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Console Modding------ ( Here you can talk about your favorite Consoles ) => PC => Topic started by: loganbyers07 on January 30, 2009, 08:01:58 AM
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Okay well my school is probably about to shut down the aerospace program which is how I was going to make a living. So I think I want to go to my next tallent which is web design. I think that if I got a 24" iMac, which in the proccess I would sell my pc, I would be much more suited to webdesign and photo editing. And also I would have dual 24" monitors then! I am looking at putting a little more time into my computer and getting everything up to speed and then buying an iMac off of ebay for about $1200. So my question is should I keep my pc, get an iMac or save up and get an Mac Pro. I want something that I can do A little gaming on but it is no longer a priority because I have a xbox 360 now. Thanks guys!
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dude you should def get mac pro.. my school has one and its :censored: lush!!
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well i have a 24" imac fully loaded conected up to my 21" hdtv and i use it for my course in web development and i really like it i tripple boot vist, xp and mac os x 10.5 with osx 10.6 beta on an external drive and windows 7 in a VM and i love it. i use it to play some games on windows xp like UT CS Comand and counquer PINBALL. and on my mac i use adobe cs4 master collection which runs great and really quickly on it. i also have visual studios 2008 installed on every windows version. and i quite often will have firfox open with a few tabs, safari open with a few tabs, itunes open (15000 song library), photoshop cs4 using a wacom intuos 3 a4 tablet, twitterific, msn, and a ftp program plus a few other aps sometimes and i barely notice a slowdown and my mac (touch wood) has never crashed on me the only app that ever failed for me once was MSN but thats made by MS so i let it slip lol.
but yeh a imac would be perfect for web design i think. you would only need a mac pro if you were going to be doing all sorts of big render jobs at once and wanted more than what i described above or if you wanted more than just two monitors as depending on your mac pro configuration you can get up to 8 displays connected to the same mac. but that would cost a beasty amount
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well i have a 24" imac fully loaded conected up to my 21" hdtv and i use it for my course in web development and i really like it i tripple boot vist, xp and mac os x 10.5 with osx 10.6 beta on an external drive and windows 7 in a VM and i love it. i use it to play some games on windows xp like UT CS Comand and counquer PINBALL. and on my mac i use adobe cs4 master collection which runs great and really quickly on it. i also have visual studios 2008 installed on every windows version. and i quite often will have firfox open with a few tabs, safari open with a few tabs, itunes open (15000 song library), photoshop cs4 using a wacom intuos 3 a4 tablet, twitterific, msn, and a ftp program plus a few other aps sometimes and i barely notice a slowdown and my mac (touch wood) has never crashed on me the only app that ever failed for me once was MSN but thats made by MS so i let it slip lol.
but yeh a imac would be perfect for web design i think. you would only need a mac pro if you were going to be doing all sorts of big render jobs at once and wanted more than what i described above or if you wanted more than just two monitors as depending on your mac pro configuration you can get up to 8 displays connected to the same mac. but that would cost a beasty amount
well that sounds like what I am looking for. So I could get the 24" and have a external 24" hooked up to the monitor so i would have dual 24 inch monitors? Also what are the specs on your specific imac. I really want to dual boot vista osx and possibly windows 7. I am not to much into the whole linux scene.
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24" imac
3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS w/512MB GDDR3
Apple wireless Mighty Mouse
Wireless keyboard (British) & User’s Guide (English)
AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
8x double-layer SuperDrive
second 21" monitor/HDTV
elgato turbo.264 connected to it to help when proccessing .h264 file formats.
silver JBL Creature II 2.1 speakers
apple 500gb time capsule for backups
and it all sits on a slim key V2 stand
my hard drive is split as follows
mac 450gb
pics n docs 50gb
music n movies 270gb
xp 80gb
vista 80gb
i then have 1 external 120gb drive for snow leopard and a 250gb drive for video files plus a few other drives for general stuff
and my windows 7 virtual machine is 25gb
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24" imac
3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS w/512MB GDDR3
Apple wireless Mighty Mouse
Wireless keyboard (British) & User’s Guide (English)
AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
8x double-layer SuperDrive
second 21" monitor/HDTV
elgato turbo.264 connected to it to help when proccessing .h264 file formats.
silver JBL Creature II 2.1 speakers
apple 500gb time capsule for backups
and it all sits on a slim key V2 stand
my hard drive is split as follows
mac 450gb
pics n docs 50gb
music n movies 270gb
xp 80gb
vista 80gb
i then have 1 external 120gb drive for snow leopard and a 250gb drive for video files plus a few other drives for general stuff
and my windows 7 virtual machine is 25gb
wow man That is one awesome setup! So if you dont mind me asking how much was the imac? without the keyboard, mouse and other aceesories.
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about £1500 just under
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about £1500 just under
Oh okay. Well do you think that there will be a graphics card update coming in the near future (next 2-3 months)?
I would like to wait until right after the next update so I will have a good machine for a while and apple does not lower there prices very often so it should hold its value well.
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about £1500 just under
daaamn £1500 just under how long did it take to get that mush cash???
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i used some cash i got from wining a suit when i was younger as it was kept in trust till i was 18 so i then bought lots of stuff and generally had a fun year and when threw it in like 2 years
and they might release new hardware in the next 3 months - you never know with apple
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okay. Well i saw a page that said they are past there average model revamp cycle so I will probably wait for the revamp. And also I will probably be keeping the PC as well.