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iMac better regarding photo/video editing than PC?
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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 306829" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>There are two things else to consider. </p><p></p><p>If photography is your hobby, hopefully you know all about color management and color spaces in general. It is my guess, based on what I have seen, that Mac OS X supports color management more or less natively. This is not a bolt on extra like it is in Windows. Even the humble Preview viewer transparently does the right thing when confronted with the same image in sRGB vs. ARGB (I tested it this very way!). So, this is a real bonus. You are not restricted just to a few programs that understand color management - pretty much everything does! This may be because Mac OS X supports this somewhere deep down in its innards, or it may just be the Mac culture at work on software developers - you would never even THINK of writing an image viewer/manipulator that didn't implement this (oh the shame of it all!).</p><p></p><p>Secondly, I believe that the PowerMac G5 is still the fastest Photoshop engine out there. Once Adobe releases CS3 with its Intel native support, this may cease to be true, but for now, the G5 beats out all comers in performance tests of heavy duty Photoshop filters. So, speed is also a consideration. In tests, my then new 2.3 GHz PowerMac G5 was almost twice as fast as my then current 3.0 GHz Pentium IV HT. This is actually why I switched! I pretty much LIVE in Photoshop for long periods of time, and I LOVED the speed bump. The above wonderful discovery about color management (which Photoshop does anyway!) was just icing on the cake.</p><p></p><p>So, a few things to think about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 306829, member: 17052"] There are two things else to consider. If photography is your hobby, hopefully you know all about color management and color spaces in general. It is my guess, based on what I have seen, that Mac OS X supports color management more or less natively. This is not a bolt on extra like it is in Windows. Even the humble Preview viewer transparently does the right thing when confronted with the same image in sRGB vs. ARGB (I tested it this very way!). So, this is a real bonus. You are not restricted just to a few programs that understand color management - pretty much everything does! This may be because Mac OS X supports this somewhere deep down in its innards, or it may just be the Mac culture at work on software developers - you would never even THINK of writing an image viewer/manipulator that didn't implement this (oh the shame of it all!). Secondly, I believe that the PowerMac G5 is still the fastest Photoshop engine out there. Once Adobe releases CS3 with its Intel native support, this may cease to be true, but for now, the G5 beats out all comers in performance tests of heavy duty Photoshop filters. So, speed is also a consideration. In tests, my then new 2.3 GHz PowerMac G5 was almost twice as fast as my then current 3.0 GHz Pentium IV HT. This is actually why I switched! I pretty much LIVE in Photoshop for long periods of time, and I LOVED the speed bump. The above wonderful discovery about color management (which Photoshop does anyway!) was just icing on the cake. So, a few things to think about. [/QUOTE]
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