I truly do see the advantages to Apple, and also the disadvantages. I like the open operating system of windows but that is more a carry over from my work as engineer, data acquisition, and all the options that are associated with my work over the last 30 yrs.
Being 100% honest, I haven't leveraged that in home use so either Apply or Windows will work. To have Apple's stable operating system and not have to "tune up" the windows every so often is a true advantage. Apple just seems to work, period; with few quirks.
And yet for the next 5 or so years as I finish out my career I will always have to work on a windows based machine. Do I want to have to work on 2 separate operating systems or just stay with "old familiar"? We be seeing! I will do a bit more research on what it takes to switch operating systems; I have "stuff" going back 30 years on windows and Dos before that.
Thanks for the input; I will continue to think and review.
Dan
I'm in the same boat, a few more years where I have to use Windows for work. Plus I have an astronomy interest that I hope to expand, and I think it is still the case where a lot of astronomy software is mostly Windows-based. I'm comfortable there too.
First, check out the Post Processing board, there are a couple of computer threads there. I think you want to have a discrete video card, probably at least 1GB. It used to be that Photoshop was optimized for NVIDIA, but I don't know that it really makes a big difference.
I would go for at least a 1TB SSD drive. A lot of laptops have two drives now, you could put your operating system on one and your photos on another. Also watch the ports it comes with, especially if you want to use an external monitor and hard drive. The smaller laptops seem to really skimp on ports these days. Mine has four USB ports and an HDMI and I use them all. Sometimes I have two hard drives connected, plus a card reader and my Logitech USB dongle, plus my BenQ monitor.
Mark
Yeah Mark...same canoe! I have SanDisk RAID1 Arrays to back up my D/ and E/. Technology is far outpacing my mental brain flow to get there!
I just HAD to buy my wife a new MacBook Pro laptop! Mac OS she has installed will not keep up with newest software. It is OSx
Dan
Mar 10, 2023 at 02:33 PM
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