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Where are the Mac users
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Another Mac user, since 1984. iPhones, iPad, AppleTV, iCloud and the whole ecosystem. When travelling I tend to extract images at the end of the day from the camera (OM5) via the phone, and let that lot sync into iCloud and later on at home do the editing on an iMac. Aside from Photos I'm using Affinity for the things Photos can't do, and Topaz for noise reduction and sharpening
tprevatt
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I worked on some of the oldest computers around, e.g., the IBM 1401. The 1401 is the Model T of the computer industry. It doesn't even have a fixed word length and of course it is all (all 4000 words of it) magnetic core. I've worked on some of the original super computers, e.g., the Cray I, Cray II, Cray MPX. When I decided that home computers had come far enough not to me more than a nerd toy, was the Mac. Then Apple hires back Jobs firing the idiots on the board that fired him and Jobs brings Unix to the Mac. From that point the Mac has based its OS on BSD Unix by interfacing a top notch desktop interfaced over it. So that put me in pig heaven and that's when I bought my first PC which was a Mac. Today, we are total Apple household. One older iMac devoted to the business and accounting end - mostly because of our large Quickbooks database. A 2019 iMac 27 which my wife uses, a 2020 MBAir M1, a 2020 MBP 13 M1 which serves as our back up disk server and my one and only Mac, a 2022 MBP 14 M1 Pro. While the Mac desktop is very nice, much better than any of the Linux desktops I have worked on and even nicer than the Sun Solaris desktop, the Mac allows me to bring up a bash terminal and do anything and everything at the Unix OS level.
I've never been a Windows fan. As I have often hear it explained is that Windows is nothing more than a glorified 8 bit system from a 2 bit company.
I've never been a Windows fan. As I have often hear it explained is that Windows is nothing more than a glorified 8 bit system from a 2 bit company.
I worked on some of the oldest computers around, e.g., the IBM 1401. The 1401 is the Model T of the computer industry. It doesn't even have a fixed word length and of course it is all (all 4000 words of it) magnetic core. I've worked on some of the original super computers, e.g., the Cray I, Cray II, Cray MPX. When I decided that home computers had come far enough not to me more than a nerd toy, was the Mac. Then Apple hires back Jobs firing the idiots on the board that fired him and Jobs brings Unix to the Mac. From that point the Mac has based its OS on BSD Unix by interfacing a top notch desktop interfaced over it. So that put me in pig heaven and that's when I bought my first PC which was a Mac. Today, we are total Apple household. One older iMac devoted to the business and accounting end - mostly because of our large Quickbooks database. A 2019 iMac 27 which my wife uses, a 2020 MBAir M1, a 2020 MBP 13 M1 which serves as our back up disk server and my one and only Mac, a 2022 MBP 14 M1 Pro. While the Mac desktop is very nice, much better than any of the Linux desktops I have worked on and even nicer than the Sun Solaris desktop, the Mac allows me to bring up a bash terminal and do anything and everything at the Unix OS level.
I've never been a Windows fan. As I have often hear it explained is that Windows is nothing more than a glorified 8 bit system from a 2 bit company.
I think you have me beat. I started on an IBM 360/65 and a Univac 1110 and 1108. I was working at CERN in the early 1980s when IBM 'gave' us a bunch of PC/XTs. We had no idea what to do with them so used them to play Space Invaders.
I've been a Mac Addict since 1986; worked for Mike Markkula for five years in the early 2000's as his IT Specialist. In spite of also being a Windows administrator and support specialist and in spite of the exorbitant cost of Macs, I only use Macs for my photo work; they are still the best, even though over the years they have mimicked Windows a bit too much as far as I'm concerned. Still, not a deal breaker. Interesting note: when I worked for Mike Markkula, we hired a number of architects and landscape architects, who were all Windows-based for many years. Of course, with Mike being one of the founders of Apple, we only used Macs in the business. After working for us and working exclusively on Macs for a couple months, almost all of them bought Macs for their personal use at home.
About a year ago, I upgraded from my 2012 Mac Pro that was maxed out in every way, and a powerhouse for graphics and photoshop, (and still working perfectly today!) to a Mac Studio M1 Max with 64GB RAM and a 4TB SSD. What's great about the Studio? It's quiet. It runs cool. It has a footprint the size of a Mac Mini. It has numerous ports. The M1 Max, while not quite as fast as the M2 Max, is amazingly fast and has more processing power than I'll ever need, even if I get into video at some point. And with the addition of AppleCare, although it's probably not needed, I have no worries about failures of any kind. I still have a MacBook Pro from 2011 that works as well as the day I bought it, better in fact since I maxed out the RAM and installed an SSD. And I also have a 2008 MacBook (white plastic) that still works flawlessly. Oh, and a couple 2013 27" iMacs that still work, slowly in comparison to the M1's, but still work well.
