I'm thinking of switching

after years of using a pc, i'm thinking of switching to a mac book.
my question: won't i have to buy all new software? ms office, games, etc.

You can use Boot Camp to run Windows on your new Mac, so that you can still use all your old software when you need it.
Your Windows software will not work when your computer is booted into OS X, but the fact that you can still run Windows means that you don't have to buy all new software all at once. You can, for example, make all your new software purchases Mac versions, so that over time you eventually replace all your old Windows software.

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For the first time I think to switch LR

I'm really surprise with myself having the idea to swith to Lightroom.
I've adopted Aperture since the launch, I've immediately loved his workflow. The first 1.0 with many bugs but with the confidence in Apple that new versions will resolve it (and in part it has happened). The rebate of the price, very serious solution. The efforts to give a real usable version changing the development team. I've always supported Aperture, I've also made many show of this software in cooperation with my local re-seller of Apple because I have really thinked that Apple with Aperture will arrive in photo as Final Cut arrived in the video. I speak always the best about it.
But, there is a "but".
After 1 year and half the progress is stop. No idea of when 2.0 will be released, no idea of which kind of new functions will have. In the same time Adobe is really aggressive and competitive, many people I know are switching to Adobe solution because they are more "sure" for the future (and when you "married" with a library concept and software it's a very important thing, specially if we are speaking about raw adjustment settings that will be lost if you change software). Yesterday, during a show made by Adobe I've study very well Lightroom for the first time, I understand the potential and also the possibility to convert my library.
For the first time I really think to switch.
What do you suggest? I know that I'm in Aperture forum so all of us are using that software, but please, help me to understand why it should be better for me stay in Aperture without any idea on the future of this software.
Thank you!
Max
p.s. sorry if my english is not perfect.
G5 Dual 1.8 | 2gb ram | Ati X800 XT 256mb | Cinema Display 23" + Dell 18" Mac OS X (10.4.6) MacBook Pro 15.4 2.0 ghz | 2gb ram

Like many here, I purchased Aperture almost when it came out, and followed all of the updates. I'd used Aperture for over a year when Lightroom 1.0 was released.
When Lightroom 1.0 was first released, I tried a 30 day trial. I shoot landscape photos, and had a Canon RAW file that was particularly difficult to process and extract because of the dynamic range of the image. When I opened that file in Lightroom, the RAW output from Lightroom was noticably better than Aperture. Without any adjustment, it was better than I could accomplish with Aperture under any condition.
In the end, I use Lightroom for one reason: the quality of RAW extracts. (Photography is about the image.) A bonus is that it's noticeably faster than Aperture on my equipment (Dual G5 and a MacBook Pro). I'm not so fond of Lightroom's modal interface. Aperture is much more convenient in that respect. But the image quality is the prime consideration, and Aperture's RAW processing isn't as good as Lightroom's, at least not yet.
I'm keeping Aperture up to date. I've also tried to organize my files and photo library so that switching between the two applications is possible. If Aperture pulls out in front I'll go back.
There are two good reviews of both programs by two different people. One is a Lightroom person that tests Aperture, and the other is an Aperture person that tests Lightroom. They differ on which application they prefer. If you read both, you'll get a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of both.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/05/lightroom-vs-aperture.html>
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/05/aperture-vs-lightoom.html>
Good luck.
Jim

My E72 and why I'm thinking of switching to Androi...

