Gettin a Mac

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colyn

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I went shopping for a new laptop today. After looking at who knows how many and a trip to several stores I was shown a Mac Powerbook. The graphics were outstanding. Beat my HP hands down.

I show my photos with a laptop and the HP just wasn't cutting it.. Colors were dull and the b&w photos were purple but the Mac brought out both color and b&w in their true tones..

I may even end up trading my custom built dual core AMD desktop in on a Mac.
 
the macbook pro can be bought with a "glossy" screen, i think they call it, and it is supposed to make the colors appear more vibrant as well.
 
congrats on the new Mac.. you'll love it! and if you have Windoze withdrawal, no problem.. just get Parallels and run both OSX and XP on the same computer at the same time!

yeah, you can get the MacBooks with both screens.. as a graphic artist, I personally HATE the glossy screens.. they really mess with your eyes if you work on them for a while, and tend to cause glare from light sources off to the side
 
After getting a Macbook at the end of summer I can tell you that you won't regret your decision! My pictures have nevery looked so good, but like Brett mentions the glossy screen can sometimes glare annoyingly. I've always been able to adjust the angle of the screen to overcome it, so it isn't really a problem for me. If it is I think the Macbook pro has the option of a mat screen.

Peter
 
For some reason, I want the Mac Mini, with a huge screen. Compared to my monster HP pavilion desktop, there is something really neat about a PC the size of a beer coaster...
 
I would also highly recommend a matte screen- gloss can be nice for the occasional viewing, but for prolonged work it can be quite fatiguing.
 
I believe the iBooks are the one with glossy screens while the Powerbooks have the Matte which is what I specified.

One of the reasons in replacing the HP notebook was because it has the glossy screen.
 
JoeFriday said:
congrats on the new Mac.. you'll love it! and if you have Windoze withdrawal, no problem.. just get Parallels and run both OSX and XP on the same computer at the same time!
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I once ran Windows apps on a Linux machine using wine..

I just custom built a new desktop based on the AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor with 4 gig of ram with Windows XP Pro so I'll have a windows unit to go back to. Finally decide to upgrade to XP Pro from 2000 Pro.. I'll wait to see what Vista does before sinking any money into it..

JoeFriday said:
yeah, you can get the MacBooks with both screens.. as a graphic artist, I personally HATE the glossy screens.. they really mess with your eyes if you work on them for a while, and tend to cause glare from light sources off to the side
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I specified the Matte screen. The HP's glossy screen gave me headaches.. My desktop wide panel screen is also matte..
 
It's likely the screen on the HP was just out of calibration if the B&W photos had a cast to them, but you made a good choice with the Apple.
 
MadMan2k said:
It's likely the screen on the HP was just out of calibration if the B&W photos had a cast to them, but you made a good choice with the Apple.
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I tried adjusting the screen resolution but still had the purple cast.

I've never seen such outstanding colors/tones from a laptop like what I saw on the Mac. I've always heard Macs are better than Windows for graphics.
 
I suppose I'm biased, cause I've been a Mac guy since they came out (Apple IIe before that). I have to suffer with the Wintel stuff at work, and there is no comparison.
I just got a new Macbook, as my maxed out Powerbook 1400 had a mother board failure. I do have the glossy screen, and as long as you don't get the wrong angle to the light, it's beautiful.
You'll love your new Mac!!!:cool:
 
you will love your new mac ... I highly recommend "AppleCare Protection" ...especially for a laptop.... also a good book By Scott Kelby "OSX Killer Tips "......... Have any questions feel free to ask
 
Al Patterson said:
For some reason, I want the Mac Mini, with a huge screen. Compared to my monster HP pavilion desktop, there is something really neat about a PC the size of a beer coaster...
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The Mini is a fine little computer with more than enough horsepower for most home users' needs. My 1st Gen Mini (G4 processor with 1Gb RAM) runs Photoshop PS2 with ease.

Ron
 
Update...

Update...

I've been playing with the Mac for a couple of days now. The more I use it the more convinced I am that I should convert completely over to Mac.

A couple of question to Mac users..Can you build a custom built Mac by buying the individual components (MB, ram, processor, etc) or do you have to buy the unit built by the factory??

If so where might I look for the components?
 
Things like the motherboard are not something you can buy off the shelf. But you can replace graphics cards, hard drives, etc with the same ease you can with a PC. Otherwise, you can't just put together a Mac. That said, you can configure your new Mac online at Apple's website.

Ron
 
colyn said:
I tried adjusting the screen resolution but still had the purple cast.

I've never seen such outstanding colors/tones from a laptop like what I saw on the Mac. I've always heard Macs are better than Windows for graphics.
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I mean color calibration. It's really important for systems you're going to be doing image editing on. You can get it reasonably close using the tool that comes with Photoshop, but to get it right you need a hardware device that goes over the screen and looks at it to see how accurate the colors are, and makes the adjustments. The cheapest one is the Pantone Huey, it's about $80.

Even if you're happy with the colors on the Apple, it would be worth it to calibrate it. It's possible your images have the magenta cast in all of them, in which case everyone you show them to online with a monitor calibrated differently than yours will see something different. At least if you use a hardware system you know the images are correct, and any color balance problems other people might see are their equipment's fault.
 
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I mean color calibration. It's really important for systems you're going to be doing image editing on. You can get it reasonably close using the tool that comes with Photoshop, but to get it right you need a hardware device that goes over the screen and looks at it to see how accurate the colors are, and makes the adjustments. The cheapest one is the Pantone Huey, it's about $80.
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I understand what you are saying here but my editing is done on my desktop which the monitor has been calibrated and displays properly there. When I copy the photos to the HP laptop they are dull and B&W photos display with a purple tint. :(

I looked at several HP laptops at a couple of stores and they were the same. The only ones I found that looked good were the fujitsu laptops which displayed bright vivid colors and rich B&W. But they were also priced at nearly double the HP's..

For the same price as the Fujitsu's I was able to get a Powerbook Pro which is a better laptop than the PC's..
 
Such a pleasure reading this. Mac and Win folks getting along. Wow. The head of IT at my university is virulently anti-Mac and every so often threatens to ban them from the campus altogether...
 
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