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The issue on the PC side is ensuring all the components and drivers are good which is hard as you wont know until you put it together. If its casual its less important, but having a good experience is still really important or you wont want to use it. The speed is more important if your using it all day everyday and needing to get images out to clients. If you are a casual shooter the difference between the two will be minimal. It also depends on your workflow, I run 500-3k images at a time from events and weddings the machines do slow and tbh I want to get through them as fast as possible to get back out shooting again. The latest version of lightroom is a big speed improvement but its still not what I would call instant. Unfortunately the whole CC suite just works faster on windows not to say the performance is bad on a mac at all but for the time being thats the case its just not that well optimized, Adobe is working on it tho and actively making speed improvements. One issue with the iMac is that 5k dsiplay, its beautiful but the pixel density means the graphics card and CPU work harder which means slow downs. For example my Mac pro if I use the 27" ACD it slows down even with the RX580 but if i put the lower resolution 23" ACD its like lightning. Nvidia graphics cards are better than ATI as cuda is better than open CL and cuda is only supported well in windows.īare in mind with lightroom it is constantly building and rebuilding images as it works non destructively the more pixels you push to the display the slower it is. The difference between editing a 22mp 5DMKIII and a 5DMKIV is literally night and day although its only 8mp it seems to slow systems down a lot quicker. Lightroom is a hog and even with the most recent updates it still doesn't run smooth even with the highest end systems, especially so if your running the new crop of DSLRs like 30mp + 5DMKIV D850 A7RIII etc Windows 10 is far far more buggy depending on your hardware. Mac HS was buggy to start with but pretty much all has been ironed out, that wouldnt be a stopping point for me. The i7 is about twice as fast in rendering in Lightroom. On the Macbook's we use for travel and client visits we have an i7 and i5 (almost a year newer than the i7). The i7 especially during rendering of 1:1 views in Lightroom will really help. I my opinion if the OP can afford the i7 with 512 SSD, add RAM later you will be quite happy. GPU shouldn't be a concern for Lightroom/Photoshop. Actually Photoshop and Illustrator frequently crashed on PC. Lightroom and Photoshop as example have been running solid. We basically have no problems with Sierra or High Sierra. Example: MS Office 365 - PC: Can only install all programs (Outlook, Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint OneNote, Publisher). While the MacOS has some restrictions, some of them are good. After 3 years still very fast, while PC slows down and sloooows down. Updates/Upgrades on the Mac don't seem to slow down the system as much as on Windows. We decided to switch from PC after we changed a few years back our Laptops to Macbook Pro's. Twice in 10 years I had to exchange an iPhone which didn't create a problem. For 3 years one Manufacturer to deal with and should be worry free. Manufacturers/Sellers fight to honor their warranty and do the blame game (it's the board, or the GPU or. In the past I did the above for the two PC machines we had and over the last years I spent countless hours. If the OP has a technician or IT department that might not matter. You probably loose warranty in any case you have to deal with each individual manufacturer The speed benefit is mainly coming from overclocking with an increased risk of premature component failure My assumption the person who put it together spent days of doing so You will deal with setup issues until the system is running smooth You need to spent time for research, order and building the machine You buy the components individually from different manufacturers
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