EricW Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 OK, I'm STILL toying of going with a dual-boot Mac. It may come in the form of a iMac or all-out desktop, with the laptop to follow laters. What software should I get for? - Building Web Pages (we're talking light duty here. I currently use an older copy of GoLive and it works fine.) - Photo Editing (using photoshop right now, but I only use about 2% of Photoshop's feature set. I really am looking for the digital analogue to a color/b&w darkroom. I am not a graphic designer.) - Accounting (I'm on Quickbooks right now and hate it. But for $200, I hate it less than paying super big dinero for a custom job. What's avail in Mac land besides QB? Anything? - CAD (Is there anything resembling an AutoCad equivalent in Mac land? I need robust 2D editing with .dwg or .dxf output.) - Database (Is Filemaker still the defacto standard? Does anybody have experience with the newer incarnation(s)? I like it, but it was kind of a bear to do anything complicated in it before. - Programming Is there a (shudder) Visual Basic analogue for the Mac yet? Anyone have any experience with code portability now that Macs and PCs have the same (or similar) hardware? Thanks in advance! E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nik Habicht Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 OK, I'm STILL toying of going with a dual-boot Mac. It may come in the form of a iMac or all-out desktop, with the laptop to follow laters. What software should I get for? - Photo Editing (using photoshop right now, but I only use about 2% of Photoshop's feature set. I really am looking for the digital analogue to a color/b&w darkroom. I am not a graphic designer.) E Almost everyone only uses a fraction of what PS can do --- but it's THE application as far as a digital darkroom is concerned. FWIW, depending on the age of your PS version it might require an upgrade, but ADOBE will transfer your license from one platform to the other, if you contact them. That's assuming you bought a version at some point..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outerlimits Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 OK, I'm STILL toying of going with a dual-boot Mac. It may come in the form of a iMac or all-out desktop, with the laptop to follow laters. What software should I get for? - Building Web Pages (we're talking light duty here. I currently use an older copy of GoLive and it works fine.) - Photo Editing (using photoshop right now, but I only use about 2% of Photoshop's feature set. I really am looking for the digital analogue to a color/b&w darkroom. I am not a graphic designer.) - Accounting (I'm on Quickbooks right now and hate it. But for $200, I hate it less than paying super big dinero for a custom job. What's avail in Mac land besides QB? Anything? - CAD (Is there anything resembling an AutoCad equivalent in Mac land? I need robust 2D editing with .dwg or .dxf output.) - Database (Is Filemaker still the defacto standard? Does anybody have experience with the newer incarnation(s)? I like it, but it was kind of a bear to do anything complicated in it before. - Programming Is there a (shudder) Visual Basic analogue for the Mac yet? Anyone have any experience with code portability now that Macs and PCs have the same (or similar) hardware? Thanks in advance! E building web pages-iweb will do just fine based on yer requirements. same with iphoto for photo editing at a smaller scale. database-yea, filemaker still the shitz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 iLife and iWork will cost you about $160 and provide web design, documents, presentations, Photos (not much of editing though), iMovie and iDVD. All Apple software is interconnected so you can design stuff on one application and feed it into another seamlessly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcic Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 OK, I'm STILL toying of going with a dual-boot Mac. It may come in the form of a iMac or all-out desktop, with the laptop to follow laters.What software should I get for? - Building Web Pages (we're talking light duty here. I currently use an older copy of GoLive and it works fine.) vi - Photo Editing(using photoshop right now, but I only use about 2% of Photoshop's feature set. I really am looking for the digital analogue to a color/b&w darkroom. I am not a graphic designer.) iPhoto or Aperture should meed all of your needs. - Accounting(I'm on Quickbooks right now and hate it. But for $200, I hate it less than paying super big dinero for a custom job. What's avail in Mac land besides QB? Anything? I think quick books is it. - CAD(Is there anything resembling an AutoCad equivalent in Mac land? I need robust 2D editing with .dwg or .dxf output.) There isn't anything that I know of that is good for CAD on the Mac. - Database(Is Filemaker still the defacto standard? Does anybody have experience with the newer incarnation(s)? I like it, but it was kind of a bear to do anything complicated in it before. Thats a tough one. It really depends on what you want to do. You can install mySQL or Portgress but it really depends on how you want to interface with it and what you want to do with it. - ProgrammingIs there a (shudder) Visual Basic analogue for the Mac yet? Anyone have any experience with code portability now that Macs and PCs have the same (or similar) hardware? Realbasic looks to be close to VB but it depends on what you need to do. There is also Perl, C, Applescript, Cooca, etc. Apple XCode is a decent IDE but again it depends on what you want to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted September 26, 2007 Author Share Posted September 26, 2007 Thanks! For photo editing the guy at the store recommended Aperture and PS Elements. Not sure if that's an acceptable PS substitute or not. The one thing that I was stoked about was how PDF is seamlessly woven throughout the Mac now. That beats the hell out of having to fool PC software into printing PDFs which mostly kinda works sometimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritinUSA Posted September 26, 2007 Share Posted September 26, 2007 .pdf rocks on the Mac. I love the way that I can take any document, photo, email and turn it into a .pdf document with a couple of clicks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wide45 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 Can't imagine using iPhoto for anything. I've been hacking up pictures with Graphic Converter for years. Consider it part of the basic toolkit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo23 Posted September 27, 2007 Share Posted September 27, 2007 (edited) Thanks!For photo editing the guy at the store recommended Aperture and PS Elements. Not sure if that's an acceptable PS substitute or not. The one thing that I was stoked about was how PDF is seamlessly woven throughout the Mac now. That beats the hell out of having to fool PC software into printing PDFs which mostly kinda works sometimes... Hey Eric, You should give my dad a gingle. ( MajicTH on the forum) he is a massive computer guy. Big with Mac's too Thats what I am on right now a dual core mac. Edited September 27, 2007 by Turbo23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnleveritt Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 What software should I get for? - Building Web Pages (we're talking light duty here. I currently use an older copy of GoLive and it works fine.) IWeb - Photo Editing(using photoshop right now, but I only use about 2% of Photoshop's feature set. I really am looking for the digital analogue to a color/b&w darkroom. I am not a graphic designer.) Adobe will give you a version of Photoshop for the Mac, if your a registered owner of Photoshop for the PC. What software should I get for? - Accounting (I'm on Quickbooks right now and hate it. But for $200, I hate it less than paying super big dinero for a custom job. What's avail in Mac land besides QB? Anything? They make Quickbooks for the Mac, and if they are like Adobe, you can get a Mac version if your a registered owner for the PC. What software should I get for? - CAD (Is there anything resembling an AutoCad equivalent in Mac land? I need robust 2D editing with .dwg or .dxf output.) Anything from Vellum., If it's good enough for Burt Ruttan to build space ships with, then..... And it will read AutoCad files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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