Computer Recommendations For Photography

[yultanman]

buy a mac - I am not an apple fan boy and I run windows XP, Vista, Suse, Ubuntu and Leopard. I support even more flavours

The bottom line is that each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses. I suggest the right tool for the job when analyzing someone's requirements

Unix/Linux - Best for server environments, runs for years solid doing it's tasks with minimal administrative headaches

Apple/Mac - Simply the best desktop experience you can have. I say that with the reservation that a good Linux desktop such as SuSE or Ubuntu with compiz installed is actually a flashier nicer desktop but the over all system integration is unmatched on the Mac. Everything you do will be seamless.

Windows - has it's strong points like an abundance of biz software, easily accessible tech support (though much harder to weed out the know-it-alls from the true techs, ie: people still recommend Norton products) but has gone downhill by trying to conquer everything and every market instead of focusing on building the best desktop and office software possible. Although some people may have an ok experience with Vista the sales number MS releases have nothing to do with all the business downgrades which happen each and every day to Vista boxes to make them compatible with the rest of the office.

As a photographer, get an Apple laptop, I nice big display from any other company than Apple and an assortment of external drives. I personally fell you should skip the iMac line if you want a desktop and go up to the MacPro. The iMac is essentially a laptop and if you are going to get that you may as well get the laptop and a big display for around the same cost and you have the advantage of portability.


When I first saw this post this was my response but then I added the seriousness:

this kind has worked well for me,

[stevenD]

I also switched to Apple last year, with a Mac Pro, the thing is awesome, it supports 4 Internal drives (up to 1 Terabyte each) 16gb max RAM. Yeah, I spent about $3500+ on it, but it will still be going strong when someone else is on their third $1000 PC.