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05/05/2011 04:22:28 AM · #1 |
What would the knowledgeable DPC'ers recommend? Must be able to take the PS 5 and Lightroom 3 packages. Please?
I thought about the Mac book Pro, but all my programs are Windows, sad but true.
Will look at $1500 to $1700.
Please help the old man. |
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05/05/2011 04:29:11 AM · #2 |
Have the Macbook Pro and run Windows (natively) under bootcamp when you need to. You just hold in a key when booting up and choose your OS.
Previously I've owned the (then) fastest PC notebooks in the world. Heavy, noisy, dreadful battery life, hot, and fantastically unreliable. I once paid £3000 for a high end PC laptop, went back to manufacturer four times, never really got fixed - the OS kept refusing to boot. Got a total of about 10 days use out of it. At the time I got my first MacBook Pro, it was running Windows faster than just about any PC laptop and had a 4 hour battery life - my PC laptop was 40 minutes!
On my second MacBook Pro now.
I'll predict though that you won't use the PC side of your Mac nearly as much as you think you will.
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05/05/2011 04:59:18 AM · #3 |
... in defence of the PC the only real horrid experience I have ever encountered is with PCs/Laptops running (sic) Vista.
Windows 7 I have to say is turning out to be rather good indeed.
I am pretty impressed with Sony Vaios .... though in a slightly contradictory slant to what I have just said I would agree with paulbtlw go for a Macbook Pro, pretty much all artists seem to use Macs and with bootcamp you can hedge your bets
what I would say though is only buy a laptop you have actually seen and make sure that you are happy with the display since laptops can be prone to quite marked colour changes as ones head moves even slightly. |
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05/05/2011 05:32:19 AM · #4 |
| Thank you very much. I will go look at the mac Book this weekend and also search boot-camp. Nice of you. |
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05/05/2011 05:55:58 AM · #5 |
| I also believe that Adobe allow you to transfer licenses from PC to Mac. |
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05/05/2011 06:57:20 AM · #6 |
| I use a Toshiba Satellite P300-150 for all my editing, I run Photoshop CS5, Bridge and Capture one 4 perfectly (all at once) |
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05/05/2011 07:07:06 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by paulbtlw:
I also believe that Adobe allow you to transfer licenses from PC to Mac. |
Yes, they will. I had PS CS5 on my PC laptop and when I got my Mac I called and asked if I could transfer it. They will have you sign a form stating you will remove and destroy your Windows version, then they will send you the Mac version. |
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05/05/2011 07:10:25 AM · #8 |
| I use a Lenovo T61P Thinkpad, but it's been said that the T61P was the last "true" thinkpad and the newer ones aren't as bombproof. In any case, I've been happy with it, beyond the fact that it's 32 bit, but I've also had it for a few years. |
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05/05/2011 07:27:57 AM · #9 |
| i stopped editing on a laptop when i realized the screen was causing me problems. |
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05/05/2011 08:05:02 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by mike_311:
i stopped editing on a laptop when i realized the screen was causing me problems. |
I use a laptop but with a separate monitor. While on a trip once I only had the laptop and the colors were so off it wasn't worth the time. |
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05/05/2011 09:41:53 AM · #11 |
Sorry to say that after 20+ years with Dos/Windows I finally switched to Macbook Pro.
I've always had the most current Windows PC/Laptop and still had long bootup times, long app starting, freezes, crashes slowdowns when doing anything related to graphics, music or video editing...etc...
I currently tell people - If you just want to produce letters and spreadsheets, or just casually surf the web, then spend a few hundred on a PC/Windows Laptop. If you plan on doing any Photoshop, music production or video production...get a MAC. |
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