I'm a Nokia apologist. There's no denying it, I've been one of the people on these forums over the last few months who wades in amongst the rants and rages and says 'hey guys, it's not so bad, there'll probably be a firmware update one day' and waves a little Finnish flag in Nokia's honour.
And I have loved my E72. One of the main reasons I got it was so I could be the only guy in meetings at work who DIDN'T whip out an iPhone (*shudder*). Instead I get out my cool classy E Series Nokia, like a man who means BUSINESS. It felt great being the only guy who hadn't spent 700 Euros on an overrated touchscreen toy made by a bunch of control freaks for people who can't HANDLE a real phone. That's right.
I still love it. Sort of. I love that the battery lasts a good four days. FOUR DAYS. I enjoy waving it in the faces of my iPhone-owning colleagues and taunting them with its luxurious battery life. It looks beautiful, so shiny and professional, and feels so RIGHT on the rare occasions when I actually use it as a telephone.
But. There's always a but. And for me it's email.
I don't know what it is about Exchange email programs, but my friends with iPhones say the same thing. I didn't have any problems setting up my email accounts on my E72, but I just couldn't believe it when I found that MfE didn't tell me when new emails arrived in one of my subfolders. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the universe who uses server-side rules to filter emails into folders. HELLO?? ANYBODY OUT THERE WITH ME?? MfE would synchronise my subfolders, but if I wanted to see if anything new had arrived, I had to go in and check every single folder manually. I've asked about this several times on these forums, and can now only conclude that I'm the only person in the universe who uses server-side rules and that I'm insane.
In any case, this wasn't acceptable to me, but luckily I had a license for Roadsync, which I used on my previous N82. Ok, it's kind of **bleep** having to run a separate application, but it does the trick, and LO AND BEHOLD, when I go through my list of subfolders it actually indicates which folders have new mail in them! PRAISE THE LORD!
Or so I thought. Now I discover that any emails I send aren't synchronised with the Exchange server, so there is absolutely no record of them when I'm back at my PC. Once again, I'm probably the only person in the universe who wants to keep a record of all the emails I send. But this is not acceptable - I need to refer to old emails far too often for me to trust sending anything important on my phone now.
And then there's the awful memory management. If I dare to so much as open ONE BROWSER and, yes I know this is audacious, view ONE web page - half the time the phone runs out of memory and borks. ONE BROWSER. This phone has plenty of RAM, there must be something wrong with how it's managed.
And another email thing! My Gmail account works fine in the standard application, except the HTML never loads and I can never retrieve the full messages. I have the Gmail java app installed which I could use instead, but I refuse to resort to that on principle.
So I find myself in the peculiar situation of having bought a dedicated, hardcore MESSAGING phone, which doesn't have a nice big screen, or any other frills and bells and whistles, cause hey, it's a MESSAGING phone. But it turns out, and it has taken me months to realise this, is absolutely awful when it comes to messaging. Subfolders in Exchange!? Is that so much to ask for? And what about being able to multi-task a couple of apps without running out of RAM? Five years ago I had an HP 6515, a truly awful awful awful phone, but the email management on it was absolutely perfect. It did what I expected it to i,e. allowed me to manage my emails just like I do on my laptop. I actually still have it somewhere, maybe I should dig it out!
I hate flashy touchscreen phones. I really do. I hate the way their batteries run dry if you so much as breathe near them. But I'm now seriously thinking of switching to one of those **bleep** new Android phones that HTC is churning out. I have no idea if the email clients are any better on Android, but if nothing else, it would satisfy my insatiable Google fetish.
And at least I still wouldn't be another mindless drone with an iPhone.
In the unlikely event that anyone has made it this far, congratulations and thanks for listening. My therapist told me I had to get all of this off my chest.
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I see your point. I have also resisted fat touchscreen phones and waited a lot for the perfect one, the E72, only to find it it is not that perfect.
In a way, it matches all I wanted... native strong encryption, decent hardware, etc. But it has some problems.
The issues with email are a problem in such a business communicator, but to me they are not very relevant (I don't need to synch my work email).
To me that biggest deal breaker so far are the problems with memory. I feel like I have a new gadget and am already getting out of error messages as if it's an outdated brick.
I have an 6220 Classic that boots with twice as much free RAM as the E72. Granted, the OS is a bit simpler but not all that much. I don't know what kind of muppet memory management is going on in the E72 but I boot with about 40 MB free RAM and after loading a few resident apps it is down to 31 MB. Then the more I use the phone the more it leaks until eventually it is down to <20 and either reboots itself or I do it myself.
After some hard resets I concluded that not installing fishy software does help with the leaks, but not much.,,, the thing leaks just by being alive. Every time you see that breathing light exhale it means that a KB has died and went to Symbian heaven.
Running fat apps like Ovi Maps, Sygic Mobile, Skype, Opera Mobile and others is a problem unless nothing else is running.
Are you taking a walk navigating with Maps but want to take a few photos of the scenery? I did that this weekend. Well maybe you'll be able to open the camera app while navigating... hmm "Out of Memory Error"... now, let's try again... There, I closed the Log, no more apps open... Ohh look, it opened the Camera, great... lets take some photos....-click- -click- ok... back to Maps to move on oh no... Ovi Maps closed itself.
Pity, pity... Could be a decent phone but the RAM issue is getting on my nerves. I'm starting to doubt it will ever be fixed by firmware flashing. The low amount of ram and its poor management is to me the single biggest flaw of the E72.
Unlike you, I feel Android is too immature and will only bring many limitations and other problems. Right now I'm out of ideas, except perhaps waiting to see what WiMo 7 is bringing... I do like the 9.3 FP2 but the overall experience is a bit annoying right now.... I'm always waiting to see which app will be closed due to low ram.
PS: I do love the one key torch, and truth be told, most if it all. If it only had memory beyond 2004-standards.

