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I use a Mac for my full time desktop and let me say MACS FUCKING SUCK FOR ANY GRAPHICS OR PHOTO WORK!!!
There's no software on the Mac that is equivalent to Downloader Pro from Breezesys. If you burn the images for a non-mac client your jpegs will be oriented wrong because a lot of PC software ignores the rotate flag in the header. I don't get why the camera doesn't just save them in different orientations instead of being lazy and just setting flag. It has to do the bayesian demosaicing anyways, not like there's any performance issues.
I have a Dell 30" and any photo software that uses color profiles fucks everything up. What I see on the screen is not what it actually looks like. What's the point of a monitor color profile if you're just going to fuck it up. Ironically, any app that doesn't do color management works perfectly. Unfortunately, there aren't any RAW converters on the Mac that ignore color profiles. I've spent 80 hours over the course of a month trying to get a workflow that works on the Mac. Have yet to find anything. If I view an image with an embedded sRGB profile in Preview it loooks fucked up. If I strip out the profile it looks fine. Funny thing is, stripped out profiles are supposed to be sRGB anyways. WTF Apple?!?!?!? I'm not going to pay $1700 for a Cinema display when I can get a superior display for $1200.
Photoshop completely sucks too. PC version is way better. Going through images is really slow. Fastest I've seen is Bridge but it has major performance issues and distorts the images. There's nothing as nice as ACDSee on the Mac. I've looked forever.
The RAW converter software absolutely blows on Mac. I tried Capture One, Lightroom and Aperture. The term power user never occurred to any of them. Hate all of them. Bad performance and interface is very clumsy and inefficient. They need to read some books on HCI theory. Best I've seen is Capture One v3 on the PC. I swear, I'm going to spend the time learning Objective-C and Cocoa just so I can write photography software that is actually usable. I'd probably make a fortune.
Otherwise, for programming, the Mac absolutely rules. Which is weird because I've always heard PC's are for technical people and Macs are for creative professionals. Definitely not the case in my opinion.
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