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I have recently decided that i should aquire a mac, i know a few designers who keep going on about how much better work has become since they switched to mac. problem is, they have no real idea about the technical side.

I work in IT, so am pretty good with PC's, however, my Mac knowledge is zero! well, maybe a little above zero.

iMac and MacPro's etc doesnt mean a lot to me. i know that a Mac Book is a laptop one :D

I want a Mac with a tower, not an all in one, mainly because i want to choose my monitor seperately and not be restricted by the components inside it.

Am looking to spend around £400 - which also seems to be an issue - wow they are expensive.

Any Mac genius' out there that can explain the world of Mac would be much appreciated.

It seems knowing lots about PC's makes buying a mac 100 times more difficult

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how much better work became? they became magically more inspired? :lol:

seriously though if you know computers you should know about macs, after all the newer ones are all intel based computers with most of the same hardware. you should also know that macs dont magically enhance world peace ;) other than a different layout to the OS thats about the only difference.

£400 wont get you much worth writing home about, maybe an old 2nd hand powerpc based tower but you wont be able to run any newer software.

what do you want to use it for? is there a particular reason for the switch?
 
I wouldn't bother if you are limited to £400. it'll get you a G4 Powermac with limited disc space and memory, you'll also be stuck with OS 10.4.9 which won't be updated again, this will cause software problems in terms of what you can and can't use in the future.

I'm an Apple guy (iMac, iPad, MacBook and iPhone) but with £400 to spend would buy a PC....
 
I do see where you are coming from but there is a definite gap in the market, there has been alot of talk about a Mac Pro Mini, but it just isn't going to happen. The iMac is too popular for Apple to risk going down the hardware enthusiast route. It is the opposite of the PC Market where I think there is still a big gap in the all in one market. Apple have it nailed.
 
The only thing your going to get for £400 thats any good will either be an older core 2 duo macbook or a Mac Mini.
 
neil_g said:
£400 wont get you much worth writing home about, maybe an old 2nd hand powerpc based tower but you wont be able to run any newer software.

what do you want to use it for? is there a particular reason for the switch?
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It will be used solely for photoshop and other image editing programs.
Thanks for all your responses, seems like i may be upgrading my PC instead, there was no real reason to switch, it just seems that Macs are designed more specifically for media stuffs.

maybe i'll put up with microsoft for a few more years :)

thanks again all
 
Rowee said:
it just seems that Macs are designed more specifically for media stuffs.
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maybe in the past but not these days.

i could go up to our design dept tomorrow and rip out all of the mac pros and replace them with i7 boxes with a decent amount of memory and theyd not notice the difference (in fact it'd be a million times better with integration into other parts of the network..). it'd save the company a small fortune too.

however theyd throw their toys because it wasnt "cool". in fact the 15 macbooks we replaced recently with dell latitudes, most of them are still using mac keyboards and mice.. :cuckoo:
 
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You might possibly pick up a G5 for that amount, it will run Photoshop OK if you pop a few sticks of memory inside. I sold mine over a year ago and replaced it with a Macbook for the portability.

neil_g said:
maybe in the past but not these days.

i could go up to our design dept tomorrow and rip out all of the mac pros and replace them with i7 boxes with a decent amount of memory and theyd not notice the difference (in fact it'd be a million times better with integration into other parts of the network..). it'd save the company a small fortune too.

however theyd throw their toys because it wasnt "cool". in fact the 15 macbooks we replaced recently with dell latitudes, most of them are still using mac keyboards and mice.. :cuckoo:
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Think they would Neil, there's a big difference in the OS :thumbs:
 
Scotty Pro said:
Think they would Neil, there's a big difference in the OS :thumbs:
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I think you mean the UI, not the OS... People who buy Macs tend to buy them specifically because you don't need to learn anything about the underlying Unix based OS. It's all clicky clicky and sexy so must be better (even although the hardware is the same as a PC)....

I mean, how many Mac users understand what this would do or why you would even think of typing it in ;):

find . -regex ".*\.[cChH]\(pp\)?" -print | etags -

:D
 
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