Hard Drive bottle neck.   Running SRT thinking of switch to SSD

I did the "windows experience index" on windows 7 on my new custom build. I got 7.9 (which is the best score) on everything but the primary hard disk. I got a 5.9 score for the primary hard disk.
I set up the drives with Intel's SRT with one 120 Patriot Wildfire Sata 3 drive (only using 60 gigs of it I am using for the SRT seeing that is the max and the other 60 gigs I partitioned it for extra storage space) and a 1 teribyte HDD sata 3 in the two sata 3 ports on my Gigabyte motherboard.   My Media drives are two 1.5 tb in a Raid 0 in the two Sata 2 slots but i don't think the "windows experience index" uses those in their test.
I was thinking of switching this in hopes of a better score and even better performace (even though I am pretty damn happy with the way it works now even with what windows experience index score of 5.9 is telling me)
I have a total of Two 120 Patriot Wildfire Sata 3 drives on hand. I was thinking I should use them in the two Sata 3 ports on my Gigabyte mother board in a Raid 0 which should give me close to 240gig of system drive and a really fast rate of data transfer.
All i am using this computer for is CS5.5 Production Suite and some web sites most all CMS websites these days (maybe a few games but I am not a big pc gamer)
What does everyone think?   If you think it is a good idea for me to switch to the two ssd in Raid 0.   I am wondering if I should reformat all the drives first?   I won't have to change anything on my media drive seeing that is on the Sata 2 part. If anyone has done this before I would love to hear how you went about it.
Oh and off the subject I documented the whole build and posted more than half of the videos on www.brentdolan.com   I am eventually going to come up with another name but can't think of any. any suggestions?
Thanks to everyone in advance.
Brent
www.brentdolanmedia.com

Thanks everyone for your input.   I think for now I will just leave the system the way it is. Why mess up a good thing right?
Just wondering if there was any extra advantage.   My current set up works awesome. It is a dream to edit on but i was wondering if it could be possibly better.
I edit in AVCHD footage.   The footage edits great. Alll real time play back. Exporting to a H.264 is basicly in real time (10 minute clips exports in a little under 10 minutes)
So really what more can i ask for?   I guess I am just being greedy. I should of went with two 2TB drives in a Raid 0 for my media drives but I got the others on sale (at the time was strapped for cash)
Since I built this machine so many more projects followed.
I guess it is like the old saying "build it and they will come"
Thanks again all for helping me make up my mind.
Brent

My screen is completely white, i've tried holding lock and home buttons as seen on you tube something called 'white screen of death' its goes black (think it switches off) then back to the white screen need help fast please!

my screen is completely white, i've tried holding lock and home buttons as seen on you tube something called 'white screen of death' its goes black (think it switches off) then back to the white screen need help fast please!

