Re: FN-FORUM: New imacs - anyone got one

date posted 21st October 2007 08:33


On 21 Oct 2007, at 08:58, John Deaville wrote:

>
> Hi there
>
> I am a mac user - and I have not upgraded my equipment for a long
> time, I
> primarily work using photoshop and I like the way my mac is set up,
> but I
> would like to invest in either one of the new flatscreen imacs ( I
> cant
> afford the g5 plus screen) or a dell pc
>
> I need something pretty powerful, and the advantages of the pc are
> that I
> get more bang for my buck as the mac equivalent would be a lot more
> expensive - and I also need to use some software that is only
> available on
> the pc - I have found some great plugins for vectorising images in
> illustrator which is pretty handy but only available on the pc
>
> But the imac is intel, and is capable of running windows - but my
> experience
> of running virtual pc on my mac was that it was really slow - so
> does anyone
> have experience of windows performance on the imac (or intel
> powerbooks etc
> ...)
>
> The imac looks good ...
>
> But this:
>
> http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?
> ~ck=expbuy3&b&c=uk&cs=u
> kdhs1&kc=d4xess04&l=en&oc=d10516b&rbc=d10516b&s=dhs&fb=1&vw=classic
>
> If I customise to give maximum memory etc ... Weighs in at about
> 900-1000.00
> If it is more powerful - then this is perhaps the better choice
>
> Any advice ?
>

Are you seriously planning to switch back to Vista, from OS X?

windows XP performance on my Mac pro through parallels is as fast as
it ever was.

Leopard (which will come with new macs after October 26th) runs
windows via boot camp or virtualisation apparently faster and better
than Tiger.

compare the two sets of hardware properly (look at third part memory
on the mac, start with a base model and spec the dell to match (intel
not AMD etc) and you'll see the difference isn't that far off.)

I think you'll have a world of pain if you switch back to Vista, but
that's just my opinion.

how many days work would you have to lose in "faffing with windows"
time before the price difference made the switch uneconomic?

just my opinion.

tools for the job - which do you choose, tools that need constant
repairs and maintenance and still snap in the middle of the job, or
tools that are more expensive, but more reliable.

(IMHO)

;o)