Why a Mac and not PC

[Nikonsyncro]

Paid a fellow Photographer a visit and he has a new mac pro something laptop.

As a PC user and never worked on a mac I see he is using a program called Apeture to convert raw files and do basic editing to his photos. This seemed easy and good especialy all the archiving and email feutures built in.

Now I wonder am I missing something? and have the following questions

1. Can you network a mac to a pc computer and share files?

2. When one does buy a mac how many other programs come with it like word, outlook ect. or similar.
3. Is a mac of the same value realy faster and better than a pc?

4. If and when comunicating with other people via email or the internet that have pc is it a problem?
5.Does this Apeture program convert most raw files on the market?
6. How user friendly is a mac?
8. Can one customise the mac opperating system like I can with windows?

A reply from someone who has gone from PC to Mac will be apreciated

Thanks

Deon

 

[BAK]

I went from Mc to PC because of a client requirment, and have semi-regretted it ever since.

Windows keeps getting closer to being a Mac, but it still is ugly and messy.

You can e-mail files back and forth from Mac to Windows. Depending on the file type, it is smooth, or not.

JPEG photyos are fine.

Wprtd" is a specific Microsoft wordprocessing program.

Microsoft makes Moicrosoft Office for Windows, and Microsoft Office for Mac, and documents created by this program can be easily transferred between Mac and Windows machines.

Any Mac comes with a bunch of software for making movies, writing, making music, editing photos, etc. For lots of people, the "feee" software is all that is needed.

Adobe software cxomes in Mac and Windows versions. Again, esasily transferred.

Mac has its own internet browser.

Should someone with a good Windows machine and lots of software sell it for a Mac? Probably not. Should a genuine professional photographer with an old Windows machine look at a Mac when ti is time to upgrade? Probably.

Do Macs cost more than Windows machnes? Maybe, maybe not, depending on what software you need to buy for Windows that comes with a Mac, and whether you are comparing name brand Windows machines with Macs, or no-name garage-built machines.

But Accuras cost more than Hondas and Lincilns cost more than Chevrolets.

Most professional design studios use Macs and have for a decade; that makes Macs more attractive to photographers working with designers.

BAK

 

[benoit]

I use both. You won't have any more problem with a Mac than a PC and communication between machines or the net is not an issue either.

As BAK mentioned, most graphic people use Mac. Many would not even consider using a PC. While I understand where they are coming from, that reaction is old school and actually many have had to adapt to both with their jobs. It is true however that if you are a professional many graphic people will expect you to use Mac. It does not mean you can't have PCs, just mention your Mac if you have too.

I started with PCs and used Macs at work at a previous job. Now I use both. I do tend to prefer Macs. The transition I think is easier from PC to Mac than the opposite. You can't go wrong by having both.

The new Intel based (Mac) machines are what you are reffering to. I personally am holding any Mac purchase until Mac has turned it's high end line to Intel but mostly I am waiting for the software designed for Macs to be up to speed in order to use the full potential of the machine. For now they are like NASCAR running the restriction plates. What happened here is that Apple turned to Intel to make faster machines, but the software manufacturer have not had the time to catch up. As a result, you can run OSx (that's your Windows XP for a Mac) on the new machines running on Intel, but you can't get the potential full speed the Intel chip is designed for. It's a temporary annoyance.

 

[RMbA]

1. Can you network a mac to a pc computer and share files?

I've been using both Macs and PCs for years--networked. File transfers are seemless using PC MacLAN software, which you'll find at

http://store.ca.com/dr/v2/ec_Main.Entry17c?V1=674939&PID=674939&PN=1&SP=10023&SID=35715&CUR=840&CID=184271&DSP=&PGRP=0&ABCODE=&CACHE_ID=184271

 

[Daniel Soh]

Being running mac for the longest ever. Both for my office and home. The perks of owning a Mac is second to none. What important for me is the data reliability, the amount of PC virus that grows a day is huge, including keystroke adware and etc.

