Should I go Mac?

[BettinaFJ]

Hey everyone!
I have an old HP Paviliion laptop which is practically falling apart, and I need a replacement ASAP.
I just cannot seem to make up my mind on whether I should stick with a laptop that uses Windows or go for a MacBook instead?
I use a couple of photo editing tools: Photoshop, Lightroom, Photomax Pro and of course EOS Utility to transfer the photos from my camera (an EOS 400D) What are your experiences with MacBooks when it comes to photo editing?
And with MacBooks in general?

Cheers,

B

 

[tremmor]

don't have a problem with mac's. if i was a professional and doing say photo editing then yes, i would have a mac. for general use and full compatibility i use what everybody is using. P4 works fine. most people here stay with the intel standard and works just fine.

 

[MyCattMaxx]

Once you go Mac you never go back... lol
Seriously like tremmor said, But I will add that there is nothing wrong with AMD either.
Depending on what you use a comp for a PC has more apps, games, etc for it.
If you like to game you will find more games made for a PC than a Mac.

 

[jarlmaster47]

macs are for editing and music stuff. pc's are for everything else. macs are overpriced and have generally shitty parts in them for a ridiculous price

 

[CrayonMuncher]

macs are good if you got the money to spend but i agree wih tremmor unless your using it for professional purposes you will probably want to stick with intel or amd
if you have a budget to work from im sure we can help find you a good laptop

 

[Geoff]

PC's are for editing and music stuff. Mac's are for everything else. PC's have generally shitty parts in them for a ridiculous price

Edited.

macs are good if you got the money to spend but i agree wih tremmor unless your using it for professional purposes you will probably want to stick with intel or amd
if you have a budget to work from im sure we can help find you a good laptop

Mac's use Intel Core 2 Duo's, i5's, and i7's.

 

[CrayonMuncher]

im aware of that they switched quite a while back from powerpc
i was impling the use of a pc running windows maybe i should have been more specific

 

[Jet]

It's really come to the point in time that both Mac and PC can run the programs you need. However, I will never buy a PC laptop because of how much attention Apple spends on build quality. I've never used a touchpad that's half as good as my Macbook Pro's.

 

[CrayonMuncher]

good point the touch pad is definatly intuative, it would be nice to have a simalar company paying that much attention to design and detail on a pc then there would be some more serious competition

 

[jarlmaster47]

Edited.


Mac's use Intel Core 2 Duo's, i5's, and i7's.

yeh but they charge you A LOT more for them. most macs don't offer the i7. I don't appreciate how you edited my post. I meant what I said. Macs have krappy ram too. macs suck!

 

[Geoff]

im aware of that they switched quite a while back from powerpc
i was impling the use of a pc running windows maybe i should have been more specific

Well, considering how you never mentioned Windows, then yes, you should have rephrased it.

yeh but they charge you A LOT more for them. most macs don't offer the i7. I don't appreciate how you edited my post. I meant what I said. Macs have krappy ram too. macs suck!

Mac's warrant the higher price because of the little things that makes them great. Much better quality displays (if you want to talk about poor quality parts, look at almost any other laptop out there), more durable chassis, much longer batteries (7-10 hours), and more. Sure spec for spec Windows machines are cheaper, but not by much.

 

[speedyink]

Honestly for photo editing Mac or PC will both work great for it.

 

[Geoff]

You really don't appreciate what Mac's have to offer until you've used them for a while, I prefer them over Windows except for gaming.

 

[jarlmaster47]

I dont like mac os. its so counter-intuitive! windows or linux (any version too). mac os should stop while its behind

 

[The_Other_One]

My mother's a teacher and they loan out Macbooks to all the employees. Within the first year of having hers, her motherboard died, webcam worked intermittently, and battery quit holding any charge. This was a brand new Macbook. The next year, the DVD-RW would jam up when inserting disks.

I know someone else; a friend of a friend, who got a macbook. Apparently a key or two just quit working on the keyboard. I'm thinking some other things happened, but I know she's said she now wishes she'd gone with some other brand.

Another friend of a friend got a macbook more recently. She said her screen now looks like it has water behind it, but she know's it's never been exposed to water.

Needless to say, I'm not too keen on the idea of Macintosh. On top of all this, out of warranty work is exceptionally expensive and they are quite difficult to work on.

 

[jarlmaster47]

My mother's a teacher and they loan out Macbooks to all the employees. Within the first year of having hers, her motherboard died, webcam worked intermittently, and battery quit holding any charge. This was a brand new Macbook. The next year, the DVD-RW would jam up when inserting disks.

I know someone else; a friend of a friend, who got a macbook. Apparently a key or two just quit working on the keyboard. I'm thinking some other things happened, but I know she's said she now wishes she'd gone with some other brand.

Another friend of a friend got a macbook more recently. She said her screen now looks like it has water behind it, but she know's it's never been exposed to water.

Needless to say, I'm not too keen on the idea of Macintosh. On top of all this, out of warranty work is exceptionally expensive and they are quite difficult to work on.

exactly! see? macs suck. HARD

 

[FairDoos]

Edited.

I fail to see how that edit is true? PC has more functions than a Mac.

My opinion Macs are overpriced pieces of fasion hardware the only useful thing i have found to come from a Mac is its editing capabilities such as Image, Video and music editing.

Use a PC for everything else and there cheaper. I could go on but knowing this it would turn into a flame war..

 

[JlCollins005]

Really its all up to you i myself think macs are overpriced, yes they are great for video and photo editing but my pc works great for it to. For the price of a macbook you can get a pretty nice laptop with good specs that should cater to every one of your needs.

Not to mention like the_other said i have seen more macbooks fail than pc laptops and laptops are prolly about half the cost to fix.

 

[diduknowthat]

Where's tlarkin, there's so much misinformation and fan-boyism being thrown around in this thread it's not even funny.

 

[Drenlin]

^ He has some fanboyism himself, you know. Last time I posted an Asus G-series to demonstrate the price/performance difference between them, his arguments against it were so ridiculous and unfounded that I just gave up on the thread...


Macbooks are damned expensive for the hardware you get, IMO, but they are among the best on the market for battery life/performance, and their screens are great for photo editing once you calibrate them properly. Apple is rated a close #4 for reliability, behind Asus, Toshiba, and Sony, so they're pretty good there.