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Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison

Posted by michael on from the crunch-crunch-grind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rob Galbraith posted a comparison among two Macs and two PCs. Both a high-end Mac and PC are included with somewhat surprising results given the number of Mac zealots who will claim otherwise... optimized for PC, Mac support second, Photoshop is faster, yada, yada, yada."

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  1. Danger! by Nogami_Saeko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Danger, danger!

    The last time I posted a Mac vs. PC comparison (backing up my clain with a web link to the comparison), I got modded down my the Mac cultists ;P

    [The site quoted in this post has much the same result as my findings, BTW].

    When I was doing more film work, I had to run approx 8,000 x 8mb .TIF files through Photoshop to adjust the resolution. I was amazed when it finished the complete run in just over an hour on my AMD Athlon 1200. Regardless of your choice of platform, today's machines have pretty amazing processing power.

    N.

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  2. Re:Unlike the Mac world by Visceral+Monkey · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Back to the shack with thee!!!

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  3. Re:No. by sheriff_p · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    FYI: a lot of paperfocussed designers are already moved to PC's.

    Mod parent down. What are you basing that on? I don't know a single one who would choose a PC given a choice - are you just hoping you can throw in lies to make yourself sound clever?!

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  4. PC is faster.. by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm faster with Photoshop on my PC than anybody else is with Photoshop on Mac because I'm better at using Photoshop than they are. So nerr.

  5. Re:So what??? by nmg196 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    With these stats, you're obviously running Linux on the PC and MaxOS X on the iMac?? (You omit to state these important facts in your technical comparitive review).

    Windows only asks about 5 questions (PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc) that it obviously can't predict with magic. MacOS probably doesn't ask you anything (never used it). MacOS has the incorrect PC name, password, time zone, keyboard layout etc on first boot.

    Only Linux distros are capable of asking you 100+ questions on the install (usually do you want to install "grep", do you want to install "xcalc", do you want to install "ls" etc etc...).

    I've never had to rebuild windows ever. Rebuilds are usually due to L-Users not knowing how their own computer works or how to fix simple problems.

    "Mom could use it". If your Mom can't use windows, then she probably can't wipe her own ass either... Is it the two mouse buttons that causes her issues?

    Dev tools cost per user - why not use the free ones? You seem to think that Open Source is somehow limited to iMacs?! You realise that all other major platforms have open source dev tools too right? Or were you too busy wiping your Mom's ass to have time to find that out?

    Nick...