Pound for pound, inch for inch, Macs cost more than PCs for comparably equipped machines. Professionals especially, because even business expenses cannot go unbridled. So which is better for digital photography: Mac or PC? It all depends on the following considerations.įor all of us except the very rich, there is an upper limit to how much we can spend on photographic equipment. I’ve gathered some pretty interesting answers, although many of the reasons are more emotional than rational. I delight in asking Mac users-and PC users-why their computer is best for Photoshop, editing video and so forth. And for some strange reason I never confuse the keyboard commands, so I can and do move seamlessly from one platform to the other. I can be happy with my Macs and equally at home with PCs.

So you might say that I’m whatever the computer equivalent of being bilingual is. But I own-and use-not one but three Macs, and I never travel without my MacBook Air. If it will make you PC advocates feel any better, this article-along with about 95% of everything else I write-is being started on a PC running Windows 8.1, a very reliable platform despite what its distracters say. Of course, there weren’t many other choices back then.

While I never went so far as to paste that little white apple-shaped decal on the back of my truck, I was a fairly fervent fan in the early years. Like many of you, my first computer was an Apple. Because I write about digital photography I must use both PCs and Macs so that I can deliver balanced stories and explain computer functions to our entire audience, not just one group or the other.

Before you get any ideas about drafting a posse and coming after me with tar and feathers because of my computer platform preferences, let me explain-please.

Photoshop on windows vs mac