Posted by James Tanner on April 17, 2010 at 5:35pm
t is about time to explain why I use Apple computers for genealogy andall the rest of my computing. The obvious first question is why wastetime/money/frustration with using a computer to do Windows 7 inemulation when I can be a "just as fast" PC for less money? Thebeginning response is that the Quad Core i5 iMac is a lotfaster than even I need for my thousands of graphic files, videos, audiofiles and etc. But the real answer is that our family does graphics. Mywife runs a graphic design company, I do huge composite 360 degreephotographs and we are in the processing of digitizing literally tens ofthousands of family history documents. If you add up all the optionsyou need to do that level of graphics easily on a PC you can spend 50%or more than an Apple iMac. So granted, I am not your usualcomputer user and besides I really like Apple's OS X series of operatingsystems for the same reason I use FireFox instead of Microsoft Explorerand the same reason I like Google and not Bing. Read more...
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