Photoshop on Windows or Mac? What system is better?

Question

Hi I'm thinking on buying new laptop mostly to create stuff in Photoshop, sometimes After Effects videos and to update my community blog [link removed by moderator]
My friend is saying that I should buy Mac Book because it will work better and faster etc. even with 8GB of RAM. Is it true? Windows Laptops with 16GB of RAM are much more cheaper than Apple... What will be better for me? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Which Platform is better may change over time.  When Photoshop first started you did not have a choice.  Thomas developed Display for the Mac and demonstrated it to Adobe and Photoshop history began.   That was back around 1990 it was Mac Only I think Adobe began to market a Windows version in 1992.  At the time both platforms were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Mac OS 7 and 9 where  poor and buggy and windows was full of bugs.   Mac were using the Power PC processor and PC lintel 8088 family.   Intel the came out with 386 that gave PC mainframe features and Windoes NT and Windows 2000 were developed  PC were becoming of age.  Steve Jobs returned to Apple and IBM would not produce a power efficient PowerPC for Steve's desired laptop  had also use Unix for his Nextstep adventure and knew its virtues. So in a single step he abandoned Apples's OS and the PowerPC. processor.  So now Apple Mac and IBM compatible PC are using the same hardware Processors.  Both platforms have a robust OS these days both are  preemptive multitasking systems.  Mac OS base design is Unix like.  Unix was developed by AT&T Lucent lab in the 1960 time-frame for the PDP 11. Design to be modular and portable where code would be easy to developed using  simple module using pipe-ing data just flows input to output.  Apple is more controlling then Microsoft IMO neither are open system but Apple seems more closed then Microsoft to me.   This has advantages and disadvantages.  Application operation constrain to work the way Apple dictates users get a more consistent environment but less software and Hardware less upgradable.  Photoshop on both platform run into problem easily seen just read through this forum.  I use windows for I had to at work and a gained a lot of knowledge about windows over the years. I'm not about to change.  I also had to use Apple OS 7 and 9 for a little while.  If you going to use computers you will have to learn quite a bit about the OS installed on it.  All computers need to be maintained and backed up.  If you only going to use one application you may be able to get a turn key system.    Find the best products for the jobs you need to do.   You may find you need more then one machine and OS.