According to what I read the macbook pro can support an external monitor up to 6k.
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The M1 Macs are just fine for Lightroom. You will be pleased.I made a decision to try out an Apple computer.
because this is new to me I did not want to spend a lot of money on this attempt.
I found a reconditioned 16 inch Macbook Pro with a M1 pro chip and a 1tb hard drive. I got a really good price on it. It will be a keeper if I can work Lightroom with it and especially if it can handle a 5k external monitor.
There is a new MacBook Air with M3 chip. Would that change your view about preferring the MacBook Pro?Life is simple, Mac Book Pro or Air or desktop or phone for photography video editing.
My M1 Mac Pro is purely for travel, web site work on the fly,
and it does all i ask of it.
For myself i am leaning to the cost effective customization PC options over Apple Mac.
A high quality Eizo screen and quality graphics card for just graphics work etc, i can build and update what i have easily myself.
For myself 125 gms difference in weight to the Air is not an issue versus the benefits of the PRO.
For major editing and my taste i don't see the 13 inch or even the 15 inch series as really useful, its purely just to small a screen.
Lap tops i find are traditionally not as accurate compared to larger pro level desktop screen and system, and i don't know the exact techy's why.
Desk Top - A really good PC with good graphics card all on a high end Eizo is very competitive to the heavily priced Mac desktop system, in fact on the screens side by side its a challenge to see any real difference well from what i have seen.
A Classic, used every day now for 14 years.
I have one of the last series 17 inch i7 Mac Book Pro lap tops Circa 2010 ?, with upgraded graphics card, maxed out aftermarket ram at a 1/4 the cost, swapped out the Mac HD for a server grade 1 TB SSD, pulled out the DVD unit and in its place went another 1TB SSD. Slam dunk LOL, only turn it on when needed otherwise all my gear is turned of at the wall.
Its OS is currently unsupported by Mac, i use Fire Fox, hackers usually don't wright hacks that much if at all for really long out of date OS systems LOL.
Its not used for gaming, social media or porn, simply live clean stay healthier. I mean, you usually get dirty if you play in the mud.
This 3.5 kg 17 inch monster runs most large external modern screens via a small hub, it has CS6 and LR, ON One, NX, DXO, Capture one, plus some other programs i hardly use.
The 17 inch screen is a useful size for a laptop and just large enough to do some work editing if needed, i also have an Apple adapter that lets me run any external classic 30 inch Mac Cinema scope, or any other modern screen even Eizo via a small external port in a HUB.
I run the classic Herman Kardman Sticks with sub and its a lovely all up tool, simple elegant set up that just surprises everyone who uses it even 14 years later its still strong.
This system is used every day for anything and everything especially with a lot of Zoom for Yoga often from Costa Rica with Diva Primal. It does video, photography, movies, live stream Zoom, you name it........................
I do operate a modern high end i7 12th generation PC system on a 32 inch curve 4k Samsung, for admin web work, i also have a couple of Mac Desk top towers, but for internal operations only.
The future, for myself i am leaning to the cost effective customization PC options over Apple Mac, using a high quality Eizo screen for graphics work etc, i can build and update what i have easily myself, mind you my needs are different as i out source most editing and or printing.
As to employing staff by the hour that's a different matter that requires fitting them out with the right tools. Thats where the want versus the need decision differs.
Only an opinion
I made a decision to try out an Apple computer.
because this is new to me I did not want to spend a lot of money on this attempt.
I found a reconditioned 16 inch Macbook Pro with a M1 pro chip and a 1tb hard drive. I got a really good price on it. It will be a keeper if I can work Lightroom with it and especially if it can handle a 5k external monitor.
I have decided I like Mac and will stick with it.
I did, and cheerfully bought a Mac Studio to replace/upgrade the iMAC I had. To go along with my Mac laptop and various other hardware in the same ecosystem.Think long and hard before giving your money to that CCP made, anti right-to-repair, vanity brand.
For local backups, is Time Machine not sufficient? One big HDD might be good enough. Running RAID 5, you of course already have some protection against a single disk failure.I added a base level Mac Studio with m2 max with 1 tb drive to the mix.
