Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC Apple Vs PC

[francis newman (francis]

George

Photoshop was a Mac only app when it was first introduced and I suspect Mac 
sales still outstrip Win as most creatives work on Macs. Aperture is not a 
direct equivalent to Photoshop, the Adobe equivalent being Lightroom. But I can 
also recommend Pixelmator as a low cost alternative to Photoshop, it does most 
of what the average non pro user would need and only costs 30 bucks.

Incidentally I can recommend the OpenOffice as a free alternative to MS Office. 
Files are compatible

Francis

On 25 Jan 2012, at 16:55, George P. wrote:

> I, too, just got a 27" iMac.  I love it.  I've always like Apple/Mac 
> products, but used PCs both at work (what they gave me) and at home (price).
>  
> I got MS Office for Mac with mine, so all those files are compatible.  I 
> would think that for pretty much any application, there's a mac version, or a 
> mac equivalent (if you're not so hooked on a PC app that you can't transition 
> to a mac equivalent).  For example, Photoshop may or may not be available for 
> Mac, but the equivalent is called "Aperture" and seems to do everything I 
> need it to do (though I'm no pro!).  So I'll sacrifice my Photoshop for 
> Aperture and work my pics in that from now on.
>  
> But what impressed me most was setting up my printer - an 8 year old Epson.  
> Plugged it in (USB) and the Mac detected it and asked if I wanted it to go 
> find the drivers for it.  Uh, yes, thank you.  Then it asked if I wanted it 
> to install said drivers.  Why, sure!  2 minutes later, I was printing.  Since 
> this is my first Mac, it seems fair to compare it to my first PC - which took 
> a full day just to get the stupid thing to print one page.  But since that 
> was many moons ago, it's probably *not* fair to make that comparison.  I'm 
> told that modern PCs are almost as good as the mac in that regard.  But it 
> sure was impressive nonetheless.
>  
> gp
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