After 3 years experience using a MacBook Pro for work and photo editing. Lightroom licenses work on both PC and Mac and the disk – if you bought it has a install for both, so that is at least one software item tat you won’t have to buy. New software will also be required though all the big name Photo products work in the same way. However – don’t think that switching is all plain sailing, there are new things to learn and don’t believe that Macs never crash or that you won’t have to read a manual again. On a Mac you boot the machine from an external drive, and repair the corrupt files using a utility. Say your system becomes corrupt, (which happens often on a PC) – to recover the PC, you have to reinstall Windows on the C drive, and this wipes all of your content from that drive. And the Mac OS can be booted from an external drive – That’s right, you can easily create a bootable external backup of your entire computer and just go and boot another Mac from your drive! This has saved me several times. More reliable, Has features like automatic backup Requires less fiddling under the hood Really good at connecting to external devices 64Bit on modern hardware Potential to really make the most of multicore processors. I think that Apple OSX Snow Leopard is currently the best OS for photo editing. And vice versa - any changes made on your iOS devices are automatically reflected on your Mac. When you make changes on your Mac like editing a photo, marking a Favorite, or adding to an album, they’re kept up to date on your iPhone, your iPad, and. Here is an article in PC magazine 2007 that rated Mac OSX Leopard – as being “better than Windows Vista for most consumers” My conclusion was much the same, easier and more fun to use, lots of useful features – particularly automatic backup and so far much more stable. Incidentally I bought mine from Dixons Tax free at the airport, which was the cheapest place I could find even compared to US pricing. I was so frustrated with all the problems with my PC’s that I decided to buy an Apple Laptop to try out the Mac again in 2007. I used PC’s on Windows 2000 and then XP but I then had so many problems with hardware incompatibilities, I updated the firmware on a motherboard and it then refused to work at all, inability to get support from the motherboard manufacturer drove me in the direction of Apple as they at least support the whole system. The Apple hardware was based on PowerPC chips in the early and mid 2000′ was very slow compared to PC’s of the time.

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