Been using windows too long, getting use to mac again
I have graduated high school, went to get a new mac, I haven't used a mac for many years. I'm following my high school major for video production. I wanna know if I should work on my video editing on a mac since I use my windows computer to make the videos. I use hypercam 3 OR camstudio for screen recordings on my videos. I mostly make World of Warcraft videos and like I said, I haven't used a mac in years, so if anyone can, help me out please. I'm still using my HP Pavilion, Windows 7, g6t-2000 Notebook PC 64-bit for my recording and gonna use my MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.1), Video Production for my video editing and posting.
Apple has been moving away more away from the professional use market for their machines and focusing more on the consumer market for smaller devices.
The MacPro has been pulled from Europe and hasn't seen a upgrade in ages which has caused many video pros to move to Avid on Windows 7 towers instead
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/01/video-pros-apple-needs-to-acknowledge-the-p ro-industry-and-fast/
Also Apple has now moved to a annual OS X release cycle, which wrecks even more havoc on established workflows as developers of Mac software now have to maintain so many different versions for each OS X version. Whereas on Windows 7, it's supported as is until 2020, (Windows versions usually last a decade on average)
Also like 3D gamers, the Windows towers are more configurable with more hardware options, not so on the Mac where you cant' harldy find video card upgrades anywhere.
Apple also has been sealing up their hardware more, the Retina is non-user serviceable , not upgrade-able, so your stuck with the RAM and storage that came with the machine.
So ideally the Mac isn't as good as a long term professional choice for video anymore, however a laptop isn't ideal for doing video production anyway due to it's limited cooling and processors, due to battery capability and thin design.
The Mac can be used on the road of course, but the main workhorse will be the office/home tower and better longterm value and the future is Avid on Windows now unfortunatly.
It seems you already have the MacBook Pro, so your stuck with it but you can install Windows 7 in bootcamp and thus use Avid there to some degree and also enjoy OS X for personal use.
Better hurry to get a Windows 7 Pro disk/license, Microsoft is bent on Windows 8 confusion.
Windows in BootCamp or Virtual Machine?
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