Microsoft and I are simply not headed in the same direction. I've looked at Linux, and while it'll do what I NEED it to do, I don't believe my wife will ever warm up to it. I think she will be happier in an eco-system like Mac or Windows, and Windows has shredded my confidence in it. I've purchased one Mac Mini 4 to experiment with, And assuming it works out, I will buy another, or perhaps a more advanced Mac product.
Once you go Mac, you’ll never go back!
I'm an m43s photographer. I'm not gonna argue that with anyone. It works for me and my gear is paid for. My question at the moment is about photo software. Does anyone know how well OM Workspace works with Mac?
Nope.
Are there any software titles that are a bit problematic on the Mac? Any that might be problematic on a 16 GB ram on Mac Mini 4? I'm planning moving my home folder to a high-speed 2 TB external drive. This works reasonably well with Linux, and my research indicates Mac and Linux clearly share a Unix heritage.
16GB RAM is a bit meager, but if you keep a lot of free space on your boot drive it shouldn’t be a problem. Apple says 10% minimum. I try for 20%.
That I didn't know. I knew it was not good to push it to the max whatever you use. Adobe also recommends 20%. Unofficial rule of thumb is 100GB. My storage has never pushed into that 100GB regardless. That's good to know as a general statement.
At some point, I shifted a lot of files off my MacBook Pro SSD to an external RAID to keep space open. My Music Library alone is over 600GB.
That was a real waste. Photos, too. I work on them off the external drive. Ones I actually want to use go onto the Mac itself.
It’s a PITA, but Apple internal SSDs are expensive. External storage, not so much.
