But how are you going to control your computer?
Aside from a wired keyboard and mouse?

The wires would make it a cluttered setup again.

Neil vN

The geek in me thinks this is so cool:
a couple getting married in the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan.

Neil vN

Kathleen .. re the software, you could contact Adobe, and for a very small fee, transfer your Windows license for a Mac license for your Photoshop software.

Lightroom is cross-platform, so no drama and extra cost there.

I took a hit in having to buy another copy of CS4 because I wanted Photoshop on my Mac as well. (I still think it is extortion from Adobe.)

Neil vN

I’m PC and will purchase a new desktop within the next month because of the need to move into video. Was looking at the Canon Vixia’s (HFS10)and also the Sony XR150. Also looking at Premiere.

My concern was also the $$ hit from Adobe for the new creative suite, PS and Lightroom if I were to switch to MAC, now I know, thanks Neil. Also didn’t know
about the Canon Premiere – Windows 7 glitch, bummer.

Neil, that was one expensive switch.

Kathleen

I need to comment on the ‘$$$’ thing. : )

For myself, and for my business, the need to get the job done and do so efficiently, outweighs the need and time to find the less expensive version.

As an example:
In my description in the beginning .. I could’ve spent time to find the right codec and make Adobe Elements 7 work for creating video clips for the website. It was just simpler to buy something that works out of the box. I have things to do. Other things than mess around with the computer hardware and software.

The summary: I’m a photographer, not a computer specialist.

This will also explain why I picked the 24″ Apple Cinema display over potentially better choices. I simply didn’t have the time to do extended homework on this. Here’s a display that works great. I’ll take it. Thanks!

Neil vN

First: There is a lot of excellent hardware out there from IBM,Apple,HP and other high class vendors.

Second: There are different desktop operating systems…

I think it is safe to call Mac OS the best desktop operating system even though I don’t use it myself. Does anybody really wonder? Apple has to support IT’s Hardware. Microsoft has to support 99% of the Hardware everybody else is building…
Apple controls most of the peripheral hardware you wanna use together with your System: iPod, iPhone, AirPort,…
They just can make everything match and make them perfect complements. Microsoft just can’t…

But there is a price for all that magic:
- money $$$
- flexibility or call it freedom. Good luck everybody writing your own applications for an iPad without a jailbreak…

In a way Linux is a lot less “evil” than Microsoft is a lot less “evil” than Apple…

For now I’ll stick with Windows 7. It is a quite good system.
Might be that I switch to Apple when I can afford it…

Funny thing about this. I bought Aperture 2 on Saturday (Feb 6), and three days later they announce Aperture 3. For the same price. Or $99 upgrade from Aperture 2. I hadn’t even cracked open the manual yet.

The Apple store where I bought the software was very nice, and without fuss gave me a full refund on the opened software. So now I’ve put in an order for Aperture 3. Yay!

I have noticed some troubling feedback on the forums where users of MacBook Pro machines complain how slow certain things in Aperture 3 run.

We’ll see.

Neil vN