If you have not done a factory reset on the device, I recommend doing a complete factory reset.
Factory Reset - Warning this will reset device back to original factory settings.
This method will not erase any MDN/MIN information
Turn off the phone
Press Power + Volume Up/Down at the same time and hold until display will show a triage android screen
Display will show:
Reboot system Now
Apply sdcard:update.zip
Wipe Data/Factory Reset
Wipe Cache Partition
Use VOL Down key to scroll down to "Wipe Data/Factory Reset", press home icon to select option and wipe device.
Display shows "All user data will be wiped out", press VOLUME Up to continue or VOLUME Down to exit.
Press Volume Up
Press Home to select "Reset System Now" - device will reboot
If the problem persist I recommend having a store technician take a look at the device.
Copy and paste the link below into your browser's address bar for the store locator.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/storelocator/index.jsp

Thinking of switching to BT... but have old main s...

Hi everyone, currently with Sky but thinking of switching to BT. Our phone sockets were installed in the late 1980s.
I have a mains socket coming in downstairs and two extension sockets (both in bedrooms). One of the extensions has the current Sky router connected to it.
If I go with BT I'm assuming the new hub will have to connect to the main socket (ie downstairs). My PC is in one of the bedrooms, there's no option of moving it elsewhere. It's too far away for cabling (plus cats would chew cables and would be a trip hazard). I'm guessing I'd have to connect the PC wirelessly; do BT recommened a card/adaptor for doing this or could I buy my own (if so, which?).
Our current broadband is incredibly slow and quite often drops. The wireless signal isn't that great either downstairs.
I don't want to have to spend out on an engineer and setup costs if this just isn't possible. I'm also a radio ham operator and worried about interference from hubs and any of those horrid PLT devices.
Any help/advice would be most appreciated!

Hi
As Keith mentions about BT Infinity, if you do go up that route the infinity engineer will re-arrange what is your main socket although prob not install new ones.
You don't have to use the power line adaptors although they are only supplied with vision/you view.
If you just opt for ADSL BB Bt would only change/alter your setup for a price.
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5 year Customer thinking of switching to AT&T

I have been a very loyal customer of Verizon Wireless for 5 years now and have loved the customer service and all the equipment we have purchased over the years until now!
The first week of November 2010, I went in to my normal Verizon Store and upgraded 3 phones (all of which were regular phones upgraded to cellphones.) and also purchased a wireless remote connection card that all my devices including my home computer, could "supposively" work off of. WRONG. We have not been able to work the wireless internet card ever since we got it in NOVEMBER 2010.
Also, our bill is ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH! We have NEVER had a Bill over $350.00 and that is including 4 Cell Phones and a Netbook! I got a bill in January 2011 for $950.00. Then in Febrauary I got a bill for $505.00 making our total bill $1,505.00. WHY????? The first week in December 2010 I signed and NEW plan at my Verizon Store to pay only $99.00 per month for phone service with 700 minutes and NOW i found out that we are still having to pay for 1,400 minute plan.
We were also suppose to receive 3 Rebate cards (2) for $100 (for upgrading to Droid2) and one for $50.00 for the regular cellphone upgrade. We received (2) Cards 1 for $100 and 1 for $50 and the Rebate Center held the other $100 rebate card which we finally received a couple of weeks ago.
I am a very disappointed customer and have spent MANY hard earn money with your company. I hate to even think of switching to another company but this loyal customer NOW can't even get anyone to help her to get the equipment working half the time. We still can not use the wireless internet card yet we are paying $60.00 per month the service.
If we could just have some type of customer assitance with this ASTRONOMICAL bill that we had not anticipated having due to signing a new plan, we would consider remaining Verizon Wireless customers.
Regards,
Sondrea
{edited for privacy}

Since this is not a customer service forum, but a peer to peer forum, you would do better getting a response from Verizon if you either called *611 from your cell or 800-922-0204 from your landline phone. You could also email them from THIS page.
Hope you get it worked out.

