I’m gonna add something to your thing about drivers, the WHQL certified drivers are not necessarily the best thing for notebooks at times. Take for example the GPU, the two big companies ATI and nVidia really lack good drivers for their mobile GPUs, there are a couple of modded drivers which are tuned specifically for mobile GPUs. Helping both stability and battery life, OmegaDrivers is one that comes into mind and Guru3D is the other. Not surprisingly, those are for PC only as well… I wonder why.

Okay, Nikon is a 3rd-party from the two software giants. Why don’t you get on the case of AutoCAD whose last release for the Mac system was in 1992? Companies will drop software based on what makes sense for them financially. Mac users should stop calling companies ignorant or hateful, if software is late, slow or non-existent for their OS. Rather, why not just focus your energy to telling the company that there is a base audience group.

Does it surprise Mac users that software development for the Mac is not the priority for countless software (and hardware) development companies?

So why do Mac users get upset when product development for the Mac is often not on equal footing and therefore often lags, lags, lags what is available for Windows?

For most companies, there is no business case to treat Mac with equal footing as Windows. Do the math. Why should 8% market share have the same priority as 90% market share?

I only bought a Mac when I got a cast-iron guarantee that I could put Windows on it if I needed to. That was a couple of years ago and I have NEVER once needed Windows on that machine for anything related to design or photography.

I use a PC at my office, as it works just fine, but I know many who use Macs only. In other words, most people can do without a PC just fine if they want to – some people just don’t want to.

It demonstrates that even Windows can be stable

The manufacturing companies of notebooks take care to test their systems well. I suppose they fine tune the O.S., using well tested drivers too, that’s why it is more stable than “Retail Box” Windows (in average terms, because it would depend on the hardware you use to run it)

If you ever build your own system (PC based), take care to use “certified” hardware and drivers for the Operating System you plan to install on it. And proper software too (so much important)

Even taking those cares, maybe a specific Mac runs more stable for your own needs, it could depend on your tasks, hardware, software.
The less hardware and software, the more stable…

I appreciate what you’re doing.. but think a little bit more about your posts because this one is just idiotic.

Here is an interesting article:

http://neowin.net/news/main/08/12/18/apple-beats-all-competitors-on-reliability-support-again

But on the other hand, freedom and liberty is also the opposite of Vista.

But XP is about right

1. He/she is thinking of selling a full kit of Nikon gear for a Canon, just because of a perception that Nikon may not be as close to Apple as Microsoft?? Now that is fickle! Anyway, I use Nikon and a Mac without any problems whatsoever. I prefer my camera to my OS – even if I had to switch OS – no big deal! Macs can be dual booted – I thought everyone knew that.

2. The camera he/she calls the “amazing” 5D Mark II turns out to be not so amazing after all. I have had my hands on it and am a little underwhelmed – certainly doesn’t match the hype from Canon. The first batch we received had sensor problems too; That would be amazing for someone who switches alright!!

What I was trying to say was that Apple does not make “a more powerful and relevant system for imaging professionals”. That it places restrictions on the performance of its own said system.

Some specific software (beyond digital photography, like 3D animation, etc) are not available for Mac, or with limitations.

But I agree Mac’s OS is likely to be more stable. However if you use the proper PC hardware and software, it should be almost as stable and reliable as a Mac.

OSX are specifically tunned for Mac’s hardware, so it runs smoothly.
Microsoft Windows is designed upon another platform, and also for wider combination of hardware,and that makes it more likely to have stability or incompatibility issues.
But if you buy a Branded PC Workstation with its operating system, you should reach the stability of the Mac workstation system.

No system is perfect either.
The less hardware and software you have installed, the more reliable the system should be.

I like OSX in many aspects (that differs and its better than Windows), but I would miss some software that is only available for PC (Windows or Linux) – Of course, I’m NOT talking about games, but a wide working applications group.

Too bad that people spend their time to make viruses and such kind of things…
I protect my systems carefully, so almost never had a problem related to it.

I made a synth of my living room. Its actually very cool, but I don’t think its all that practical. But yes, MSFT needs to bring silverlight to the Mac.

It’s been shown time and again that people using computers for business (i.e., professional) purposes tend to specialize on particular pieces of software. Do you think Joe McNally could talk just as well about digital signalling as he could about comparing histograms in photoshop?

I’m glad for you that you understand hardware design and limitations, and are able to take that into account in your purchasing habits. But your own personal anecdotal evidence does not an argument make.

Whether it technically makes sense or not, Apple seems to be entrenched among the creative set, which has its roots in when it actually DID matter. So this market among professionals does exist, and likely will continue to exist (and perhaps even grow stronger, as Apple’s market share does), despite what voltage-heads may think. For that reason, it really is in Nikon’s best interests to continue to support the market; otherwise, they’re giving solid evidence of thumbing their nose at professionals and concentrating on soccer moms.

My adobe software runs smoother and faster on my mac vs the pc equivalent. The only downside to macs is that they cost more and don’t offer as many games. Regular software such as Adobe, Microsoft Office and such are still offered for mac.

The real point is like many commenters have said, is getting results and not how you get there. Both Windows (PCs) and Macs get results. However sometimes you can not get to your results due to a virus, malware, spyware, etc on a PC. That’s risky business when you are running a full-time business and it depends on the reliability and importance of your pictures.