Whenever I get email with pictures from my friend who uses a MAC...they never come out. That’s the only reason I hesisate to get one....most people can’t see the stuff you send them...and alot of programs don’t work on them.
That’s mostly because Apple has always used it’s own graphics format for it’s internal apps, I believe it’s a *.pic format.
Windows uses *.bmp or *.jpg as it’s default witch are universal file types that any graphics app or web browser can open.
Linux uses *.png since it’s an open source format, and most browsers or apps can also use this extension since it’s free to use.
Never had a problem with pictures, and I send a ton of them; it’s a standard format. Are they using jpegs? If it’s tifs, she can set her default to Windows and it will work on both platforms. Or perhaps it’s her camera format.
If she is sending a screenshot that’s a png file unless converted, dunno if that’s the problem.
Office works fine on Mac, so does the full range of Adobe apps. Of course email, browsers..
Obviously if you have an app you must run and it only runs on Windows, you have to have a Windows box - or you can buy a Mac and run both Windows and MacOS.
There are some apps that require Windows, but outside of specialized business apps and small highly specialized apps, these are pretty rare.
If you’re a heavy duty computer gamer, you should be in a PC.
I just did a test. If I click on a picture in iPhoto and select ‘email’ it creates a standard jpeg in one of three sizes of my choice.
This is the usual and easy way to email photos. If she is attaching a picture from another source or another format that could be it.
In general, Macs read almost all formats, including Window specific ones like bmp. And they can write and save pretty much every format. I’d check to make sure she’s sending jpgs to you, and again the easiest way is to select them in iPhoto and click Email. It will create the jpgs and attach them to an email.