Thinking about switching from single-app to full CC. Is it possible to switch back at a later date or am I committed to a year of full membership?

Hi there,
I'm currently paying for Flash but it looks like I may have to use Photoshop and After Effects too, so I was thinking about switching to the full plan. However if I don't end up needing Photoshop or After Effects is it possible to downgrade my membership to single-app in the future?
Thanks in advance!
Dan

Be sure to select the MONTHLY subscription so you may stop the subscription at any time and not have to pay a penalty for cancelling a year's subscription

Thinking of switching

Yes, you read that right. I am actually thinking of switching to a different distribution. The situation with the Current repo has gotten that bad... Really, we are miles behind every distro other than Debian. Arch is not bleeding-edge any more; it has become trailing-edge. The Testing repo isn't quite stable enough to use, but there's plenty of stuff in it (e.g. Gnome 2.12) that is stable enough to move into Current, but hasn't been moved. Why? Sure, it's compiled with GCC 4, but would that even be a problem?
Come to think of it... Why wasn't everything switched over to GCC 4 before libtool-slay, so that we'd have an up-to-date Current branch during the slaying?
Look, sorry if I come across as trollish, or don't quite know what I'm talking about (probably the case), but I think I have a fair reason to be. Maybe Arch will be a viable distro again in a month or two, but as of right now it's very, very far behind where it ought to be.
(Frugalware is starting to look rather attractive...)

Gullible Jones wrote:Come to think of it... Why wasn't everything switched over to GCC 4 before libtool-slay, so that we'd have an up-to-date Current branch during the slaying?
Good point.
But...do you realize how impatient this makes you look? It's been a month, that's all! Yes, it would be nice to have a tiny bit of news about when it might be all over but as soon as it is over you'll have the one of the most bleeding edge distros around (again). Surely that is worth waiting? But, if you got nothing better to do than reinstall distros all the time then why even bother posting about it, just get distro hopping.
I assume you hope to elicit some news about when it will all be over and the word is "soon". I have also been informed that there are going to be some changes round here soon...
Everyone should have recognised this period for what it is, a necessary evil. I think it could have been handled much better but regardless of that when it is done it is done and I hope some lessons might be learned.
So, don't bother switching. If the end of libtool slay and gcc was announced on Wednesday along with chalk of new dev positions to get things ticking along you'll be pissed if you switch now!
I am considering a new motto:
"When the going gets tough, the not-so-tough piss off to Ubuntu!"
Lightweights!

Thinking of switching to Blackberry

I have been a Treo user but the Storm looks great and I was thinking of switching over but I had some questions about the Blackberry and its software.
I use Office a good bit on my Treo and was wondering if the Blackberry has the Documents to Go app like the Treo. I also have to confess that I am a serious Bejeweled addict and was checking out the game software that could be put on the Blackberry. There didn't seem to be much and I was wondering if anybody had any opinions on the games that are available for the Blackberry.
I was appreciate any feedback that anyone has, especially if there are any previous Treo users that have converted over to a Blackberry.

DocumentsToGo - Check.
Bejeweled - Check.
Proceed with purchase and joining the darkside. The treo will seem like yesterday's mold to you.
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Thinking of switching to DVDSP from iDVD

Hi All,
I'm thinking of switching to DVDSP from iDVD but £900 is an awful lot of money for one app. I already use Final Cut Pro 4.5 so the benefit for the upgrade would be almost entirely to switch to DVDSP.
I like the themes in iDVD and generally it works OK but I'd like a little more control over my DVD's and I'm tired of using freeware apps to complete my workflow (like Anamorphicizer and MPEG streamclip). The 16:9 pan and scan issues with iDVD bug me but I just feel that £900 to "work around" Apple's issues is a bit steep. Especially as there's no other option (like an express version or even a standalone package). There's no solution available to existing owners of FCP or FCE.
Anyway I guess my question is, are there any real great enhancements or benefits that I'd get over and above iDVD - I understand that DVDSP is a much more advanced application but in theory I'm only using a fraction of it's power to create home movies?
Any feedback from people who've switched from iDVD to DVDSP (or anyone come to that) would be much appreciated.
Thanks all.
David.
PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25Ghz / 1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) PowerBook 12" 1Ghz / 768MB RAM

