riclan Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>I'm thinking of joining the dark side by buying a MacBook. I wonder if I will be able to transfer my catalog from PC to Mac without losing anything.<br> Thanks</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark_sirota1 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>When you say "Catalog", are you talking Lightroom? If so, then answer is yes -- they're completely platform-independent. So is the Lightroom license.</p> <p>The only thing you might need to do is to tell Lightroom where the photos live, because the path to the top-level folder will probably be different on your new machine. This is trivial to do.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclan Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Thanks Mark. Sorry no being precise enough. Yes, I was referring to LR. Actually, I'm so frustrated with my Dell laptop (studio XPS) freezing once in a while, the fan is making so much noise and few other things.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsimmons Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>A can of air can fix the fan noise most of the time. Usually it's dust buildup. As far as freezing, have you done a defrag? Checked for bugs running in the background or programs that suck up your memory?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_m Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Sshhhhh, we've almost got him over to the 'dark side'. Stop telling him how to fix his PC :) :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_rochkind Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Macs freeze too.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 >>> Macs freeze too. Yes. Mine did around the year 2000... www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclan Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Rich : I regularly clean the intake area because my machine runs really hot when I'm doing video or editing photo.<br /> Howard : My wife is pushing me over the cliff... I will join the dark side ;)<br> I'm looking at a MacBook Pro with retina as a first "hands on".</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelChang Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>The Dell Studio XPS is apparently known to have overheating issues caused by the screen mesh over the vent holes at the bottom as it gets progressively saturated with dust. </p> <p>The problem is compounding - dust restricts airflow causing heat, the fan works harder to draw in more air which in turn collects more dust. The CPU begins to behave erratically as it overheats from inadequate airflow resulting in bazaar behavior including freezing for no apparent reason. </p> <p>It's worth perform an internal cleaning of the laptop by removing a few screws. There are many YouTube videos on How-To:<br> [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dell+studio+xps+16+disassembly&oq=Dell+Studio+XPS+16+&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.1.0l2.17355.17355.0.19815.1.1.0.0.0.0.82.82.1.1.0...0.0...1ac.2.knTUbgbnNjY">Link</a>]</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkins Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>My Mac has never frozen.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclan Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Micheal : Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p>Just a point of order.</p> <p>It's <em>Windows</em> that is the 'Dark Side'. Darth Vader version 1.0 before the release of, what do they call those "packs" or something? It's been so long and so happily put out of mind..</p> <p>:)</p> <p>In OS X, I've had some Adobe programs stop on me, but nothing that has brought down the whole system in at least 7 or 8 years.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_wood Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 <p><em>"My Mac has never frozen."</em><br> <em> </em><br> You're not driving hard enough. :-) Seriously, I've had both of my Mac Pros freeze a number of times, requiring hard reboots. It happens and in my case the biggest offender was a slide show software program called Fotomagico. The newer versions seem to have cured the bug that took down my Macs.<em><br /></em></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 <p>For what its worth the only time any of my macs froze was when my iMac HD failed (last weekend) repaired under warranty and the first time in about 6 years of using them.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenkins Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 <p>16gb of memory helps :)<strong><br /></strong></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_wood Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 <p><em>16gb of memory helps :)<strong><br /></strong></em><br> <em> </em><br> Both have 16 gb and SSD boot/scratch drives. :)<em><br /></em></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howard_m Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 <p>they <strong>ALL</strong> freeze or crash at some point. The OS's are big, complicated and buggy and that is the way it is. It boils down to which you enjoy using to get your work or play done and which supports your usage style and applications best (to your satisfaction) w/ minimal hair-pulling.</p> <p>For me, thats OS X.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven_clark Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 <p>In terms of migration issues: last I tried if you drag and drop files from a windows disk to MacOS finder will choke if two files have the same name in different directories, because the finder programmers are utter idiots I guess.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riclan Posted March 31, 2013 Author Share Posted March 31, 2013 <p>Thanks Steven for that tip. I do have files with the same name in different directories. Better start changing them now...<br> Micheal : I watched the video. From there I removed the back panel and did some cleaning. Not much dust but it seem to have helped a bit. I'm still planning to go forward with a Macbook.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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