Just bought the D7000, you want tips, MacBook Pro, or Win 7 64 bit

I just purchased a D7000 and I try to update my PC for photo with Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom work. Looking for feedback from experienced users. What's better, MacBook Pro or Win 7 64 bit?

It is difficult to get reliable information on which platform Lightroom is more likely to work better, as Adobe would say "works equally well on both" and most individuals have personal biases that clouds objectivity (for example, users have just not enough data points to make a curve, so to speak).

I have used Lightroom on both platforms, but can't say which is better, except:

The Windows version supports hotkeys to access menu, which makes the plugin uses a lot easier (Mac version does not). In addition, some plugin functions (not a lot) do not work on Mac because of this.

Also (I'm a plugin author) there are some inefficiencies in the implementation of Windows of the plugin infrastructure which make me wonder if the Lightroom software has a gap of Mac under the hood - but I don't know. However, there are some anomalies in the implementation of Mac of the infrastructure of plugin that make it difficult to program plugins to work as well - for example, the edited text fields are not until a button click is treated, so have buttons that do things with freshly entered text can be challenging - there are workaround solutions , but not always viable and a plugin author should know about this, remember, code and test for her... And Mac users should be aware that they may need to tab to a text field before clicking on a button that treats the text ...

In any case, in the larger scheme of things, I think that the differences are relatively minor, and the big question is: what platform you want to use for the 'other' things still Lightroom.

PS - It can be a little more potential for problems on the Windows platform due to the wide variety of hardware and drivers that could have funny interactions, but these are corner cases...

Lightroom works fine on my Mac and on my Windows machine (much better on the new that older machine), but the opening acts barely at all on my Mac (relatively recent) (sloooooooow), but others do not have same problem... go figure...

See you soon,.

SoC

Tags: Photoshop Lightroom

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