Check out
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2215884&#2215884
Most importanly you can get the whole FCP Suite I beleive via upgrade for £139/199 from FCP 4.5 http://www.apple.com/uk/universal/crossgrade/
Each of the elements alone are probably worth the plunge (Motion 2, Soundtrack Pro, DVD SP 4 and FCP 5, the FCP 5 upgrade is nice)

Thinking of switching to the Q10

Dear all,
I am thinking of switching to the Q10 from the iPhone, but there are certain key features that I really depend on and would like to seek your kind advice as to whether BB10 is able to do it.
1. I am using the Gmail app on the iPhone and it has the ability to save the frequently used email addresses that I send to in my browser and autocomplete them when I send it out in the iPhone Gmail app. Will BB10 be able to do this?
2. The ability send as different email addresses as all my work mail gets forwarded to my Gmail account. There are some workarounds that I came across on Crackberry.com and was wondering if anyone knows if the bugs have been worked around i.e. some mails don't come through because a secondary label has been assigned to them in Gmail.
If the above 2 are working soundly, I will most certainly jump on the Q10 as I really miss the keyboard!
Thank you!
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
fi5hbone wrote:
1. I am using the Gmail app on the iPhone and it has the ability to save the frequently used email addresses that I send to in my browser and autocomplete them when I send it out in the iPhone Gmail app. Will BB10 be able to do this?
Email on BB10 is not browser-based. Rather, the on-device email app uses an algorythm to provide you with suggested recipients to emails you create, which you can select or ignore. The suggestions change over time based on your usage patterns. If you want one of the suggested recipients, a quick click on it populates the "to" field with that recipient. So, while it may operate differently than iPhone, it sounds like it indeed does what you desire.
fi5hbone wrote:
2. The ability send as different email addresses as all my work mail gets forwarded to my Gmail account. There are some workarounds that I came across on Crackberry.com and was wondering if anyone knows if the bugs have been worked around i.e. some mails don't come through because a secondary label has been assigned to them in Gmail.
When you forward, you can choose any "from" account that you have integrated to your BB10 device. If you simply reply, it is restricted to coming from the account into which it arrived on the BB10 device. I don't know if this is the "bug" you mention or not, but this is how it functions.
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Thinking to switch on a iMac , what's about noise?

Hi to all,
I'ma pc user that thinking to switch on a iMac Intel 17".
I just wondering about the noise (HD but mostly fan) of the iMac intel. Now I'm working on a Intel P4 Ht extreme and the CPU fan is very very noisy!
I mostly do intesinve vork on Photoshop CS so wondering if the fan of iMac 17" will be always on or if there's no problem with noise.
thanks a lot.

Hi to all,
I'ma pc user that thinking to switch on a iMac Intel
17".
Oh my Gawd, you will LOVE the Intel iMac but go for the 20" and get the additional 256 video ram. Well worth it and you get an amazing display/picture.
I just wondering about the noise (HD but mostly fan)
of the iMac intel. Now I'm working on a Intel P4 Ht
extreme and the CPU fan is very very noisy!
Noise? There is no noise. None. Nada. Zilch and I run my iMac 24/7. It is just on all the time, downloading files or making movies. This is my first iMac and I am so happy to have it. A most excellent machine!
I mostly do intesinve vork on Photoshop CS so
wondering if the fan of iMac 17" will be always on
or if there's no problem with noise.
thanks a lot.
You'll have to opt for Photoshop CS for OSX and again, there is no fan noise. The 20" Intel iMac is very quiet. Promise.
Hudson