Mac may not offer you the same flexibility of hardware upgrades like a PC (Graphic card, SLI or etc). But the simplicity of usage, colour accuracy, good post processing software, some imaging software running faster on Mac (eg. Nikon NX runs faster on my office mac than my wife's PC), good data cruching ability and etc are the reasons why designs house choose Mac, unlike what many would like to call it 'Herd Instinct', it is not.

 

[Doug MacMillan]

I think others have done a good job answering most of your questions.

I had to dash off a quick note because I'm sitting at the bar in our kitchen typing on an IMac Pro notebook that's on our home wireless network along with two Windows PCs. It's got Office and shares files seamlessly with the PCs. Haven't tried any photo software other than the free software that comes with the Mac. It's nicely designed and works well.

I've spent 20 years in IT and make my living with Windows based PCs. My wife got this notebook from work (for free!) and I have to say I'm very impressed. I'd love to get a honkin' big desktop with a 30" Apple Cinema display. If I had the jack, I think that's where I'd go for a personal machine.

Doug

 

[wil saxon]

as I've been thinking about my next purchase. There is certainly industry pressure for me to lean towards a Mac, but I've worked in I.T and have foudn PC's to be quite good. All things break down and have reliability issues at some point. Looking after your data and protecting it from viruses is something I believe falls on your shoulders, i.e backing up frequently etc.

I find it strange that from where I come from (and I'm not sure if it's the same for you guys) that there seems to be a snobbish attitude towards people like myself who only use PC's. A lot of the fashion industry and wedding photography business over here are dominated by Mac users. I walked into an apple shop here in Sydney a few months ago and asks the sales assistant point blank what advantages I would have switching over and was a little disappointed that the biggest point he could come up with was that there were less viruses on the Mac platform. I don't doubt that Apple has some good hardware (and that this particular sales assistant was just clueless), but I'd love to see this thread develop so that I can see some reasons why switching over to the Mac is advantageous for our line of work as Photographers. I know that colour correction is one of the big pluses, but would be keen to hear more reasons apart from that and the low risk of virus infection.

regards,

Wil

 

[Kendall Helmstetter Gelner]

1. Can you network a mac to a pc computer and share files?

Yes, Macs come with built in Windows file sharing that can be enabled - so you can mount a PC drive or share a drive that a PC can mount.

2. When one does buy a mac how many other programs come with it
like word, outlook ect. or similar.

New macs usually come with iLife, which includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD (for creating DVD's with menus), iTunes and GarageBand. Depending on what you do some of those may be of use, iDVD is great for slideshows and iMovie is pretty good for working with video. Lots of people use iPhoto but if you're already thinking about Aperture it probably will not be enough for you.

Macs also come with a very good mail program called Mail.app. It has really good spam detection capibilities and some pretty powerful features for a free email app - I use it all the time for my email needs.

For word processing, macs come with a program called "TextEdit". Here you are probably thinking of WordPad or Notepad on the PC, but TextEdit is much nicer - it can read and write Microsoft Word documents and has more powerful formatting features than WordPad. I use TextEdit for most short documents I create, where I would have used Word were I on a PC.

Of course you can also buy Microsoft Office for the Mac, some third party Mac sellers may bundle this but it will not come by default on a mac ordered through Apple.

3. Is a mac of the same value realy faster and better than a pc?

That's really in the eye of the beholder, and so I'll not touch that one... I'll just say that I prefer the mac for productivity reasons.

Here I think is a good point to mention that one the new Macbooks you can use a program called "Parallells Desktop" to run Windows at the same time as OS X on the same Mac, and thus use Windows programs at the same time. Make sure to max out memory (2GB) if you go this route. It can help keep familair applications closer at hand.

4. If and when comunicating with other people via email or the
internet that have pc is it a problem?

I've never had a problem with this.

5.Does this Apeture program convert most raw files on the market?

