Anyone switch from a pc to Mac?

[Grandpaw]

PS: Jeff if you have any tips for me I would appreciate it.

So far I like IPhoto to organize my photos. I have it set up so when I click the edit button in IPhoto it opens it up in CS5. Try it, I think you may like it. If you have thousands of pictures and you want to find all of the pictures of a certain person all you do is search for that face and it will find all the pictures of that person or you can search by places also.

I am still learning but if you have any questions send me an email or PM, Jeff

[Old Timer]

Thanks Jeff I may have to get in touch with you. I decided to use Bridge to up load and hope that is a good decision.

[jetrim]

But don't think that Macs are immune to issues. I have a friend who is a professional photographer and her iMac crashed hard. It took her about 2 weeks and lots of headaches to get it back to normal. Macs might have fewer problems than Windows machines, but if you buy into the "Macs never crash" BS, you might pay for it when you are unprepared.

Absolutely right! :mad2:
JETA, if it's any consolation to you, I've had just as many problems with my 27" imac over the past 9 months as you've had with your HP. It's been in the Apple "hospital" for more than 20 days total so far - thank God it's still under warranty.

[jetrim]

Thanks Jeff I may have to get in touch with you. I decided to use Bridge to up load and hope that is a good decision.

I've been using Bridge as a replacement for ACDSee and haven't had any issues in the last 10 months. The only thing I have found is that it bogs down when you get upwards of 1000 images in a single folder - I mean like "go have dinner while I load this thing and I might be almost done when you get back" slow.

[JETA]

Thank you all again. Lots to think about.

What I'm thinking is for the next machine I may buy a mac and work between both.

For sure I'll never ever go with an HP again. Once they sent me the new machine it took me a few days to get everything set up. I hung onto the old machine for about a week until I knew the new machine was a go. There was a voicemail left by my case manager that he was going to turn me into collections if I didn't turn in the old machine asap. Blew me away. It took them 5 months to make this situation right and they are going after me for having two machines for 7 days? Just bizarre.