New to mac, apple logos and advice

[harryiphone14]

Hello there,
I am 15 years old, and I have ALWAYS wanted a macbook. My time has come - and I will be making a purchase within the next month. please tell me:
do i need one?
i use my sony vaio for
photoshop
video editing
surfing
documents
itunes

also, the latest macbook which is white, -- does the apple sign light up ?

thanks

 

[spinnerlys]

Hello there,
I am 15 years old, and I have ALWAYS wanted a macbook. My time has come - and I will be making a purchase within the next month. please tell me:
do i need one?
i use my sony vaio for
photoshop
video editing
surfing
documents
itunes

also, the latest macbook which is white, -- does the apple sign light up ?

thanks

Yes, the logo does light up.

Your PC is quite fine for what you do, a MacBook will be able to do the same.

You have to find out, if you want a change of Operating Systems (OS), as that is what it comes down to.

Have a look at the following links to get some kind of clue what Mac OS X is all about.

http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ - text

http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/ - videos

http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ - text

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343-keyboard - shortcuts


http://www.xvsxp.com/
http://www.macvswindows.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

[James_C]

also, the latest macbook which is white, -- does the apple sign light up ?

Yes the Apple sign lights up on all the Apple notebooks

All present Notebooks should be able to do all the things that you want, video will push the hardware more than the other Apps. Photoshop really needs a bigger screen than the 13" screen on the smaller notebooks, if you can connect to an external screen then this is not really an issue. Depending on how much time you will be editing photo's and video's you will need to add more RAM and video takes a lot of hard disk space, so you may need to add an external firewire drive. At the end of day it will be largely based on what you can afford. If you are just doing the occasional bit of photoshop or video editing then the white macbook may well be ok, but if you are expecting to be doing a lot of work in these Apps then you should be considering a Mac Book Pro.

 

[Dan73]

Hello there,
I am 15 years old, and I have ALWAYS wanted a macbook. My time has come - and I will be making a purchase within the next month. please tell me:
do i need one?
i use my sony vaio for
photoshop
video editing
surfing
documents
itunes

also, the latest macbook which is white, -- does the apple sign light up ?

thanks

I hope you have OS X versions of all the programs you use.

 

[MythicFrost]

If you're getting a MacBook go for it, if you decide for a MBP make sure you wait. There are new ones coming soon.

 

[eawmp1]

Admit it...at 15 you ONLY care if the Apple logo lights up.

As much as I would love to have another Mac user, if your computer does what you need it to do, why change? If your current computer no longer is able to keep up with your workload, you have time to learn the new OS (not hard at all - see links above), and you have $ to replace your software with Mac OS versions, come over from the dark side.

 

[bjb.butler]

Admit it...at 15 you ONLY care if the Apple logo lights up.

As much as I would love to have another Mac user, if your computer does what you need it to do, why change? If your current computer no longer is able to keep up with your workload, you have time to learn the new OS (not hard at all - see links above), and you have $ to replace your software with Mac OS versions, come over from the dark side.

I think it's very condescending of you assume that because he is 15 years old, he is only concerned about superficial details of getting a mac.

Maybe he just wants a better user experience? I had a Nokia E71. And while it was able to accomplish everything I threw at it, I still wanted to get an iPhone. Not because my current phone wasn't performing well enough, but because I wanted to use something that I would be more productive on / have more fun using.

 

[James_C]

It appears if you contact Adobe they will let you transfer your Windows Licence to Mac for around $25.

Link : http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/886741