Yes, it handles of course Nikon and Cannon files quite well. The largest camera maker that is not yet supported that seems to surprise most people is Fuji (S2 & S3), they may be adding that eventually. RAW conversion quality is quite good now and Aperture allows you to fine-tune the conversion in regards to sharpening and noise reduction applied.

You can get a full list of supported cameras at:

http://www.apple.com/aperture/raw/

(also check out the video tutorials there, very nice to get a feel for what APerture can do).

6. How user friendly is a mac?

Again, a very hard question to answer. I use both daily and prefer how the Mac operates, to me it has fewer daily frustrations. At first of course for a newcomer it will be harder to use because it's not what you are used to.

8. Can one customise the mac opperating system like I can with
windows?

How do you customize Windows today? There are many ways to customize the Mac as well, though the customizations people do are often not quite the same since the OS itself has different abilities. For instance, I use Google desktop on a PC but have no need for it on a Mac since the Spotlight search works well and the mac has Widget support already buit in.

A reply from someone who has gone from PC to Mac will be apreciated

My switching was done years ago; But as I said I use both daily (mac at home, PC at work). Hopefully that is close enough. I have not had to live with a dual enviroment for some time but I have had need to share data at times between home and work.

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[Daniel Soh]

Several factors that might help you swing our way....

1) The last thing you might want on your desk is a PC with a tower casing, that would take up a lot of real estate on your desk. The iMac firstly, is so small and everything you need is contained within the monitor.
Smaller footprint equals a less cluttered desktop and a happier user.

2) Loads of free installed software, iLife '06, contains all the softwares you would even need for intermediate editing of raws, creating a photobook, slideshows that can be exported to iDVD, so that you can get a more professional looking album, good for wedding photographers or videographers. iMovie, you can edit HD video. Have you seen the stuff, you get for editing images and video from Microsoft.... You would have to spend some more money to get softwares that Mac Users gets for free, if you chose the PC route.

3) Less likely to get the PC 'Blue Screen' of death. My wife's PC has crashed and stalled several times, not saying that, that wouldn't happen on a Mac, just that it happens a whole lot less.

4) Now with the Duo Core, you can run both PC and Mac OS, how cool is that? Mac OS gets better every major upgrade and it happens more often (every 2 years, give or take). Microsoft Vista (former Longhorn) has been delayed numerous times and the current XP has been around since late 2000.

Lastly, virus and spyware, even Symantec admits the Mac OS is a better system in today's virus infected computer environment (see link). My personal experience, most designs or advertising companies choose a Mac platform not because it is the 'IN' thing to be seen with. But because we cannot afford a 'downed' system or worse a 'downed' network. This factor coupled with colour reproduction accuracy and major software support in Desktop Publishing and digital imaging, it would be a wiser choice from a business point of view.
I know because my business running 4 macs and a Mac notebook.

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/07/macinenterprise_mac_os_x_virus.html?www.dailytech.com

 

[AussiePhil]

Comments inline below....

Several factors that might help you swing our way....

1) The last thing you might want on your desk is a PC with a tower
casing, that would take up a lot of real estate on your desk. The
iMac firstly, is so small and everything you need is contained
within the monitor.
Smaller footprint equals a less cluttered desktop and a happier user.

but most power users here will promote the G5.. oh that comes in a tower case takes up the same room as a PC, has the same if not more fans than the average overclockers machine and therefore is a bit noiseir than it should be, though the switch to Core Duo should help here, again the same chip used in a PC.

No advantage

2) Loads of free installed software, iLife '06, contains all the
softwares you would even need for intermediate editing of raws,
creating a photobook, slideshows that can be exported to iDVD, so
that you can get a more professional looking album, good for
wedding photographers or videographers. iMovie, you can edit HD
video. Have you seen the stuff, you get for editing images and
video from Microsoft.... You would have to spend some more money to
get softwares that Mac Users gets for free, if you chose the PC
route.

