For the next part of me leaving Adobe behind, let me introduce you to the replacements. First up is the new hardware that is paramount to the switch. I’m typing this up on a Galago Pro laptop from System76. The specs on it are as follows: Intel Core i7 8565U cpu, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 250GB NVMe SSD, 2TB M.2 SSD (in a 2.5″ 7mm SATA adapter) and a 14″ 1080p matte screen.
Discrete branding
Look at those ports!
Keyboard and trackball
The guts
The casing is aluminum, but it is not a unibody enclosure like a MacBook. The laptop is very light for its size, however it feels well built and solid. Overall, it’s a very nice looking and feeling machine.
Ever since Adobe announced that Lightroom was moving to a subscription only model, I have read countless people online talk of moving on and leaving the Adobe ecosystem. The general consensus was that Adobe was just trying to wring every penny they could out of their user base and that since they were Adobe and had Photoshop and Lightroom, no one would walk away. For the most part, Adobe was right. The company made huge profits off of their subscription model and to be honest, the $10 a month they charged for both Lightroom and Photoshop wasn’t all that bad for amateur users and for professionals, it was a great deal. I however, was one of those who didn’t like being charged monthly, especially for a product that at the time was slower than the competition, more crash prone and had issues with the FujiFilm X-Trans raw files that I primarily shot.
