What type of Apple Mac?

[Jamie Wood]

We’ve got a top of the range iMac, and it’s very fast. It can handle anything
I throw at it. However, it can only take a maximum of 4gb RAM. I reckon
I would go for the Mac Pro & put as much RAM as you can afford in it,
especially as you have a large screen you can use. Plenty of bays for
extra hard dives too.

[John Wilson]

quote Jamie Wood:

We’ve got a top of the range iMac, and it’s very fast. It can handle anything
I throw at it. However, it can only take a maximum of 4gb RAM. I reckon
I would go for the Mac Pro & put as much RAM as you can afford in it,
especially as you have a large screen you can use. Plenty of bays for
extra hard dives too.

Yeah well I was thinking that a bottom of the range Mac Pro will set me back around £1600 and I can just upgrade the ram from time to time as it takes a full 16GB i think

I’ve got a 1Tb network drive so I’m not bothered about extra hard drives at the moment

[Tomas Vidziunas]

quote John Wilson:

Just not sure which to go for…… was thinking the Mac Pro so that I can run VMWare Fusion and run windows so I’ve still got Corel X4 without the lag

After Apple started using Intel processors you can install Windows as a separate OS

[David Rowland]

🙄 i would be asking you for advise john

[Jason Davies]

It’s got to be a Mac Pro or have you thought about a powerbook (top of the range). Depends how you work, we use purely laptops now for most of our work for flexibility, we have a few desktops and still use an old 9500 and a few G3’s with upgraded processors, they all cope with the work.
I avoided buying the ‘cheaper’ macs and macbooks or a while but we succumbed and bought a few macbooks, absolutely outstanding, quick and above all robust (although not keen on the keyboard) you can throw these about and they still work first time.

Nice problem to have.

Jason

[Robert Lambie]

I have a very good mac pro with 24" monitor and various add ons. great machines but weigh a ton. not that that is actually relevant. 😕 :lol1:
that said. i stick to my pc for general work and keep the mac only for video editing and the like.

[Simon Strom]

We’ve all been switching to the 20" iMacs as each Mac user is upgraded. Like others have said though, the towers will much more upgradeable in the future. Other than RAM and hard drive, you won’t have much choice for updating on the iMac.

[Warren Beard]

I’ve got the 24" imac and it is great, true about upgrade and also be aware that if you buy one with 2megs of Ram it will come with 2 x 1 meg cards so one will be useless if you wanted to upgrade again so will be forced to get at least a 2meg card to have 3 megs total (or 2x 2 meg cards if you wanted 4 megs and then both cards are useless)

24" screen is great for viewing, I also have a PC with 19" monitor next to it and it looks tiny 🙄

If you have the dosh then go for the pro as it will last much longer due to upgrades etc but if not then an imac will do very well for many years.

cheers

Warren

[Ian Hatfield]

Ive got a G5 3.2 quad core xeon mac with 10 gigs of ram and 30" cinema display. It is a lovely bit of kit but, had the new 24" Imac 3.06 been out at the time I would have had one instead and saved 2 grand, as it is a very capable. Photohop only uses a max of 4 gig of ram so they are fine for large photo editing. The 30" display is great for editing photos but it give me a sore neck as you cant look at the whole screen, so the 24 inch would be just right. I am just about to upgrade an old G5 and it will be replaced with the 3.06 Imac. Hope this helps