However, Photoshop needs to be bought for either OS, Apeture is Mac only but has been panned in a number of reviews i have read comparing it to Adobe lightroom, again more cost regardless of OS.

For office replacement you can use openoffice or staroffice on the PC, so still no cost advantage to the MAC, however an advantage from a pain in the rear to download and install either app.

Mac, slight advantage.

3) Less likely to get the PC 'Blue Screen' of death. My wife's PC
has crashed and stalled several times, not saying that, that
wouldn't happen on a Mac, just that it happens a whole lot less.

We have over 10,000 seats of windows 2000 and just migrating to XP, BSOD is just a non event for us and most instances have been faulty RAM, easy to find and replace.

To me this is no advantage.

4) Now with the Duo Core, you can run both PC and Mac OS, how cool
is that? Mac OS gets better every major upgrade and it happens more
often (every 2 years, give or take). Microsoft Vista (former
Longhorn) has been delayed numerous times and the current XP has
been around since late 2000.

You buy a MAC to run a microsoft OS... that's not actually cool.

OS release schedules mean not a whole lot unless you have a feature or bug you need fixed.
And really OS-X is just unix at it's core......

Still i'll grant a slight advantage to the MAC (Apple)

Lastly, virus and spyware, even Symantec admits the Mac OS is a
better system in today's virus infected computer environment (see
link). My personal experience, most designs or advertising
companies choose a Mac platform not because it is the 'IN' thing to
be seen with. But because we cannot afford a 'downed' system or
worse a 'downed' network. This factor coupled with colour
reproduction accuracy and major software support in Desktop
Publishing and digital imaging, it would be a wiser choice from a
business point of view.
I know because my business running 4 macs and a Mac notebook.

OK, fianlly a clear win to the MAC, but then if you don't download suspect software and stay away from adware laden p2p software or try and find software cracks you probable will have no viruses on your PC either, all my home PC's live behind a LINUX firewall, all have antivirus, how many viruses actually reported found. 10. this is on five machines at home all were due to the websites visited at the time.

With multi Ghz processors and from the same manufacturer at that the difference between a PC and MAC becomes more academic and personal as time goes on.

The first personal computer i used was an apple macintosh before buying my first IBM XT with twin floppies.

--
Cheers and best wishes
Phil
Galleries at
http://photos.incanberra.biz/main.php

 

[birdpix]

I'm die hard dos dinosaur and have only tinkered on macs a few times but I did recently learn that not all files transfer well between Win and Mac machines the hard way...

Book division of a publisher client uses PC and wants tif format files via FTP for submissions. Done it many times with no issues with them.

BUT, the Magazine division of that same publisher is all mac based (self described "mac chick" staff) but did not specify that in submission requirements. So, against a tight deadline I uploaded a couple gigs of images only to get panic stricken editioral assistant calling me the next day saying they were unreadable and that all the files she tried from me would not open. It took me the better part of the day to realize they were not very tech savy in that part of the biz and that I needed to be sending "mac format" TIF files. Jpg's were no problem, but TIF files were. Once I resaved all my images in mac tif format, she was able to use them.

Not a vote for or against Mac (I think they are pretty computers and love all the cool stuff that starts with the letter i) but just a reminder to find out your clients exact format needs as not everything plays well together!
--
Eric in Florida

 

[Fullerphoto]

This web page on the apple website will answer most of your questions:

http://www.apple.com/getamac/

I bought my first Mac (macbook pro) two months ago. I also have a dual core 3ghz pentium desktop. They both talk to each other wirelessly but if i need more transfer speed i link them with an ethernet cable.

The mac notebook hasn't crashed since i bought it and most of the time i put it to sleep and go back to where i left off the next day - it wakes up and is instantly usable in under a 1 second. I did this everyday for a week without any memory leakeage or speed depreciation.

