Sorrel
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If I had your "dilemma", I'd get a Mac. But of course, it depends what you want to do with it.
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£2000 on a pc or a mac
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London Calling
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As it happens I have a G4 Powerbook, but last night whilst I was working in mac typing a letter could I find out how to insert a new page.
And this to me has always been a problem, what I am learning at work which is always using a PC , is not transferred to the home environment!!!!
Therefore my desire to move to a PC!
Time for me is also an issue and fear of being ripped off. Which is why I may now use Dell.
I now see the advantages of a low price PC, plus:
media card,
optical key board (ergonomic) and mouse
19 ultra sharp monitor (are the Dell's any good?)
Whack up the RAM to 2056
and a good colored printer for photo quality pics (HP/ Epson/ Canon)
I will be out on site over the next sixth months working in the Olympics area, interviewing dischanted businesses being relocated..... so a palm or something better to take notes, update my diary etc is what I need
As it happens I have a G4 Powerbook, but last night whilst I was working in mac typing a letter could I find out how to insert a new page.
And this to me has always been a problem, what I am learning at work which is always using a PC , is not transferred to the home environment!!!!
Therefore my desire to move to a PC!
Time for me is also an issue and fear of being ripped off. Which is why I may now use Dell.
I now see the advantages of a low price PC, plus:
media card,
optical key board (ergonomic) and mouse
19 ultra sharp monitor (are the Dell's any good?)
Whack up the RAM to 2056
and a good colored printer for photo quality pics (HP/ Epson/ Canon)
I will be out on site over the next sixth months working in the Olympics area, interviewing dischanted businesses being relocated..... so a palm or something better to take notes, update my diary etc is what I need
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adrian29uk
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Do not get a G4 I repeat do not get a G4. Even with a processor running at 500mhz and 640mb of ram you will struggle having more than 2 applications running at once in OSX.
Take it from me I owned a Mac for three weeks and then sold it and went back to dual boot machine with linux and windows.
What are you getting with a mac that you dont get with Windows?
Ok it might be virus free and the case and desktop may look nice but thats about it. Forget about upgarding anything on a Mac it costs three times as much.
There is absolutely no difference between Windows & Mac for design purposes, all thats different is the mac is a little bit sharper and remember if its web work everyone will be viewing it on a windows machine.
Secondly if your taking your artwork to the printers, its the printing machine that makes the difference and not the Mac.
Take it from me I owned a Mac for three weeks and then sold it and went back to dual boot machine with linux and windows.
What are you getting with a mac that you dont get with Windows?
Ok it might be virus free and the case and desktop may look nice but thats about it. Forget about upgarding anything on a Mac it costs three times as much.
There is absolutely no difference between Windows & Mac for design purposes, all thats different is the mac is a little bit sharper and remember if its web work everyone will be viewing it on a windows machine.
Secondly if your taking your artwork to the printers, its the printing machine that makes the difference and not the Mac.
Cian
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Also, every printer under the sun can take Windows formatted disks and Windows application produced files these days
Adrian - even with a 1.67Ghz G4 you'll still be crawling. Because the CPU still has a 167Mhz system bus - something Intel's outsped in 1999.
Adrian - even with a 1.67Ghz G4 you'll still be crawling. Because the CPU still has a 167Mhz system bus - something Intel's outsped in 1999.
adrian29uk
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Yeah Macs are bullshit. People just get fazed by the case and the preety desktop thats all.
I got 1gb of ram in this pc and 64mb graphics card, even with this I can apply a filter in photoshop quite fast using 1600x1200 res @300dpi imagine trying to do this in OSX, the machine would just spit it out.
I got 1gb of ram in this pc and 64mb graphics card, even with this I can apply a filter in photoshop quite fast using 1600x1200 res @300dpi imagine trying to do this in OSX, the machine would just spit it out.
Cian
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If you want power out of a Mac, you need one with an IBM in it, the Freescale chips are just jokes. Especially the 7447a/b that the current machines have - Apple won't move to the 7448 in case the 1MB cache puts people off buying a G5.
And a G5, whilst powerful, is bankbreaking.
And a G5, whilst powerful, is bankbreaking.
maffew
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yeah
not to mention IPODs
not to mention IPODs