01-05-2012, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-05-2012, 02:29 PM by AceInfinity.)
(01-05-2012, 01:05 PM)Fragma Wrote: Even for a Graphic Designer it's not worth it.
The amount of money you pay for an Apple Mac, you could use to build a PC which is twice as good.
The only thing you're buying when it comes to Macs is the Apple logo.
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Lets put it this way... You can buy an iMac for £999 ($1550).
What you get for that is:
21.5" 1920x1080 monitor
2.5GHz quad-core Intel i5 CPU
2x2GB DDR3 RAM
500GB HDD
Radeon 6750M GDDR5 GPU
Webcam
Mouse
Keyboard
OS X Lion
Those specs are very average... The computer I'm currently building will cost about the same as that, but has the following:
23" 1920x1080 IPS monitor
3.4GHz quad-core Intel i7 2600k Sandy Bridge
4x4GB DDR3 RAM
500GB HDD
Radeon 6870 GDDR5 GPU
Mouse
Keyboard
Windows 7 Professional
+
Gigabyte Z68 mobo
Corsair H60 water cooler
Antec 650w PSU
Coolermaster case
Crucial M4 SSD
I'm positive that people more knowledgeable than me will be able to get even more for their money with a custom built PC. Even buying a pre-built PC you'd save so much money than buying an Apple.
The only Apple I would even consider looking at would be a 12 core Mac Pro, but they cost £4,000, and for that much money, I'd rather build 4 computers and have my own render farm!
I would agree with building a better computer, but Apple was designed for that type of thing, which is where the difference comes in. All Adobe's programs are surely to run a lot smoother on a Mac than a Windows computer because it's binary was first built to support it's architecture. I would still go with Windows, but that's because i'm used to it over a Mac. I don't have much knowledge about Mac really. So that's the other side of the story, you'd have to start early with them to get used to how they operate if you're not already familiar with them, but as a graphics designer Mac's are inevitably the better way to go.
Plus they seem to be more stable than Windows for graphic design software. Less freeze time, and if you go to any courses for graphics design, I could only assume that the majority of the professional courses will get you involved in using a Mac anyway.
If you're already used to Windows though like me, then that's the only reason I can't agree to using a Mac over Windows.