My PC is now only really used as storage to be honest. It's a fast PC, but after using OSX for two months it gets depressing going back to XP, so i try not to.

I used PCs for 15 years and to be honest the hardware is fantastic, i never had a problem with it and very much enjoyed building my own desktops. If i could run Mac OSX on my PC i would without hesitation. To be honest it's XP that spoils the fun.

I love the photo shoot, but always found the post production a little tiresome; now i enjoy the full process.

 

[Daniel Soh]

Good points, things to take note of, I have a 2GHz Dual Processor G5. The new iMac is already a lot faster than what I have, technology just drove past and waved at me. Unless it is the new MacPro, most knowledgable users would not recommend the current DP G5s, for 80% of users including professional photographers and graphic artists, the iMac would do fine and serve most of their needs with room to spare.

No doubt it is the same chip, that doesn't make it a PC nor does it retain the quarks and frustrations of a PC system. If it is a more stable system that uses the same components as a PC, is not an advantage, then what is?

Photoshop is a must for serious photographers and designs house, but your repute of not having a cost saving in this instants, would it be for commercial usage or home use? Kindly list down, for home use what software comes FREE with Microsoft OS, and are they nearly as good out of the box as the ones from Apple that comes pre-installed. Are you stating that Microsoft office comes free with the PC OS? Apple has textedit that allows simple word document or editing or word documents.

Can you say that in a month period, none of your PC computers hangs or just goes wonky? The amount of abuses my DP G5 goes through a week, would bring a PC to it's knees, for a fact, working on a 200-300mb 16bit CMYK photoshop file, then importing it to a Illustrator file, when background printing or raw conversion is going on... Perhaps, you should try that on your PC. And see how it goes. These are just some file specs that my office works on, the example stated is the biggest we've worked on and the average size would be around 80mb - 160mb (Collectives). So if you are only using it for word, excel or intermittant image processing, the advantage would not be clear.

Can a PC run a Mac Tiger OS? Having a computer that runs both OS that are currently the mainstream in the industry is cool, is it not?

With the Intel processor, that should level the playing field, but has it? The new MacPro would be a blast. There will always be PC and Mac zealous supporters, but if you think PC works for you, but all means. No one has the right to tell you not to. It's a free world...

Cheers

 

[Al Iguana182686]

"With multi Ghz processors and from the same manufacturer at that the difference between a PC and MAC becomes more academic and personal as time goes on."

the difference is the operating system, rather than the hardware. I was reading a piece about benchmarking systems, where they used a PC, an Intel Mac, and a PC running OSX (illegally). The Intel Mac and the PC running OSX were both faster than the PC running Windows (even though it was the same hardware). If only Apple would release OSX to the general PC public... oh well.

I'm a Mac fan from a workflow point of view. Everything is connected on a Mac (or is easily connected via Automator).

--
Al
Blackwood, Wales, UK

 

[echelon2004]

Paid a fellow Photographer a visit and he has a new mac pro
something laptop.
As a PC user and never worked on a mac I see he is using a program
called Apeture to convert raw files and do basic editing to his
photos. This seemed easy and good especialy all the archiving and
email feutures built in.

Now I wonder am I missing something? and have the following questions

1. Can you network a mac to a pc computer and share files?

Yes you can. Only a few things are hard to do, some printers don't like being shared if the Mac is being the hosting computer. Network printers work fine though.

2. When one does buy a mac how many other programs come with it
like word, outlook ect. or similar.

Enough stuff to do most normal things and some things that aren't really normal but at least fun

3. Is a mac of the same value realy faster and better than a pc?

Sometimes they are, sometimes not.
If the software you use is designed primarely for mac, it will run very fast.

This first generation of intel macs do not run most softwares faster then would an equivalent pc.

Better? Depends. If you try running a virus it wont run at all

4. If and when comunicating with other people via email or the
internet that have pc is it a problem?

No. It can be a problem of course if you send an attachement that won't run on mac.