I think Side Switch settings maybe can on/off assistivetouch

I think Side Switch settings maybe can on/off assistivetouch.
i think assistivetouch is useful.but sometime when i play games i want to turn it off.
Thank you

What you mean is you want the screen to be able to rotate and you want to have all sounds as well. I think that maybe you don't understand how this works.
System sounds can be muted and controlled two different ways. The screen lock rotation can be controlled in the same manner as well.
Settings>General>Use Side Switch to: Mute System sounds. If this option is selected, the switch on the side of the iPad above the volume rocker will mute system sounds.
If you choose Lock Screen Rotation, then the switch locks the screen. If the screen is locked, you will see a lock icon in the upper right corner next to the battery indicator gauge.
If you have the side switch set to lock screen rotation then the system sound control is in the task bar. Double tap the home button and in the task bar at the bottom, swipe all the way to the right. The speaker icon is all the way to the left. Tap on it and system sounds will return.
If you have the side switch set to mute system sounds, then the screen lock rotation can be accessed via the task bar in the same manner as described above.
This support article from Apple explains how the side switch works.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4085

Thinking about switching to Windows

This is not meant to be a Os X vs Windows thread. I dont think one platform is better than the other, but they have different strengths and weaknesses. What I want to hear is what kind of pitfalls I can expect in regards to live video performance if I go down the Windows way.
Reason I`m asking is:
My Macbook Pro recently died, so I borrowed my friends HP Laptop with similiar specs. He has used it alot for music production, sound of movies etc, and quite a decent graphics card (6xxxm 1gb ati radeon) I wanted to connect a Matrox Dualhead2go to two 1280 x 800 projectors using Resolume. However, I encountered nothing but problems all the way. Couldnt dual monitor resolutions, display went black, drivers stopped working, program had to restart. When it worked, it worked well, but I think I aged 10 years during that gig.
Before that I wanted to buy a stationary shuttle PC, top of the line, 7970 radeon 3gb, Ivy bridge, Dell Touch Screen etc, but now I got a little scared of doing the switch.Having used Macbook Pro`s ever since I started VJìng, I`m very much used to plug and play using Triplehead2go, it just works. I usually use crossplatform software (resolume, after effects) but I also use motion and modul8 from time to time. I can live without however. The simplest choice is to buy a Macbook Pro, I know it, it works. But I like the idea of multiple choices in hardware, the ability to make a semi transportable shuttle and to be able to connect 6 projectors using eyefinity as some promoters have asked me to do bigger shows. Portability is important, but since I drag around 3 + projectors, the extra 10kg`s is not so important.
So to all Windows VJ`s out there (or people with experience from both platforms) what kind of headaches can I expect if I make the switch? I`m a quite tech savvy guy (learn fast) even though I dont have much experience with the windows platform.
1. Do you experience driver issues and troubles related to that?
2. I`m not dependant of Syphon, but I would love to see a Windows version eventually. Do you think that is likely to happen during the next couple of years?
3. Blue Screen of death or other strange issues?
4. I have always wanted to get into Quartz Composer to create patches and effects for Resolume, but is there a equavilent Windows version?
5. I`ve always been drooling over this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxvQw0GVH2c, which is one reason I always wanted a PC.
6. Slower performance over time using Windows? Or is that a thing of the past?
7. Is the Os X video engine better than the one Windows is using?
8. Any video software for windows that currently doesnt work in os x?
9. Can you predict the future? is Apple leaving the pro market? Is Windows on a comeback?
Hope this post is clear enough. I`m asking what I`m likely to miss out on, what I can expect, what headaches and what new possibilities comes with changing from Mac Os X to Windows. As my computer broke, now is the time for change, if ever. Hope to get some constructive replies guys!
- Mads

Mads Meskalin wrote:
Hope to get some constructive replies guys!
- Mads
Good luck, but I doubt that you will. This is a Mac user forum; your questions are about Windows and would be better suited to a Windows forum.
As for Q9, the moderators have a habit of removing posts that speculate about Apple's future direction.

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