop won’t be dark. And worse of all the Dell has a glossy screen which is dreadful to use in anywhere but a dark environment because of reflections.
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