I liked the Mac Studio so much that I bought a Mac MIni for my office at work, another one for my wife, and 3 weeks ago I couldn't resist buying a refurbished 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max also with 64GB RAM, but only a 1TB SSD. It is simply amazing. I have external 2TB PCIe SSDs in Sabrent USB-C enclosures on all three of my Macs for additional storage and the performance is still fantastic, fast enough for all the work I do in LR and PS.
Yes, you can get fantastic Windows machines, excellent laptops, some even more powerful and faster than the M1 & M2 Macs, but they will never have the elegance of the Mac integrated user interface, the beautifully designed hardware made only by Apple, and the flawless connectivity with iPhones and iPads, with network printers.
About a year ago, I upgraded from my 2012 Mac Pro that was maxed out in every way, and a powerhouse for graphics and photoshop, (and still working perfectly today!) to a Mac Studio M1 Max with 64GB RAM and a 4TB SSD. What's great about the Studio? It's quiet. It runs cool. It has a footprint the size of a Mac Mini. It has numerous ports. The M1 Max, while not quite as fast as the M2 Max, is amazingly fast and has more processing power than I'll ever need, even if I get into video at some point. And with the addition of AppleCare, although it's probably not needed, I have no worries about failures of any kind. I still have a MacBook Pro from 2011 that works as well as the day I bought it, better in fact since I maxed out the RAM and installed an SSD. And I also have a 2008 MacBook (white plastic) that still works flawlessly. Oh, and a couple 2013 27" iMacs that still work, slowly in comparison to the M1's, but still work well.
I liked the Mac Studio so much that I bought a Mac MIni for my office at work, another one for my wife, and 3 weeks ago I couldn't resist buying a refurbished 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max also with 64GB RAM, but only a 1TB SSD. It is simply amazing. I have external 2TB PCIe SSDs in Sabrent USB-C enclosures on all three of my Macs for additional storage and the performance is still fantastic, fast enough for all the work I do in LR and PS.
Yes, you can get fantastic Windows machines, excellent laptops, some even more powerful and faster than the M1 & M2 Macs, but they will never have the elegance of the Mac integrated user interface, the beautifully designed hardware made only by Apple, and the flawless connectivity with iPhones and iPads, with network printers.
I've only ever worked on personal computers, my first one being an LNW-80, a clone of the Radio Shack TRS-80 I bought from a friend cheaply, and a far better machine than the TRS-80 as I understand. But I soon discovered the Apple Mac Plus when it came out and was so happy to have the graphical interface, a mouse, a 3-½ in. floppy that wasn't floppy, and so on. I bought a huge 40 MB external HD for something like $250, that was just incredible! I have never bought another non-Apple computer for my personal use. I almost gave up on Apple when they fired Steve Jobs, but upon his return I was all in again.I worked on some of the oldest computers around, e.g., the IBM 1401. The 1401 is the Model T of the computer industry. It doesn't even have a fixed word length and of course it is all (all 4000 words of it) magnetic core. I've worked on some of the original super computers, e.g., the Cray I, Cray II, Cray MPX. When I decided that home computers had come far enough not to me more than a nerd toy, was the Mac. Then Apple hires back Jobs firing the idiots on the board that fired him and Jobs brings Unix to the Mac. From that point the Mac has based its OS on BSD Unix by interfacing a top notch desktop interfaced over it. So that put me in pig heaven and that's when I bought my first PC which was a Mac. Today, we are total Apple household. One older iMac devoted to the business and accounting end - mostly because of our large Quickbooks database. A 2019 iMac 27 which my wife uses, a 2020 MBAir M1, a 2020 MBP 13 M1 which serves as our back up disk server and my one and only Mac, a 2022 MBP 14 M1 Pro. While the Mac desktop is very nice, much better than any of the Linux desktops I have worked on and even nicer than the Sun Solaris desktop, the Mac allows me to bring up a bash terminal and do anything and everything at the Unix OS level.
I've never been a Windows fan. As I have often hear it explained is that Windows is nothing more than a glorified 8 bit system from a 2 bit company.
jostakesphotos
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I have and use my yellow iMac and now also an IPad, not that new but both work fine with Affinity. When I’m travelling I like to use my 16inch MacBook Pro Intel base. Maybe I might use my iPad more when travelling but need some more experience, so future will tell.
