 Gina Cormier |
MAC or PC 32bit or 64bit I am curious as to what people prefer in a computer and processing? Do people have a MAC or PC? Do you have 32 bit or 64? Do you have a dedicated computer for your photography or not? I think I am out-growing my computer and wanted some imput.
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R K Stephenson |
This could become a very interesting discussion. =^0 I have both PC and MAC. I use the PC most of the time because of the $$ invested in software. Photoshop and Lightroom2 work very well on my 64-bit PC. I also have Lightroom3 beta on an iMac. It works quite well there, too. It is 32-bit and modest RAM but still fairly quick. Preference? I am working toward a dedicated system for photography, probably when I upgrade to the release version of LR3. It will be a MAC, assuming I can transfer the platform for most of my software licenses. But ... I'm not convinced that one is seriously better than the other. Yeah, Windows can be a pain, but MACs are comparatively more expensive. Whichever you choose, get a good monitor. Just my 2-bits. Cheers, RK
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Hi Gina, Both my 24" IMAC & 15.4" Macbook Pro are Duo-core Intel machines (2.4 & 2.1 GHZ processors) - 64bit with 4 GB RAM on each machine. I would love to get the new 27" Quad-Core IMAC but my current IMAC works so well that I dont have any real need to upgrade and may not for a few years to come. My IMAC doesn't have a lot of extra programs loaded on it because I use it primarily for my photography. My Macbook Pro has a few more programs & Apps loaded as I use this for travel & fun and as a temporary storage/upload device (w/LaCie & Iomega Firewire External portable hard drives) for my photography & travels on the road. On my trip to Europe in 2008, I only took a 500GB Lacie Rugged drive & some blank DVDs because I knew there were 11 other photographers joining me for the trip, so I just borrowed their MACs to download my photos from my CF cards onto my hard drive & burn a copy of the raw files to DVDs. I didn't care about emails or phone calls while on this trip so I purposely turned myself OFF to outside electronic devices :) Just Photography & Beer :D R.K. I just love my MACs. It was a constant PITA using PCs and I went through 3 laptops in 4 years with the last one dying and taking 800 photos with it - I had not backed them up yet when the the internal HD got fried. What an excruciating lesson that was.
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