5.Does this Apeture program convert most raw files on the market?

No ides, but I'm sure the information can be found at your local apple site.

6. How user friendly is a mac?

Quite friendly. They did design the graphical user interface most companies, such as microsoft, have tried to "copy" ever since.

8. Can one customise the mac opperating system like I can with
windows?

The appearence and how things are responding on your user input can be customized. The actual interaction with UNIX and the hardware can be customized in a much lesser degree.

A reply from someone who has gone from PC to Mac will be apreciated

I have gone from mac to pc to mac to both.

--
Anders

Some of my pictures can be seen at;
http://teamexcalibur.se/US/usindex.html

event photography and photo journalism

 

[echelon2004]

one of the reasons why mac have an advantage is the ability to use more than one monitor which have been calibrated.

There are also some safety issues, for some reason OS-X don't stress the IDE drives as much as windows does, with less faults as a result.

I don't know why that is, and I have no scientific arguments proving that that is the case, but my own experiences and my friends/collegues say it is like that.

Windows is fine as well of course.

I use them at home, they are very stabile, no crashes, no viruses, no reboots, no problems at all. Not since I had two IDE drives replaced two years ago...
--
Anders

Some of my pictures can be seen at;
http://teamexcalibur.se/US/usindex.html

event photography and photo journalism

 

[AussiePhil]

Good points, things to take note of, I have a 2GHz Dual Processor
G5. The new iMac is already a lot faster than what I have,
technology just drove past and waved at me. Unless it is the new
MacPro, most knowledgable users would not recommend the current DP
G5s, for 80% of users including professional photographers and
graphic artists, the iMac would do fine and serve most of their
needs with room to spare.

OK, point conceded, but remember that you can build or have built a SFF PC as well, personally i like the big black box with room for extra storage drives etc.

No doubt it is the same chip, that doesn't make it a PC nor does it
retain the quarks and frustrations of a PC system. If it is a more
stable system that uses the same components as a PC, is not an
advantage, then what is?

Quirks and frustation, if all the hardware is equal, or nearly so with the apple unique bits so OSX can't run on generic machines, then is purely operating system based.

The hardware does not maketh the computer the OS does, if Apple released OSX for general consumption it may well have as many issues as the various flavours of windows does on the countless hardware variations.

Photoshop is a must for serious photographers and designs house,
but your repute of not having a cost saving in this instants, would
it be for commercial usage or home use? Kindly list down, for home
use what software comes FREE with Microsoft OS, and are they nearly
as good out of the box as the ones from Apple that comes
pre-installed. Are you stating that Microsoft office comes free
with the PC OS? Apple has textedit that allows simple word document
or editing or word documents.

XP and Vista have Wordpad, allows simple document creation.

The OP wants to use commercial software that has to be purchased regardless of OS - mute point on what ships with the OS.

Can you say that in a month period, none of your PC computers hangs
or just goes wonky? The amount of abuses my DP G5 goes through a
week, would bring a PC to it's knees, for a fact, working on a
200-300mb 16bit CMYK photoshop file, then importing it to a
Illustrator file, when background printing or raw conversion is
going on... Perhaps, you should try that on your PC. And see how it
goes. These are just some file specs that my office works on, the
example stated is the biggest we've worked on and the average size
would be around 80mb - 160mb (Collectives). So if you are only
using it for word, excel or intermittant image processing, the
advantage would not be clear.

Ummm.. it is nothing unusual for me to have over a 1gb of raw files open in photshop whilst doing photo edits from a shoot under a beta copy of Windows Vista... this is a slow AMD 3000 - 64 with 2Gb of Ram.

None of this brings the machine to it's knees.. at least be fair and compare machines of similar spec, dual core or multi processor etc.

Can a PC run a Mac Tiger OS? Having a computer that runs both OS
that are currently the mainstream in the industry is cool, is it
not?

