Comments on: Switching from Apple Mac OS X to Windows Vista ?

By: a*ron

a*ron — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:35:33 +0000

a*ron:

Totally agree with you pal. Get an Entry Level Cam with kit lens, print some name cards, and start charing and call themselves Photographers… anyway, here is my site to share ~

http://www.flick.com/photos/ahtak

Guess is not any better than those who we are talking about here, LOL !

By: a*ron

a*ron — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:19:16 +0000

It’s been awhile since anyone commented on this entry, but I thought I would. Ahtak, I think you’re coming at this from a bit too biased a perspective. I’ve used Mac and Windows operating systems except I haven’t used Vista yet — I’ve never had a problem with XP Pro and am thinking maybe Windows 7 might be alright.

But you seem to think that photographers who work on images on a Windows machine are just producing “snapshots” indistinguishable from the point-and-shoot, built-in flash, low quality stuff that most people are used to.

As a photographer (and journalist) who does work on Windows, I thought I’d suggest you try to do a little more work before you press your shutter button than when you load files or scan into a program to produce more ones and zeroes in an electronic box.

I think a lot of folks who call themselves photographers these days…really aren’t, and never would have been “photographers” if not for the ease of technology and software making “professional” portraits and fake results.

Just my two cents!

By: John Brainard

John Brainard — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:30:44 +0000

Wow Jim! This is the longest running, most commented blog entry so far. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to slow down anytime soon.

I’ll be back in a few minutes with a bowl of popcorn!

By: Kenneth Rhem

Kenneth Rhem — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:01:35 +0000

Windoze is the evil empire. It’s just too bad that Hackintosh is now taking their OS ques from their far clunkier competitor. Before you MAC fans burn me to the ground recall all the “minor quirks” (though i’m not one to call losing a directory “minor” or “quirky”) Lepoard has displayed in each of it’s release/updates so far.

I’m in Indianapolis Jim. I’ve got a friend in Cinci i planned to send your way (though you’ve probably already met her (Kelli K)).

See you tomorrow!

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:51:52 +0000

Ahhh, yes, someday every app will be hosted online and Google will own everything. Wow, remember when Microsoft was the evil empire? And you’ve reminded me that I need to dual boot this laptop with Linux asap. Linux is the Switzerland of operating systems, I should be safe there.

Kenneth, I’ll let you know on the G4s, right now they’re still at work for automated tasks. Where in the midwest are you located? And, btw, you gave me the inspiration for tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) post, tune in if you can…

By: Kenneth Rhem

Kenneth Rhem — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:29:54 +0000

Thanks for your Blog. I’m an assistant in the Midwest who needs the reminder that making it is possible.

What G4 macs do you have? Interested in selling sans hard drive?

By: Matthew Botos

Matthew Botos — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:31:06 +0000

Kudos for trying something new, Jim!

With the number of great multi-platform programs and increasingly web-based applications, I do wonder when the choice of operating system will become a minor concern…

(Writing this on my Windows iTunes “jukebox” since the MacBook’s hard drive ate it today and the Fedora Linux box hasn’t been powered up in almost 2 years )

By: Jim Talkington

Jim Talkington — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:44:29 +0000

Thanks for the input, I understand your points about Mac superiority. I’ve been a Mac user since ‘85 or so and have never had a complaint, except for the cost of the hardware. I’ve only used a PC once, from 2000-2002, and it was (at times) a frustrating experience. There’s a lot of pressure in my industry to keep lowering costs, though, so I have to explore all of the options.

Philip, I very well may find your experience with this blog laptop, that time lost in productivity makes it more expensive in the long run. Maybe I should have checked with you guys before buying it.

I understand your point, Ahtak, it makes sense. There has always been a higher regard for Apple equipment and that’s what we use at our photo studio. I don’t know how (or if) our professional clients would react if PCs were used in the production environment of our studio.

By: ahtak

ahtak — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:09:25 +0000

Technical stuffs aside, as new-faster-more powerful hardwares were introduced every minutes.

If you rather save a few bucks ( or maybe more ) for a ugly PC, why would a client want to pay more ( perhaps alot more ) for a professionally done picture ? Why want to pay more for Luxury Leather Wallet where a used nylon wallet can just hold the same amount of stuffs ?

Appreciating Creativity and Inspirations ~

If anyone would say paying so much more for a Mac that can do equally same job as a PC does are insane~ I would say those paying a fortune for Professional Portraits should just get a Digital Camera and do snapshot at home, it will be the same person in the image anyway.

Make any sense ?

By: Philip Morris

Philip Morris — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:38:34 +0000

I’m amazed that you decided to switch to Vista. My personal setup is all Mac and Linux. My day job setup is all PC and is generally in a state of crashing, not running or slowing me down.

It wasn’t always that way, but after a few months I needed to do more than a couple of tasks. I had to install more than a limited number of applications on the Windoze environment. It began to show it’s true colors once again.

I’ve had my latest Mac, longer than my latest work PC and the PC costs me money in time wasted. The Mac is loaded to the hilt and everything runs flawless. On the PC I have to spend time dealing with software and driver incompatibilities and have to wait upwards of 5 minutes just for the wireless to find the right network to connect. Not so on the Mac. For me the Mac is clearly the long-term savings. Saving a few bucks on an initial investment is not cost effective for me.