I have two 4k monitors already and plan to move one of those 4k's to the Studio setup so I will have a 4k and 5k screen to work with for the mac studio for now. I am keeping my pc setup with one external 4k running at least until I am sure I can do everything I want with the mac.
The studio will be my desktop and I plan to bring the macbook pro on trips. The screen on that is more than adequate for processing images while on a trip.
I currently have an OWC four bay RAID 5 thunderbolt drive. I am planning on moving that to the MAC next week. That will house my photos and catalogs.
So far I have been able to do everything myself. I am going to meet with a consultant next week to review things and help with the OWC turnover.
QUESTION what do you recommend for a BACKUP?
Nice word salid.I did, and cheerfully bought a Mac Studio to replace/upgrade the iMAC I had. To go along with my Mac laptop and various other hardware in the same ecosystem.
Seriously, I did want to push back a bit on "vanity brand." A computer is a tool. Pick the tool that works for you.
I worked in the software industry and among technical people in my last company, many were quite happy with Windows as a primary desktop/laptop. A very substantial minority liked Apple, and a few diehards liked to use one of the various flavors of Linux as their desktop. None of the very technical people who used Macs did it to proudly flash the Apple logo. It was just ... the best solution for them.
There are certainly things I don't like about Macs. Or the Windows OS. And linux ... just too painful for me as an everyday tool (too many apps I like don't run on Linux).
But photographers seeking a good solution for their photo-processing (and other computing) needs should rest assured that technically sophisticated users will not look down upon their choice.
Okay, I'll simplify. There is no reason to avoid buying Apple hardware.Nice word salid.
I use to use time machine when it first was introduced. I reduced the backup increment times to once a day by utilizing a free utility software. It may be more forgiving now but whenever i had an issue with it you had to redo a complete backup. I switched to CarbonCopy Cloner. Much more flexible.For local backups, is Time Machine not sufficient? One big HDD might be good enough. Running RAID 5, you of course already have some protection against a single disk failure.
For cloud backups, there are several choices. You need a decent upload speed, and even if you have it, it takes a while to get TBs of data up.
The only issue I've had with Time Machine is when I moved a bunch of files from one external drive to another, I couldn't find a way to tell TM to forget about the files on the old external drive. And I had space issues on the backup drive, so had to restart the entire backup because it didn't have space for both the copies of the files on the old drive and the new drive.I use to use time machine when it first was introduced. I reduced the backup increment times to once a day by utilizing a free utility software. It may be more forgiving now but whenever i had an issue with it you had to redo a complete backup. I switched to CarbonCopy Cloner. Much more flexible.
You can set it up to keep the older versions or not as you prefer. Time Machine is pretty reliable for a locally attached destination…but Time Machine to a network destination is problematic, frequently fails for no apparent reason…and despite being a long long time Mac guy I was unable to get it to consistently work. My solution was to use CCC with the "remote Macintosh" destination and set up Time Machine like backups for our laptops that way and it's been bulletproof. I still have TM set up on the laptops but the destination is never actually connected…so it just backs up locally every hour…that allows easy recovery of the accidentally deleted file.Otherwise it's been okay. I haven't used CarbonCopy. Would it handle the case I had?
The problem I had was slightly different. I copied say 400 GB of photos from drive A to drive B. Okay, TM starts backing up the files from drive B. But the TM backup drive did not have space for 400 GBs of those files in two places; a backup of drive A and a backup of those same files from drive B. And I could not find a way to tell TM "forget about those files on drive A, so you can reuse the space." Possibly I missed it. So I had to wipe the TM drive and redo the backup. Which wasn't a tragedy; I had a cloud backup as a safety net while the TM backup was redone.You can set it up to keep the older versions or not as you prefer. Time Machine is pretty reliable for a locally attached destination…but Time Machine to a network destination is problematic, frequently fails for no apparent reason…and despite being a long long time Mac guy I was unable to get it to consistently work. My solution was to use CCC with the "remote Macintosh" destination and set up Time Machine like backups for our laptops that way and it's been bulletproof. I still have TM set up on the laptops but the destination is never actually connected…so it just backs up locally every hour…that allows easy recovery of the accidentally deleted file.
