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Post by Raikon on Nov 28, 2009 18:48:37 GMT 2
Yeah. I'm probably getting a Mac soon.
Really confusing that there's no Trillian (Yet.) nor Paint Shop Pro.
Any tips for the transition?
Discuss.
Going to have to spend a few days trying to get back to Photoshop after years of faithful service to Jasc. ):
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Post by viruszero on Nov 29, 2009 4:55:37 GMT 2
Tips for transition... Save yourself the time and just stick to windows. Really, that's about all I can say. Despite what rabid mac fans claim, the mac is not the be all, end all art machine. Yes, it does have some half decent creative programs... but then again Windows does too. ( And with a similarly priced windows machine, your windows machine will be faster and generally more powerful.) Speaking of price, you'll be looking at atleast $1000 for a macbook... Windows machines for similar hardware (Or even better in some cases, see Toshiba's... ) are going to be cheaper. EX- the U500 for $824 CDN ($775 US) For the price of a macbook I'd just as soon get this: A Toshiba Satellite A500 for less than $870 CDN ($820 USD). As far as customization goes... I am unaware of mac's ability to be customized. I do know that a lot of the more indepth things you can do on a windows machine are not possible. (Anything that involves tinkering with the registry. Which comes in handy for the advanced settings and configurations.) Also, you have to look at the programs your going to be using... Do they have mac equivalents? If not then can they be run on a mac? If not will you need Bootcamp + windows? As far as transferring files from mac to windows, I don't think that is an issue anymore as long as both programs are designed to open the same file... (EX- with MS Office 2007's .docx) Also if your getting the mac for school, be careful that they don't mandate that macs be running windows or something... (I've heard of it happening that people bought macbooks and then had to install XP on it to be allowed to use it.) If you're gonna have to use windows anyway, just get a cheaper windows laptop/computer or a similarly priced one that would have superior hardware. Just my thoughts though. |
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Post by Raikon on Nov 29, 2009 5:10:12 GMT 2
Nope, there's no problem at school. I've never heard of people banning Mac OSX on schools, only heard of students being forced to have an iPod Touch/iPhone in certain medical universities.
I believe the lack of a registry on a mac is more of a plus than a minus. You can move programs along from folders or even put them onto pendrives since no Registry restricts them. Also to uninstall, you just have to delete the files.
A Mac is sort of hard to compare to a Windows in terms of hardware.
Mac requires absolutely no RAM and nearly no processing power to run the OS itself, unlike Windows.
Not to mention that there's no need to have an AntiVirus running.
Most programs on the Mac require almost half of the specs of a Windows program.
Go see a Mac's system requirements on a game that works on both OS's.
It'll just tell you what version of operating system you require, which is rather funny.
Yes the problem would be compatibility. I'm sure most programs I use have equivalents, would just need time to get used to it.
About games, ugh. I'd like to avoid using BootCamp/VMWare/Parallels if I could, gonna try CrossOver for a few games since I know they work on it (It's a program that lets Macs install and run Windows stuff without Windows installed at all! But there's only few programs that work flawlessly as of yet.)
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