OK, so none of this is in stone, but I'm kind of looking around.

I'm looking at a Macbook Pro, like 17" right now, kind of expensive, but probably worth it.

The college campus paper I shoot for uses all MACs and it would be nice to have one of my own. Since I'm not an editor (well, yet) I don't have an assigned desk or MAC for myself. The paper also get a little discount on MAC stuff...

I basically would want it for photo editing, writing papers and interweb.

I would still have my PC here @ home to basically store all my photos and do a majority of my editing and writing here, but it would be nice to have my own in the office to edit on the spot, or work on a story at school.

SO my question is... would I notice a big difference in my PC @ home to a MAC lap top, or should I just look at PC lap top. Brad built my PC strickly for editing photos and it's damn fast.

I wouldn't have to have formatted memory cards for my MAC or PC would I? What about files such as on word? Do they transfer easly? Is there anything I couldn't transfer? How does interweb work? etc etc.

 

We don't advise on that mac thing.

Don't be :ghey:

 

I don't know much about MACs but I do know that they run Word, so I don't think you'd have any issues with formatting for text documents.

 

other than MAC, any suggestions on PC lap tops? pref a wide screen, something that isn't to huge to carry around

 

dell 710m is nice

 

You dont need to format anything. The Mac will run any cross platform application/files fine. And remember, you can boot OSX and XP on the Mac.

Otherwise the Macbook Pro will do all the things you need and more. The black Macbook Pro is slight overkill and may be a little expensive, but is well worth it.

 

HP ftw. h:















flamesuit is on.

 

Pat if you are planning on image editing on your laptop I would strongly reccomend an Apple over any PC based laptop out there.

Reason simply is the screen itself displays colors truer than any screen available on any PC laptop and holds consistent color qualities. Not sure what they did but they sure as hell did it right. My editor does all his edits on his Mac and they come out consistent and very high quality. I have edited on my laptop after calibrating and it is a nightmare when I look at it on my calibrated PC screen.

Mac also does run PS a bit more efficiently than a PC (yes it is true) but not amazingly so until you get to the laptop application You can run word and most if not all of MS Office and files are compatible back and forth through other means as well.

 

Oh as for card formatting it doesn't really matter much I dump Brandons cards on my comp and I have dumped mine on his Mac

 

calibration and actual resolution is different b/t Mac and PC. I forgot what it was, but the Mac generally runs a brighter screen too due to the resolution thing.