The two go together. Machines are not just dumb hardware - their designers give them very different characterists and part of the game is to find camera and software that were designed by folks with similar thought patterns to yourself. I thought I had done this pretty well with Canon 350D & Digital Photo Professional until I got Nikon D80 and Capture NX; now I know I have really arrived, tho no good pretending that NX interface has been translated well from its (assume) Japanese origin. Until recently mac computers have also made computer use painless, tho since OS 10.2 a policy of convergence with MS and/or catering for illiterate iPoders or something has steadily taken it downhill.