Something to help you out, if you are thinking about buying a Mac. I really wish I would have found something like this when I bought mine. Might have saved me some headache. Here we go!
As I mentioned before, if your primary use for the Mac will be anything except a lot of image editing, any video editing of movies longer than 5 minutes or playing video games, get any Mac. You’ll have plenty of power, even for audio editing. Just make sure you get at least 2gb of RAM.
If you are a photoshop wizard, spend your time resizing and cropping very large pictures, have to edit any video or want to play video games, do not get the MacBook, MacBook Air or the Mac MINI. They do not have the horsepower to complete these tasks and they will bring your computer screeching to a smoking halt, crash and repeat until your frustration grows to an uncontrollable level and you start with the throwing of things or kicking of things or the blowing up of shit with the rocket launcher because you were too lazy to find the plasma cannon. Yes, that bad.
If I had the budget, I’d build out a nice Mac Pro with dual quad core processors and 4GB or RAM. But, since that costs well over US$4K, I’ll stick with the high end 20″ iMac and boost the RAM to 4GB. Since pricing on that machine is very much on par with a similiarly equiped Dell, I think, for now, I’ll stick with the Mac. There is enough other cool stuff here that I would hate to be without.
At least, until I get famous. Then I’ll build me up something that would fit in just fine in the Pixar rendering farm.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
If you want to use Aperture go for 4mb RAM. I had 2mb on my MacBook Pro and it could not cope until I doubled it.