It had to happen - I finally bought a Mac!
I bit the bullet and upgraded my 2 year old, yet very fastly-aging Dell Precision M60 portable workstation - to an Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2.16ghz... I love this new notebook - it is VERY slick, and as far as I can tell so far - very fast in general!! The little things make it faster- from startup time measured in seconds, to wake from sleep in like 2 seconds, this thing flies on most everything.
I'm hanging out for the latest Universal version of Adobe CS to take advantage of the Intel Core Duo processor - and then it should fly on Adobe Bridge, CR and PS too. I also need to upgrade the RAM to the full 2gb ASAP - as it can be a little laggy in Aperture and Lightroom with some of the bigger pics.... I'm still "training" the battery - but that should be sorted soon enough. In contrast the battery life seems shorter than my M60's - which is a little dissapointing.
Anyway so picture editing and album creation should be a cinch with this new portable. Showing off portrait sessions and weddings on this is going to be great with the remote.... I bought the TV output cable with it at the same time so it should have no hassles connecting this to pretty much anything from TV's to HD projectors.
All in all - the things that could be improved upon from my early impression is battery life, the speakers, and heat... I could cook eggs on this thing!!
I bit the bullet and upgraded my 2 year old, yet very fastly-aging Dell Precision M60 portable workstation - to an Apple MacBook Pro 15" 2.16ghz... I love this new notebook - it is VERY slick, and as far as I can tell so far - very fast in general!! The little things make it faster- from startup time measured in seconds, to wake from sleep in like 2 seconds, this thing flies on most everything.
I'm hanging out for the latest Universal version of Adobe CS to take advantage of the Intel Core Duo processor - and then it should fly on Adobe Bridge, CR and PS too. I also need to upgrade the RAM to the full 2gb ASAP - as it can be a little laggy in Aperture and Lightroom with some of the bigger pics.... I'm still "training" the battery - but that should be sorted soon enough. In contrast the battery life seems shorter than my M60's - which is a little dissapointing.
Anyway so picture editing and album creation should be a cinch with this new portable. Showing off portrait sessions and weddings on this is going to be great with the remote.... I bought the TV output cable with it at the same time so it should have no hassles connecting this to pretty much anything from TV's to HD projectors.
All in all - the things that could be improved upon from my early impression is battery life, the speakers, and heat... I could cook eggs on this thing!!
posted by Nathan at 8:52 PM
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Hey, thanks for the info on the convert from pc to mac .... i'm toying with the idea .... and each time I hear it from a photographer ... it makes my decision that much closer! :-) Thanks again.
Hi Penny,
I loved my MBP - but it had a problem with the logic board, and it's been taken back - so I'm ordering a new one as soon as I get the cash back on the credit card...
The conversion is not as hard as you'd first think; and once you get started with all the Mac keyboard shortcuts... well its all fun from there!!
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