The advantages to a Mac OS is security, reliability and advanced technology while the disadvantages include a heftier price tag, a very limited gaming option and an operating system that does not accommodate upgrades or customization. Apr 14, 2015 CNET's Forum on Mac hardware is the best source for finding help, troubleshooting, and getting buying advice from a community of experts. Discussion topics.
Thats kind of a myth really. Its all personal preference (although I will say that my mbp runs lightroom much faster then my higher speced windows machine.
IMO Mac OS is just easier to work with for multimedia stuff. I dont have to download a bunch of programs and such just to see thumbnails of various image formats, the OS actually remembers where I am saving things unlike windows that shows a new random folder anytime I click save. Backup is nice and automatic with time machine (although it shouldnt be your only backup).
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Theres probably a million other little reasons but I cant think of any right now. I don't think either platform as an advantage over the other in so far as software. You like using a pc then use a pc, if you like a mac use a mac. I prefer a mac because OSX is a superior OS, in that its more stable, has less security problems.
It doesn't phone home, or validate that I'm not a thief, i.e., Windows Genuine Advantage. All in all the tools are the same.
For instance, you can use photoshop on either platform, you can use LightRoom. OSX has aperture windows does not, but then windows has applications for editing/managing images that osx does not. Use what you want. The myth persists about Macs being better for photo editing and graphics/creative work, and one time that was very true, back in the early-late 90s when Macs were 32-bit and Windows was just a 16-bit dog. Think 4 channel color, CMYK or RGB and transparency - no go on early versions of Windows, while Macs handled all this stuff. That's why the publishing industry all went Mac back in those days, and all those apps you use on Windows today, many of them originated as Mac apps, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark and the whole early desktop publishing industry.
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Ironically, even the original MS Office apps, Word and Excel were Mac only. You have to remember PCs ran DOS back then. So in many ways, by being able to develop for Mac, Microsoft learned enough about WYSIWYG GUIs to cobble together Windows as a shell on top of DOS, largely copying the concepts, but implementing them backwards. They still got sued, though.
A bit off topic, but interesting historically. Since then, Windows has caught up in capability, and both platforms run on basically the same hardware, so it's really a matter of taking your choice. To me, the OS's look and feel makes a huge difference, and once someone settles into Mac for a while, it usually feels more integrated, less edgy and jittery. That's the best way I can describe the feeling. More natural, a simpler interface that doesn't get in your way nearly as much - but.
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That's my opinion. Others are free to disagree, and more power to them. Bottom line: for photo editing, OS really doesn't matter as much as color management and software, as well as memory and GPU power. But, for overall experience, OS matters. Personally because I do very high resolution work (16k x 16k pixel images) that can easily reach large file sizes I use Windows now on my primary image editing computer because CS4 is only truly 64-bit on Windows for now. The hardware is also less expensive for a high power desktop.
I refuse to pay what Apple is asking for a Mac Pro, and my aging iMac just isn't up to the task. It works well enough, I don't have any of the 'common' issue that so many people grip about, no virus software installed, no maintenance, no slowdowns, no crashing, ect. Maybe I am just special. Both offer the same set of tools, and to me the minor differences in the function of the OS swing both ways. There are a number of things that I commonly use on my Windows machines that I wish were available on my Macs, and vice versa. Ultimately it all comes down to what you're comfortable using, and which allows you to make the fullest use of the hardware you can afford. For me that means running Vista x64 on a homebuilt Core 2 Quad machine.
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I would suggest that Macs are more stable than PCs. I say this partly from my own experience and partly from watching others and listening to their experiences. Certainly there are those who claim they never have problems on windows, God bless them. It is just that I hear and see of a lot of cases where people are in the middle of something and the program crashes or the OS decides to shut down and everything is lost. I can't say why this happens. We get it several times a day on software that I use provided with some instrumentation.
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I can't say why this is. Perhaps something is set wrong and if we had the time to track it down things would be better? Personally I find using windows a struggle.
It seems like the OS is always fighting me. I keep getting these nagging messages popping up in the lower right that I don't want to see.
File icons won't stay where I put them on the desktop. If I copy a file to an open folder the name doesn't appear unless I find the refresh command somewhere. Conversely, on the Mac things just seem to flow in the direction I'm going. I kind of get pulled in and get more creative because I'm happy about what I'm doing. I love the way Spotlight helps me find almost anything really quickly.
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After a while I've gotten to trust that the Mac will do what I expect or that I can soon find a way to make it work. On windows I'm always suspicious that the next mouse click will lead to disaster or at least a big problem. There is more uniformity between applications on the Mac. Pretty much every program uses the menu and icons in a consistent way.
Some don't, like Adobe, which is kind of annoying. On windows everyone wants to reinvent the interface.
I also find that the mouse seems to behave more smoothly on a Mac and I can position the cursor more precisely. On PCs the cursor seems to jump about frenetically.
Perhaps there is a better setting for this than the ones I've tried. It all comes down to preference. A skilled photographer/editor can create equally stunning/better pictures using a Mac or Windows-based machine. Neither machine is faster, as both can be upgraded until you pass-out from fan-boy hot air - so using that argument is a dead-end. So the preference?
Well it comes mainly down to work-flow process, short cuts, file management and UX - and to a degree, legacy from previous machines/backups/databases which can involve - in lessening degres - client/industry preferences, disk formats (ntfs/hfs+), software and file formats. You use what you're comfortable with, which you feel will give you the best results. The two 'advantages' I would say using a Mac, are ease of workflow and industry/client preference. The only real decisive hardware difference, doesn't come in the form of the computer - but in this context for photography, the Monitor.
The rest are niggles, but shouldn't effect the outcome/product if you're good. (sorry if long winded/repetition - have only just had a coffee which hasn't kicked in yet ). There are no real advantages. Both are basically the same now, minus the OS.
I don't know why people claim working in mac osx is 'better' than working in windows. You can't even cut and paste in mac finder, which is completely idiotic. Expressvu 81 92 install mount res. 'expose' is hardly a substitute for a good task manager/bar like the one in windows.
And if you really wanted a virtual desktop manager, there are about a billion and one freeware ones you can get for windows. Its funny when you see mac people who have only generally used macs try to talk about these 'amazing' features, when tons of these things have been available for windows for years now. Its true that back then, macs were the industry standard in this field, but this is changing. My graphic design firm (arcadeagency.com) has recently switched over to all PC's with dell monitors. We saved approximately $30,000 if we had decided to stick with apple products.