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new camera requires new laptop whats best for photography PC or mac :wave:
 
OK serious reply, im 50 years long in the tooth and own a 27inch iMac which dual boots to Win 7 Pro, i love the screens of all Apple machines but get a little confused sometimes using the Apple OS, if i were 20 years younger i would say get a Macbook Pro and go with it, in fact i would still say get a Macbook Pro and install Windows for the best of both worlds, in laptop terms there isn't a windows based laptop which can come within 5 miles of a Macbook pro for image editing, the screens are awesome and colour perfect.

I however also own a windows laptop, a Dell E6500 with the same 1440x900 LG Phillips display as used in the Macbooks and it rocks, especially with a 64gb SSD in it, its anti glare and is half the cost of the Apple.
 
Gary Coyle said:
OK serious reply, im 50 years long in the tooth and own a 27inch iMac which dual boots to Win 7 Pro, i love the screens of all Apple machines but get a little confused sometimes using the Apple OS, if i were 20 years younger i would say get a Macbook Pro and go with it, in fact i would still say get a Macbook Pro and install Windows for the best of both worlds, in laptop terms there isn't a windows based laptop which can come within 5 miles of a Macbook pro for image editing, the screens are awesome and colour perfect.

I however also own a windows laptop, a Dell E6500 with the same 1440x900 LG Phillips display as used in the Macbooks and it rocks, especially with a 64gb SSD in it, its anti glare and is half the cost of the Apple.
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Apple with the imac 21.5" & imac 27" are almost the only vendor who is aiming an IPS screened product at the consumer market. Almost all other consumer orientated products are TN panel so Apple are definitely pushing boundaries with their imac range. It's a pity that they are unable to offer an IPS screened macbook pro, but I guess they simply cannot get the panels so we are stuck with TN based macbooks for the time being.
 
boliston said:
Apple with the imac 21.5" & imac 27" are almost the only vendor who is aiming an IPS screened product at the consumer market. Almost all other consumer orientated products are TN panel so Apple are definitely pushing boundaries with their imac range. It's a pity that they are unable to offer an IPS screened macbook pro, but I guess they simply cannot get the panels so we are stuck with TN based macbooks for the time being.
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But the Macbook Pro screen is still head and shoulders above any other laptop screen on the market, the LED backlighting is stunning, viewing angles are superb and the colours are as accurate as you can get.
 
Gary Coyle said:
But the Macbook Pro screen is still head and shoulders above any other laptop screen on the market, the LED backlighting is stunning, viewing angles are superb and the colours are as accurate as you can get.
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I'd say that they are about as good as TN panels get, but at the end of the day they will still only display 6 bit colour whereas an imac 21.5/27 will display 8 bit colour - quite a noticeable difference if you are doing photographic proofing/editing.
 
jamin100 said:
Once you go Mac, you don't go back. Fact
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Have to agree. I've been using DOS/Windows based PC's since they came with 5 1/4" FDD's but made the switch to a Mac 3 years ago when they brought out the MacBook Air.

A stunning looking machine that I knew I could fall back to running Windows XP if I didn't get on with OSX. 3 years on and looking to replace with another Mac and very rarely have the need to run Windows in a Virtual Machine, although can if I really need to.

The Mac just works and is ready to use within a second of opening the lid. Running the same install of OSX 3 years later and it still performs as quickly as it did when I got it. You'd have reinstalled Windows a few times over that period or it would have ground itself to a crawl!
 
Gary Coyle said:
OK serious reply, im 50 years long in the tooth and own a 27inch iMac which dual boots to Win 7 Pro.
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I'm 55 years young, whats Win 7 Pro :nuts:

to the Original thread starter -> Get a Mac, you won't regret it. ;)
 
i really should copy and paste this..

to the op.. neither is better. both have pros and cons, both crash (yes they do).

the only difference is the layout of the screen. best bet is to get yourself down PC world or similar and try OSX and Windows 7 and see what you prefer.

simples.
 
neil_g said:
i really should copy and paste this..

to the op.. neither is better. both have pros and cons, both crash (yes they do).

the only difference is the layout of the screen. best bet is to get yourself down PC world or similar and try OSX and Windows 7 and see what you prefer.

simples.
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Yep, that just about sums it up.

Also, the search function will get the OP all the answers needed.
 
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