https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2018/06/14/on-the-sad-state-of-macintosh-hardware/
Will Apple continue to be a viable computer platform in the future?
Will Apple continue to be a viable computer platform in the future?
No idea. I deal with it when in happens. The current minimum configuration for CC is a 2Ghz Intel Core 2 (which processor was discontinued in 2011) and 2GBs of RAM, though 8GB is recommended. All of Apples current computer will run LR/PS for the foreseeable future.When will an Adobe CC upgrade break your system?
This is pretty much me, too. I bought my first Mac (a MacBook Pro) in 2006 and it still works. Can't update it at all, but it still limps along (the young'un uses it to play Disney's web games). My main computer is a 2009 build iMac and it's likely to get replaced with a new iMac soon (it works well, but I won't be able to play the Myst package that's coming out in the fall). In the time I've been using the iMac, my husband (die-hard Windows user) has gone through 2 desktops, two laptops, and is on his third Surface Pro - most of the older ones no longer work and they're younger than my iMac. I'm kinda worried about the future and whether they'll continue to have what will work for me, but I'll do what I need to. They likely make more $ off phones and watches than off iMacs and money has more to do with it now that Jobs is gone.As most companies, they have to go where the money is. Professional products are very small while mobile devices like Iphone, Ipad, and IWatch are profit centers. I hate Windows and I'm not smart enough for Linux.
One good thing about macintosh is you can use them longer than Windows computers. At the university, we recycle them. They make great print servers and poor grad students love them. Old windows computers end up as ewaste. You can buy a pallet full for Dells for a song.
I've used Linux since it was in Alpha. Great OS, just not enough programs for it to be useful for anything other than a server. I agree that FCPX is wanting but I do videos for non-profits and that's what most of them use. If and when I get a big project that requires more I will go with Avid on a PC. I hate Premiere.
been using an apple since 1986, i don't think i will change anytime soon
One good thing about macintosh is you can use them longer than Windows computers. At the university, we recycle them. Old windows computers end up as ewaste. You can buy a pallet full for Dells for a song.
One good thing about macintosh is you can use them longer than Windows computers.
Wow, I remember those days. Remember Kroy letters and doing layouts with blue line boards and wax machines? Where I work, we have very strict cybersecurity policies that obsoleted old Windows computers. To be perfectly honest, computers are a real money pit. In our Mac lab, we have 21 Imacs that have to be replaced every 3 years. And now, we have to subscribe to Adobe Creative Cloud for software. It's an average cost of $30K per year for our lab not counting the personal cost to maintain the machines. Our curriculum requires student learn current skills which means running the latest software. The Art Studio lab which has printers that have to be replaced every 3 years also. It costs a King's ransom to buy the inks.Really?
The old 'clunker' HP 'puter that looks after our cable/WIFI router here was brought into service in October 2001, running the "all singing, all dancing" Windows XP OS.
The machine has never been serviced, rarely turned off and is seen as the more reliable of 8 PCs (and one Mac). The Mac has persistent difficulties identifying and locking on to the router beacon.
Some of my finishing typesetting training (1989?) was undertaken in early and quite capable networked Macintosh puters, specifically the 2cx "tallboy" running QuarkXPress.
Later semi-transluscent, candy-coloured iMacs were an absolute disaster, one catching fire but the common infuriating thread was the round mouse supplied with these computers.
From my experience, Windows are cheaper to buy but more expensive to maintain with all the updates and patches, Mac OS isn't perfect, but requires much less work to maintain. In our department, they tried to get rid of Macs for the IT folks because they cost too much. I pushed back telling them that I can't support arts faculty with their Macs if I don't have one. Management could dictate what computers staffers use, but faculty have free reign in what they want to buy and use. Our tech team has 3 platforms to support, Windows, Mac and now IOS.I found PC is both less expensive and more expensive. With Mac there are no real cheap ones nor real expensive ones.
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