Dun1 wrote:
If you intend to use a lap top to edit photos, you can go with a Mac Book Pro, or invest in the "alsorans" in the Windows category, and have to say every time you use an HP, ASUS, or Lenova, wow I wished I had taken the advice I asked for and got, and cut to the chase and bought a Apple Mac Book Pro. It's not the eternal question Mac vs PC etc.
I still have the first Mac Book 17" G4 edition and use it on a regular basis,
I have a 15" Mac Book Pro.
During the same period I have had several Windows based laptop, and no I don't ride the gotta have the latest Windows laptop treadmill, I was trying to find a Windows OS machine that would compete with a Mac Book not only in the speed category, but the display.
My question also is during your commute are you driving yourself or riding ?
Why invest in a laptop to download the images and then return home to a tower to edit your images, memory cards and a card readers are very inexpensive compared to buy a laptop to store or "download" your images and transport.
You might also include tablets in your process, to store you images,
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While I agree with you about this user's needs and about an Apple being best for this application (mostly because of the Retina display), after 30 years of back and forth bickering I still don't understand why every Apple users has to act like they're on the pinnacle of the technology world mountain and all us other poor peons are cheapskate trolls who aren't yet enlightened to the glory and wonderment of God Steve Jobs' creations.
For example, there is no need to call a Windows laptop an "also ran" because Windows laptops have been around as long as Apple laptops - if not longer. I remember Compaq making a large heavy mobile computer that I wouldn't want sitting on my lap for very long before there was an Apple mobile computer. I think even Commodore had mobile computers before Apple.
There is also no need to name HP, ASUS, or Lenova like you're talking down about those brands. The motherboards, other hardware, and Microsoft OS on all of them are virtually identical with very minor differences other than external and company preferred features. I have an HP laptop that is 6 years old and runs like new with 64-bit Vista on it. All I have to do is clean it once in a while with AVG tuneup and defrag it and it has never failed me. I'm sure an Apple laptop should be cleaned up once in a while too. ASUS uses very fast motherboards from what I've seen in the past. Lenova has anti-shock methods to help save the hard drive if you drop it. There's nothing inherently wrong with any of those, nor with Dell, Acer, Gateway, and the others.
Apple uses the same Intel CPU, the same memory, and all the same hardware throughout, but simply has a single OS they've purified for years instead of changing the GUI numerous times like Windows has. That is Microsoft's major mistake. Microsoft doesn't sell hardware so they make more profit by coming out with various OS versions. Apple makes hardware so they stay consistent with one major OS. I DO like Apple's approach better on that.
But no matter how you want to shake it, Apple still only has a fraction of the personal computer market while Windows-based units dominate the market overwhelmingly. PCs outsell Macs 19 to 1 today. Apple turned to being an "entertainment device company" to save themselves from extinction - and lucky for them it worked. Magazine editors are now claiming that "Apple" will match PCs in sales in 2014 but then admit that their prediction includes iPods, iPads, iPhones, and all the other Apple devices. In reality, when you clear away all the other crap, PC computers still outsell Mac computers 19 to 1.
Is it because we all need to be enlightened to what we're missing by those who have crossed over into the heavenly place where system crashes supposedly don't exist but they actually do, the OS supposedly runs Intel CPUs faster than other OSs can but it actually doesn't, and everything is painted white?
No. The rest of us know what we're missing. Bloated pricing, software we need and want that isn't available for Apple or the Apple version comes out much later, over priced peripherals because of Apple's closed architecture and them only allowing technical info out to whom they choose, internal pod and pad circuitry encased in epoxy so it can't be repaired making the unit an expensive throwaway commodity, batteries that are permanently installed in mobile devices so the device has to be pitched when the battery fails to hold a charge, and more. Apple creates planned obsolescence for their devices, far worse than Microsoft does with their software. But devoted Jobs worshippers don't talk about it as they have their pockets emptied by a company floating in an ocean of cash from selling Chinese products with absurd markups - while Microsoft is crucified for selling U.S. made software upgrades that cost a fraction as much.
I personally haven't had a Windows crash in over a decade. I've also never had a mechanical failure except an internal Western Digital hard drive in an HP desktop (which wasn't HP's or Microsoft's fault) around 2003 and a Western Digital hard drive failure in an HP laptop in 2009 (not the same one discussed above). My Epson scanner, Epson photo printer, and laser printers have all moved from Windows XP, Vista, and now Win7 without a hitch. I rarely have a software installation problem nor Windows-version-compatibility problem. I simply disable all background activities and apps that don't pertain to me and my PCs all scream along quite nicely thank you.
So why can't we just all co-exist without this undeserved Apple arrogance thing that always filters into every computer conversation? I have nothing against Apple products, love the Retina displays, and have a couple iPods around here. I liked Wozniak but never liked Jobs and watching the movie made me like him even less. And I used Apple exclusively back in the days of Apple II, Apple IIc (almost a laptop but not quite), and Apple IIgs until they screwed me for $1800 two months after I bought the IIgs because they dropped it unceremoniously in favor of the first Mac box. Not even an offer of a loyalty trade-in for 50% of the amount paid toward a Mac or anything, just a complete screwing. I ended up selling it to a school for $700 minus shipping just to get rid of the boat anchor that had no technical support and no software other than the old stuff.
The used PC I bought for $300 soon afterward was twice as fast as the first Mac, cost a fraction as much, had more software available for less, had tons of plug-in boards available at considerably lower prices, and I was impressed so I've stuck with the PC world through thick and thin as critics, snobby editors, artists, newspaper layout people, teachers, etc. tried every way possible to criticize and talk down about PCs. Meanwhile the PC market kept growing and the Apple market kept shrinking.
Even in mobile devices, Apple's market share is shrinking while Samsung's market share is growing in leaps and bounds. Maybe five years from now Samsung will also outsell Apple 19 to 1 in mobile devices.
Go into a doctor's office or hospital and see how many Apples are built into test equipment and lab equipment. None. It's usually IBM or Dell. But the blindly faithful have their Apple laptops sitting on desks for doing patient paperwork and keeping notes. Yet billing department and the reception desks typically have Dell desktops networked to the company's mainframe.
I may buy a Retina display one day if the Samsung claim of their monitors being even higher resolution and clearer isn't true. I haven't looked yet to find out. But otherwise, the PC world is just fine for my needs.