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I was a fervent MacUser back in the 80's-mid 90's. I mean I was indoctrinated. Nothing could touch the mac! Back when most of you didn't even know what a modem was, I ran my own BBS (Bulletin Board System on a mac: a mini local Internet for hackers and people sharing commercial mac softwares and ran text-based online games all this was running on super duper fast 14.4 baud telephone line modem)
I switched and bought my first PC, a Dell in '97 because I wanted to play real games and apple was on its downfall back then before Steve came back and rescued the company. From then on I have always built my own computers (as well as many for friends, families and occasional customer.)
I'm a photographer, but as windows got better and better. I have to say Win7 is pretty good (to me)
I always refrained from buying a computer from Apple with programmed obsolescence built-in. Plus most of original Apple hardware sucks compared to what you can build yourself on Windows for cheap. It only has sex appeal and good looks but not real functionality superiority. I.E: Not fun to use every day.
In November my Q6400 intel CPU was getting long in the tooth so I decided to look for what hardware I could buy to build my next PC but that I could also try MacOSX on it.
So I bought the necessary hardware and installed SL, then Lion. Everything went quite smoothly (Remember, I know windows like the palm of my hand now from building so many gaming PCs all these years.) Nothing was really hard to get working by Microsoft standard anyway. Technically it almost seemed easier than to install and get win98 to work properly (for awhile at least).
Now comes the photography part:
On Windows I mainly use Lightroom, CS5 and Windows live photo gallery 2009 as my main picture managing and simple browsing/viewing app.
Although, I like features like faces in Aperture very much, GPS location tag. etc.
What I hate is having to import photos that are already on my HDD and sorted into a hierarchical fashion and easy to manage just using Windows explorer (not the browser,I would never touch that with a ten-foot poll, I use firefox on the PC, I mean Explorer the equivalent to finder on the mac)
So I use windows photo Gallery 2009 (hate newer version) and only import photos I want to tweak into Adobe Light Room. If I have no need to tweak 'em why import them ?
They are on my HDD afterall, why can't this simple behavior be achieved on the mac ?
Why can't I scroll with a mouse wheel or use the back forward/button through my pictures ? or use arrows or page up/down to move the next pic in the folder in Preview? Which is the basic picture viewing app in MacOSX ? You need to install Xee for that and it's not that good either.
Every single photo managing app I tried on the mac, just sucked for me. Believe me I tried a LOT! Even bought some from the app store.
Graphic Converter ain't good (requires too much digging and clicking to do have a useful behavior), ACDsee ain't good on the mac either.
Right-click menus in commercial apps like Aperture never seem to have the functions you really need, that are 'contextual'. Meaning, they pertain to what you want to do.
There are so many other things I just don't like about MaccOSX, that I would never suggest one of my 'not-so-computer-savvy customer' to buy a mac instead of a basic windows laptop or desktop.
Believe me, I tried. Fonts don't look as good, 3D performance suck on the same hardware. Sure, there are nice things here and there. But if you know your Windows, who needs MacOS ?
It's just NOT that good.
I switched and bought my first PC, a Dell in '97 because I wanted to play real games and apple was on its downfall back then before Steve came back and rescued the company. From then on I have always built my own computers (as well as many for friends, families and occasional customer.)
I'm a photographer, but as windows got better and better. I have to say Win7 is pretty good (to me)
I always refrained from buying a computer from Apple with programmed obsolescence built-in. Plus most of original Apple hardware sucks compared to what you can build yourself on Windows for cheap. It only has sex appeal and good looks but not real functionality superiority. I.E: Not fun to use every day.
In November my Q6400 intel CPU was getting long in the tooth so I decided to look for what hardware I could buy to build my next PC but that I could also try MacOSX on it.
So I bought the necessary hardware and installed SL, then Lion. Everything went quite smoothly (Remember, I know windows like the palm of my hand now from building so many gaming PCs all these years.) Nothing was really hard to get working by Microsoft standard anyway. Technically it almost seemed easier than to install and get win98 to work properly (for awhile at least).
Now comes the photography part:
On Windows I mainly use Lightroom, CS5 and Windows live photo gallery 2009 as my main picture managing and simple browsing/viewing app.
Although, I like features like faces in Aperture very much, GPS location tag. etc.
What I hate is having to import photos that are already on my HDD and sorted into a hierarchical fashion and easy to manage just using Windows explorer (not the browser,I would never touch that with a ten-foot poll, I use firefox on the PC, I mean Explorer the equivalent to finder on the mac)
So I use windows photo Gallery 2009 (hate newer version) and only import photos I want to tweak into Adobe Light Room. If I have no need to tweak 'em why import them ?
They are on my HDD afterall, why can't this simple behavior be achieved on the mac ?
Why can't I scroll with a mouse wheel or use the back forward/button through my pictures ? or use arrows or page up/down to move the next pic in the folder in Preview? Which is the basic picture viewing app in MacOSX ? You need to install Xee for that and it's not that good either.
Every single photo managing app I tried on the mac, just sucked for me. Believe me I tried a LOT! Even bought some from the app store.
Graphic Converter ain't good (requires too much digging and clicking to do have a useful behavior), ACDsee ain't good on the mac either.
Right-click menus in commercial apps like Aperture never seem to have the functions you really need, that are 'contextual'. Meaning, they pertain to what you want to do.
There are so many other things I just don't like about MaccOSX, that I would never suggest one of my 'not-so-computer-savvy customer' to buy a mac instead of a basic windows laptop or desktop.
Believe me, I tried. Fonts don't look as good, 3D performance suck on the same hardware. Sure, there are nice things here and there. But if you know your Windows, who needs MacOS ?
It's just NOT that good.