Ah…but then since you copied the files there are now 2 copies of them and TM is going to back up the copy on both drives unless you exclude the drive. But even if you set CCC not to keep versions there would still be 2 copies and TM will try and back both of them up. Personally…I only have TM backup the boot drive and ignore everything else because everything else is either original photos on the RAID o2r backup drives and I have a bunch of assorted CCC jobs to back up everything from the boot drive and RAID to various locations as well as BackBlaze to back them up to the cloud. I also have a 2TB DropBox account that gets backup copies of everything on the RAID except the original images (the RAID has both original images and a folder shared to the house network for consolidated data file location). I have TM run on the boot drive on my Mac Studio which is the main LR and fileserver machine…on the laptops I have TM running but to a never connected drive so that it will do hourly snapshots locally, these are useful only for the rare occasions when I accidentally delete something. And I'm running my own CCC TM like clone jobs on both laptops to a completely different folder on the RAID on the Studio which then gets backed up to a 20TB spinning external on the Studio.The problem I had was slightly different. I copied say 400 GB of photos from drive A to drive B. Okay, TM starts backing up the files from drive B. But the TM backup drive did not have space for 400 GBs of those files in two places; a backup of drive A and a backup of those same files from drive B. And I could not find a way to tell TM "forget about those files on drive A, so you can reuse the space." Possibly I missed it. So I had to wipe the TM drive and redo the backup. Which wasn't a tragedy; I had a cloud backup as a safety net while the TM backup was redone.
Ah…but then since you copied the files there are now 2 copies of them and TM is going to back up the copy on both drives unless you exclude the drive. But even if you set CCC not to keep versions there would still be 2 copies and TM will try and back both of them up. Personally…I only have TM backup the boot drive and ignore everything else because everything else is either original photos on the RAID o2r backup drives and I have a bunch of assorted CCC jobs to back up everything from the boot drive and RAID to various locations as well as BackBlaze to back them up to the cloud. I also have a 2TB DropBox account that gets backup copies of everything on the RAID except the original images (the RAID has both original images and a folder shared to the house network for consolidated data file location). I have TM run on the boot drive on my Mac Studio which is the main LR and fileserver machine…on the laptops I have TM running but to a never connected drive so that it will do hourly snapshots locally, these are useful only for the rare occasions when I accidentally delete something. And I'm running my own CCC TM like clone jobs on both laptops to a completely different folder on the RAID on the Studio which then gets backed up to a 20TB spinning external on the Studio.
I'm really surprised you can't just throttle OneDrive (but I've never used it myself). You must have a very high speed internet connection. Something mundane, like the 20 Mbits I have up, is so little that the CPU is loafing along backing up to the cloud as fast as it can.I have a consultant coming tomorrow and we will figure out something that makes sense without ending up in the mess I got into with Onedrive.
Right now Onedrive refuses to let go of the Pictures folder on the main hard drive. It keeps backing things up all the time and ties my system into knots. I hate that system, it has driven me away from Windows.
Sounds line TM is working as designed…ypu moved the files so TM backed them up in the new location and stopped backing them up at the old…but since it keeps old versions of the drives the6 didn’t get deleted. CCC…assuming you were using the Safety Net Disabled option…would delete the old copies from the backup.My above description was incorrect, I moved via lightroom the 400 GB of photos from one drive to another (I said copied above but that was wrong, they were actually moved). TM thought there were two copies ... TM kept the 400 GB backups of the files on the old drive, and now needed to back up 400 GB on the drive they were moved to. The backup drive didn't have enough space for both. I couldn't exclude the old drive entirely, as it still had files on it that needed to be backed up.
And there appears to be no way to tell TM to throw away backups of specific files (you can find some suggestions on the web to delete this or that under the hood, but I think that corrupts the TM database). At least I couldn't find a way.
I prefer having a local backup of the non-boot drive data along with the cloud backup. I actually care less about the boot drive than the data. If the boot drive is trashed, I'll reinstall everything from scratch.