In a very geek way yes, but if OSX is perfect and has ALL your required software why do you even need to talk about Windows let alone run it, seems like an admission of something (envy).

That particular argument always make me smile and at times laugh at people who use it to justify buying a MAC.
"Oh i need a Mac to run Windows" - Du'h

With the Intel processor, that should level the playing field, but
has it? The new MacPro would be a blast. There will always be PC
and Mac zealous supporters, but if you think PC works for you, but
all means. No one has the right to tell you not to. It's a free
world...

Cheers

Yes as i said before, each to his own - but at least make the positive arguments for using or buying one or the other fair and sensible.

The only real argument is will there be a productivity benefit from one or the other, if i said i will use workflow x and you told me that a mac would cut all processing time by 25% then a value could be put on this.

the completely biased "OSX crashes less than windows" whilst easily proven has no real basis because the hardware baseline and quality is completely unknown on the sample set of windows machines.

Yes for 10,000 Windows 2000 desktops at work there has not been one single support call to the service desk in the last 6 months for a BSOD, doesn't mean there hasn't been any i guess but none have been reported.

Of my personally five machines the last BSOD was in NT4 days and only due to faulty memory.

BTW - various Mac forums (yes i read a lot) as well as professionals have often commented on system freezes or general instability of the apple OS.

--
Cheers and best wishes
Phil
Galleries at
http://photos.incanberra.biz/main.php

 

[AlanG]

I think there is no doubt you can do what you want on either platform.

I have been using only PCs. I carry two laptops on each job - a small Sharp laptop with a 12 inch screen and an even smaller Acer Convertible Tablet PC with a 10 inch screen as a backup.

After about three years of using the Sharp almost every day, I can't remember a single system crash except for one due to a bug in a specific program. Never had the blue screen. (I don't use the Acer as much.)

So here is what interests me - small lightweight laptops because I shoot tethered and move around a lot. So I can hold the laptop in one hand and the tripod/camera in the other as I move to different rooms in a house. The 12inch powerbook looks ok but is still a lot bigger than some of the choices in the PC world. (Not only the ones you'll find at CompUSA) but the ones by Fujitsu, Motion, and many others.) The Panasonic Toughbooks are pretty special too.

There are no Mac tablet machines which is a shame. The tablet pcs are great for tethered shooting and let you retouch via pen directly on the screen just as you would with a Waccom pad. The Motion, Fujitsu and some other machines are available with a display that can be viewed in full sunlight.

Here is one of the top makers of tablets:
http://motioncomputing.com/products/tablet_pc_le.asp

There are other really amazing small pcs. When it comes to laptops, notebooks, and subnotebooks, there are many more choices in the pc world. Besides tablet pcs, there are also convertible pcs that can be changed from tablet to notebook function.

--
Alan Goldstein

http://www.goldsteinphoto.com

 

[AperturePro]

With Intel Mac running XP, it is all the same. Run whatever OS you like.

There is no problem with any of your questions and the Apple computers.

And, they just are great looking and impressive on your desk.... a feature
of vanity, but one I really appreciate.

We have laptops from the early 90's that still run just fine...... wow.

 

[Kendall Helmstetter Gelner]

BUT, the Magazine division of that same publisher is all mac based
(self described "mac chick" staff) but did not specify that in
submission requirements. So, against a tight deadline I uploaded a
couple gigs of images only to get panic stricken editioral
assistant calling me the next day saying they were unreadable and
that all the files she tried from me would not open. It took me the
better part of the day to realize they were not very tech savy in
that part of the biz and that I needed to be sending "mac format"
TIF files. Jpg's were no problem, but TIF files were. Once I
resaved all my images in mac tif format, she was able to use them.

That's very odd, since both Photoshop and other programs should be able to read both Mac and PC oriented TIFF files - it just affects the order of bytes in the image. I have moved TIFF files back and forth between PC and Mac systems for some time... like you say, they were not technical but I am really curious what problem they ran into.

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