I'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, ther

I'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.