From OS X to Windows 10

[Rubenis]

Well here is my story.

 

I am entusist grade photographer and videographer. I have benn constantly upgrading my gear, including PC.

 

So a about one and a half year ago I had a good system - i7 2600, Z77 MB, 16GB RAM, SSD and HDDs and GTX 650 Ti for GPU acceleration (works on both Windows and Mac)

 

About that time in my country the cryptovirus striked quite hard.

Since I did not want to loose all my work I did switch from Windows 8 to OS X - my PC allmost OBB working with everything. OS X I did purchase legally, so please - I know it is against EULA of Apple, but at least I have legal copy of Mavericks.

 

But few days ago I started to think about moving back to Windiows, this time 10th.

So I did fairy easy test for my needs - took one spare SSD, that was the same model as boot drive of OS X and put Windows 10 on my machine.

 

I did two tests - exporting RAW to JPG photos and simple 4K video footage export to Full HD in Premiere Pro, to see was OS X faster than Windows or not.

 

Well in Lightroom 6 PC was faster by abouy 15%, but in Premiere pro difference in export times was allmost 20% in favour of Windows.

 

Now I tempted to switch back to Windows, since it gives me better performance in the same woarkloads and specs.

 

What do you think? Should I switch back or still keep working on a PC-Mac??

[AlTech]

PC but in an ideal world (IDK about you but) I would have a PC and a Mac. Both are good at different things.

[Rubenis]

PC but in an ideal world (IDK about you but) I would have a PC and a Mac. Both are good at different things.

Well I can not buy Mac, because they are terribly expensive in here. And since this PC is just pure workstation, and all my other needs are covered by tablet, phone and SmartTv, so this WS is my only concern right now.

[AlTech]

Well I can not buy Mac, because they are terribly expensive in here. And since this PC is just pure workstation, and all my other needs are covered by tablet, phone and SmartTv, so this WS is my only concern right now.

 

That's why I said...... "in an ideal world". This ideal world I speak of is where money is no object. So for  now just stick with PCs.

[ALwin]

What do you think? Should I switch back or still keep working on a PC-Mac??

 

There is only ONE good answer for this question: Do whatever you want.

 

If you think the time invested (perhaps a day or two) in migrating your OS, applications, software, files, etc. from a hackintosh OSX back to Windows is worth it, then do it.  Otherwise if that interferes with your schedule or other daily activities like school or work or anything else... well.

 

I'm also a photographer and videographer, and I have a MacBook Pro (OSX) as my portable workstation and a Windows 10 desktop (ok, floortop as I am using a Cosmos II case) at home.  The MacBook and the Windows workstation are both great for editing photos, but for video the MacBook serves as my in-the-field/away-from-home/quick-and-dirty video editing machine, but for the serious edits I wait till I get back home to my workstation.

[Rubenis]

If you think the time invested (perhaps a day or two) in migrating your OS, applications, software, files, etc. from a hackintosh OSX back to Windows is worth it, then do it.  

Well since a lot of files are in NAS, then it would take much less time - basically it is Windows install + drivers and then programs.

 

Performance gains is the tempting part of this step. Windows would save me time and the time is money.