Assuming you had money, which scenario would you do?

Deja Q

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Fri Apr-17-09 08:54 PM
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Poll question: Assuming you had money, which scenario would you do?

Keep in mind you already own a top of the line Windows PC...

You're in the graphic design field...

A))
Purchase a high end dual quad core Mac Pro and ditch the PC; put Windows on it for boot camp or virtualbox

B))
Buy a Mac Mini, keep the high end PC for development, use the Mac for testing web pages/et al only.

C))
¿Other?

Thx!

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struggle4progress

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Fri Apr-17-09 11:45 PM
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1. Dunno. Depends on what you plan to do with a new machine. The quad-core chips

have a slower bus than the dual-cores, last I looked, so for some purposes a dual-core may run faster than a quad- or dual-quad-core

The current Mini doesn't look like a bad machine itself: you can now get a Mini with 4 GB of RAM, so the Mini might be better than the old G5s

You can easily add a lot of RAM to the Pro: it'll take something like 32GB, and a lot of apps seem to confine themselves to one core, so if you're a multi-tasker the Pro is a nice machine. It's easy to add memory or drives to it, though if you jam it full of memory and drives, it may run a bit hot

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Deja Q

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Sat Apr-18-09 09:46 PM
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4. Mine (Q9650) has a native bus of 333MHz; o/c'ed it to 400MHz without overvolting...

To do 450MHz, I'd have to overvolt to 1.355v and coming close to the 1.36v maximum. Since that's a net yield of 400MHz, that's not worth frying the chip over. 3.6GHz is fine and dandy for me... :D

I'll likely go for a Mini and swap out as many components as I can... or just leave it as it is and be happy; test from there. :D

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struggle4progress

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Sun Apr-19-09 11:53 AM
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5. I hope you'll post your experiences if you decide to replace Mini components: my searches

suggest the box can be a bit tricky to open and that certain screws may not be trivial to remove/replace -- so some of us will appreciate knowing what luck others have with it

:toast:

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Deja Q

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Sun Apr-19-09 03:18 PM
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6. It figures...

:evilgrin:

I need to finish up on a couple purchases first; by July or August I'll probably be buying... (I know what I said in that lounge argument; life is about business... still debating on getting the higher end Pro or the lower end Mini... by summer's end, new models might come out anyway...)

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struggle4progress

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Sun Apr-19-09 05:28 PM
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8. I'd be surprised if they released new models this summer: I think they remodelled the MacPro

within the last six months and the Mini within the last month or so

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canetoad

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Sat Apr-18-09 02:03 AM
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2. Other

I need the home machine to be practically a clone of the office machine which is a PC, although we have talked about going Mac. Makes not much difference to me which machine I use P'shop, Illustrator or InDesign on.

Now, if money was no object, this is what I'd be getting.... http://www.wacom-asia.com/cintiq/

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hobbit709

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Sat Apr-18-09 04:37 AM
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3. OOH! Want one

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progressoid

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Sun Apr-19-09 03:31 PM
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7. Damn, I want one of those too!

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Deja Q

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Sun Apr-19-09 06:05 PM
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9. I recently bought a Wacom tablet -- clearance @ Best Buy... 6x11"

$220. Retail (even on Wacom's site) is $369. :woohoo:

Aye, the Adobe apps work just fine on both platforms and speedy too. I'll probably still get a Mini, but either way it's months down the road... :D

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canetoad

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Sun Apr-19-09 11:13 PM
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10. I've had a Graphire tablet for years

but never really got used to using it as a first choice. Too much of a disconnect between using your pen on the tablet and the screen results. Didn't like the position of the button for clicking either. Those Cintiqs start at a couple of thousand dollars and I drool every time I see them.

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