Quote Originally Posted by Jayson View Post
How much, if any, performance increase or decrease do you think I would get by purchasing the macbook pro 13 inch monitor compared to my old computer.
The Macbook will have much better performance than the Dell, if your Dell is like mine always bogged down with adware, malware and viruses. I think the MBP you mentioned will perform fine. The wife has a 13” MBP and it is two years old and it handles CS5 fine.

At first I was going to start the next sentence with “Seriously though” then I thought about it and the last statement really was serious it seems the Dell is always cluttered with junk.

You will not have problems picking up and using Mac, it is simple and not like learning a new language.

You can use Boot Camp and put Windows 7 on your machine, there is only one negative to this. On your laptop you will have to partition off space for Windows, you will loose precious space. While in Windows it will not read the Mac part of the hard drive, but you can read the Windows part of the hard drive in Mac. What that means is that you will not be able to pull files off your Mac partition to use in Windows, but you can do the opposite.

Last issue I see with the change, you will need to acquire the Mac version of CS5 and Lightroom. If I remember right Adobe will do this for a fee.