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Kronie

Kronie

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So in a few months (possibly sooner) I will be a proud owner of a 17" Macbook Pro. The only real "pro" work will be photography. The rest for personal use.

These are the main apps I will have:

CS3 Master Collection
Office 8
Lightroom
Final Cut 4.0
Parallels
Photomatix
Toast 10

Is there anything I'm missing?
 
Kronie said:
So in a few months (possibly sooner) I will be a proud owner of a 17" Macbook Pro. The only real "pro" work will be photography. The rest for personal use.

These are the main apps I will have:

CS3 Master Collection
Office 8
Lightroom
Final Cut 4.0
Parallels
Photomatix
Toast 10

Is there anything I'm missing?
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Ditch Parallels, and install Fusion instead. Fusion is much faster in y experience and hasn't failed to date.
 
Why dont you use Bootcamp instead of Parralles or Fusion?

CS4 Master Collection is the newest, CS3 is old.

And make sure your using Final Cut Pro unless your using it for amateur stuff then Final Cut Express will do.
 
Don't be any hurry to install MS Office for the Mac, give iWork a try, it will come pre-installed in a trial mode and can read/write MS Office documents.

Also give Aperture 2 a try also, you may find it suits your workflow better than Lightroom.

Loads more software to check out at www.pure-mac.com
 
kastenbrust said:
Why dont you use Bootcamp instead of Parralles or Fusion?
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It's a pain to install comparatively and offers no benefit to most users unless they are running the latest games. Plus you need to partition your drive to use it, which is not necessary for virtual machine software of the other two. Oh and there is a well documented issue for Windows and Bootcamp users whereby the latest Macbooks run excessively hot due to current Bootcamp drivers.
 
RemarkabLee said:
Don't be any hurry to install MS Office for the Mac, give iWork a try, it will come pre-installed in a trial mode and can read/write MS Office documents.

Also give Aperture 2 a try also, you may find it suits your workflow better than Lightroom.

Loads more software to check out at www.pure-mac.com
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Really, iwork is only a trial not the full version? what a Jip!

EDIT: oh wait maybe I'm thinking of iLife. doesn't MBP's come with iLife?
 
All Macs come with iLife free.
iWork you get preinstalled as a trial. However once you've used it you wont want to use Office again.
 
Bootcamp is the best way (not the most convenient) way to run Windows on your Mac. It's very easy to install and Apple supports the drivers very well. You don't have to be a gamer to take advantage of what Bootcamp can do rather than virtualization. Bootcamp runs Windows as a full native Windows PC on your Mac. You will suffer some reduction in power using virtualization, however if you must, I would also recommend VMware Fusion.
 
kastenbrust said:
All Macs come with iLife free.
iWork you get preinstalled as a trial. However once you've used it you wont want to use Office again.
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I doubt it, i still dont favor it over office. But dont buy office 08, no vba=sucks
And parallels works fine, and if there is problems they get right with you to fix it
 
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