Mac Pro vs my old Windows computer

[HDNitehawk]

Having your operating system, programs and photos all on the same hard drive would probably be even slower than using an external drive with your photos in combination with a fast primary SSD. You don't have to put all the files from camera to SSD to external hard drive. If you keep the Operatng system, programs and RAW-cache on the SSD and the files on the external drive you're probably good. Obviously if you're using the laptop daily for your photographs, this process might bug you in the long run.


Can I ask you this: what type of person are you?

It is faster to keep the Raw files on the hard drive and storage on the other drives. Really where a slow down is noticable on the external or other drives is in load up time of the thumbs. Once I have a folder open I really never find myself thinking either the Mac Pro or the Mac Book Pro is to slow.

I got a good laugh out of the video by the way.

I have been the type of person that for 20 or so years has been cleaning up his friends and families computers once they get full of bugs or need updates. I have been tweaking and playing with them for as long as they have been making computers. Im the guy who in the mid 90's set on the phone with HP for 8 hours trying to install a modem, which in the end took 3 days to install and get it right. Im the guy who has owned several Dells, and the last one my laptop I have now, I had to send it back because they got it wrong. I spent two hours talking to someone on the other side of the earth in India to return it to a Dell center 12 miles from the house. Then when I get it back four weeks later, (a brand new laptop by the way) they had scared the casing. When I talked to the guy in India for another 2 hours, I finally ended the conversation with a few choice words we shouldn't post here and told him to send me a complete new one, they did. Three times in the last 3 year the IT guys have had to wipe the Dell, and I have a disdain for IT guys, each time I have to straighten the machine back out once they finish with it. If you need a windows machine, build it custom never buy off the shelf.

At this point in my life, I am the type of person that just wants to buy something and it works. After I went and bought an Apple computer, Apple router, Apple Television, Iphone and Ipad, brought them home and plugged them in and ....they just worked. I didn't even have to talk to the guy in India. It felt good.

But I will say this, I have two IMac's and the Mac Pro in the house. I loaded bootcamp on all three machines and they are the best Window's machines I have ever bought off the shelf. I use them for gaming, even though I am an old man by gaming standards I still play Lineage 2 occasionally. Honestly I think it was easier loading Windows with Bootcamp on an apple machine than it is loading Windows on a PC. Apple gives you all your drivers.

Edit: thinking about it a bit more, buying a Mac and using it as a Windows machine might be a very good idea. I haven't found any hidden Mac programs or bull on Bootcamp. Unlike buying a Dell or HP.