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Originally Posted by bloodhound31
I was thinking of upgrading to handle the TB of image data I now seem to be handling in my photography pursuits.
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So it was YOU who ordered all that Apple/Mac stuff on my credit card!!!!
YOU!!!!
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Originally Posted by bloodhound31
I hear Macs are just MADE for graphics in oh so many ways better than PC. Is this true, or a matter of opinion?
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I've heard that too. Now owning a Mac, I don't think they produce better images. There seems to be plenty of image and movie editing applications built in to the OS for it, and the computer does run a little faster, but think it's negligible.
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Originally Posted by bloodhound31
If I change to Mac from PC, will all of my Photoshop software and Canon software programs work with it?
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Adobe/PS - is available on the Mac, but your current licenses will be for the Windows version and I don't believe they're transferable. An option might be to install something like VMWare which allows you to run a Windows virtual machine on your Mac, and install your Win software on that. That's what I do for Windows only software. But there is PS that is Mac-native (I have that), but you can't use your current Win licence for it. I think I said the same things several times over here. Sorry for the redundancy.
Canon (free) - yes
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Originally Posted by bloodhound31
What about running my EQ6 pro mount, Autoguide camera, PHD and all the programs, ASCOM languages, MaxIM DL Essentials, etc, that I am currently running on PC.
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Don't know about Maxim, never used it. ASCOM and EQMOD is Windows only. So I have to run that in the above-mentioned virtual machine. Runs/performs fine.
But you can certainly do astro-imaging and guiding etc with Mac-only software. PHD and Nebulosity are available in Mac. As is Cartes du Ciel, Astroplanner...
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Originally Posted by bloodhound31
Is changing over to Mac going to make my life a misery sorting it out or is it all plug and play now?
Baz.
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It's pretty simple. I figured it out.
All that being said, if I were you, I'd stick with Windows notebooks or desktops. The driving reasons for me getting this Mac were that I'm a closet computer nerd, I regularly remotely log in to Linux machines and I like the Unix-based back-end of this OS, and I just gotta have da gadgets.