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My wife has a photography business. Photoshop and Lightroom are essential tools for her. Right now she uses Windows 7 Pro. We can't stay on it long-term beca
by DoofusOfDeath 10y ago
My wife has a photography business. Photoshop and Lightroom are essential tools for her.
Right now she uses Windows 7 Pro. We can't stay on it long-term because of security (and eventually driver) issues.
Migrating to Windows 10 (non-enterprise) isn't an option because the forced updates are an unacceptable risk to downtime, especially at certain points in her business calendar (e.g., highschool yearbook photo season).
We may end up migrating to a new Mac Pro, but it won't be because the hardware is awesome. Truth be told, it will likely be overkill for her needs, and definitely overpriced.
We'd migrate her business to a Mac Pro because OS X doesn't have Windows 10's problems, and because we can probably recover from a hardware failure quickly due to the system's expected modularity.
- SippinLean 10y agoI'm not here to sing Windows' praises, Win10 has had it share of annoyances for me, but I've just set it (non-enterprise) to have to prompt me for updates, there are no forced updates. If that is the big feature that has you prepared to spend a hefty premium you might look into it further. > Photoshop and Lightroom are essential tools Those are in the cloud now, and performance is mostly based on your GPU. >Truth be told, it will likely be overkill for her needs, and definitely overpriced. >We'd migrate her business to a Mac Pro because OS X doesn't have Windows 10's problems This is insightful, thank you. >because we can probably recover from a hardware failure quickly due to the system's expected modularity Every hand-built PC will be just as or more modular though. If that's your concern, look at, say the Mac Minis with the RAM soldered in, I love Apple industrial design but don't like how hard it is to upgrade the hardware, generally.