In an interesting conversation with a certain vendor today, and knowing what I know from being "in the scene" it's clear that Apple products make up the majority of our devices today. In fact, looking at the statistics from La Vida Leica over the last six months, the top five platforms are:
- Macintosh - 48.07%
- Windows - 36.68%
- iPad - 9.60%
- iPhone - 3.10%
- Linux - 1.36%
The Mac makes up nearly 50% of all accesses! But wait a moment. Add up the
Apple products in that top five and you get almost 61%! I've been in "the industry" (IT) for a long, long time - and I remember a time when Apple had one foot in the grave. As a Mac user myself (and a shareholder) I'm quite pleased with this.
So anyway, to the point of the thread...
For my image editing, storage and organization, working on the site - basically everything I do both personally and professionally - I use a mix of Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and iPad. Some time this year I'll be adding a MacBook Air (for travel to replace the MacBook Pro) and possibly upgrading the Mac Pro - maybe with an iMac.
Oddly enough, I never liked Macs until Mac OS X came out. I blindly bought a G4 with OS X 10.1 on it back in 2001, and it literally changed everything. Haven't bought anything non-Apple since. I used to run PCs with Windows, PCs and workstations with Linux and Solaris. While I still use the latter for servers, I no longer use any of them on the desktop. Heck, I haven't used Windows since NT! I just like the user experience, the design of the hardware and software - and the integration of it all. And it all "just works" as Steve used to say. I suspect most people do.
I think the 13" MacBook Air is probably the ultimate travel laptop available today, especially for us digital Leica shooters. Why? Besides the obvious build quality, being a Mac, yada yada - its screen is large enough and speed fast enough to handle post-processing with aplomb. The icing on the cake is the integrated SD card slot.
I fairly sure I know what the answers are going to be just by looking at the statistics above, but what's
your platform - and why?