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Did you know that one of the biggest reasons to use a Mac is it's search ability? At any point you can do a search to help you find the file you are looking for. The search takes less than a second, to cover all your hard drives. This compares to up to several minutes on a PC - search on a Mac works, search on a PC is too slow to be useful.
So what?
Well, the ability to find things fast and painlessly at any point makes the Mac a lot more productive. Specific to photographers - the search ability across multiple hard drives almost instantly makes the mac your picture organizational tool - you can search for dates, ranges, names, part names - all instantly - want to do a backup of all your raw files, do a search on the raw suffix and every raw file can be backed up, likewise it's painless to search for every .psd image.
You remember the name of the image was 'rock something' - no sweat. I use search on a daily basis, for finding images, for finding text files that describe the images, whatever.
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That's about the first time anyone has said being organised is a reason for using a Mac. Usually it's a "It makes me more creative (ie and you less so)". All you're saying is a Mac allows people to leave files in a mess all over the place and rely on its search to find them. As it is, they still lose them. BTW "it's search ability" should read "its" - but I guess Mac folk are creative with their use of grammar too. :)
In fact, I don't leave my files all over the place, I have a fairly organized way of filing them, yet with over 10,000 images to organize, organizing is not enough.
You'd be amazed at the ways that clients ask for images - you know - the one with the red blob in the corner - even if you supply them with an index number, they can't remember it - left it on their desk but need the image now, etc.
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