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| Thread ID: 123432 | 2012-02-24 04:05:00 | Minimum specs for 2nd-hand iMac? | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 1261114 | 2012-02-24 04:05:00 | Hello, looking into buying a 2nd-hand, possibly ex-lease, iMac for the purpose to improve my skills using Photoshop, Illustrator etc. What specs do you recommend as the absolute minimum, for a comfortable experience to run these programmes? I know they may not necessarily be as fast as the new ones, however I don't have the budget to buy a brand new iMac... It may be useful information that I'm a PC user, so some of the Apple terminology will be over my head ;) Thanks! caffy |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 1261115 | 2012-02-24 04:11:00 | Nothing pre core 2 duo as it is basically unsupported. 2gb RAM should be fine but aim for 4. Also try to get a mac with a nVidia (preferably) or ATi graphics card. However you may want to research into some of the ati cards as i can remember the x1400? was particularly crap. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1261116 | 2012-02-24 06:02:00 | Hello, looking into buying a 2nd-hand, possibly ex-lease, iMac for the purpose to improve my skills using Photoshop, Illustrator etc. It may be useful information that I'm a PC user So why not just get the PC (Windows) version of Photoshop? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1261117 | 2012-02-24 06:31:00 | Why not get the mac version? | icow (15313) | ||
| 1261118 | 2012-02-24 07:12:00 | The OP said they were a PC user, so I assume they already have a Windows-based machine. Thus getting the Windows version of Photoshop to use on the current machine seems to make more sense than getting the Mac version of Photoshop and then having to get a Mac also. Certainly it should cost less? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1261119 | 2012-02-24 07:44:00 | I agree with icow, dont get a G5 iMac, they had a few issues. The core 2 duos are very nice, remember some of the first core 2 duos were in the same shell as the G5 so were white. If you can get some serials of the ones you looking at and pm them to me I will be able to look them up and see which one they are for you. |
nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1261120 | 2012-02-24 07:47:00 | Well there obviously is a reason for asking about mac. If the OP had no problem with running photoshop on windows wouldnt they just buy photoshop for windows? Or if they were unsure as to what system photoshop would run better on wouldnt they then ask should i buy a X or a Y? I am going to do photoshop work. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1261121 | 2012-02-24 07:57:00 | Well there obviously is a reason for asking about mac. If the OP had no problem with running photoshop on windows wouldnt they just buy photoshop for windows? Or if they were unsure as to what system photoshop would run better on wouldnt they then ask should i buy a X or a Y? I am going to do photoshop work. Maybe they had no idea there was a Windows version? I certainly don't know the reason for asking about a Mac, but I'm just giving another option. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1261122 | 2012-02-24 07:59:00 | Fair enough. | icow (15313) | ||
| 1261123 | 2012-02-24 09:00:00 | I know a few graphic design companies that have switched over to PC, they found there are more features usable on the PC version. I also had a friend who did a graphic design course, at the course he had to use a Mac, when he got home he completed his projects on PC, found it was far better and easier to work with. He also said there were more options because of the right click with windows. Apparently while many of the options can be found/used using key combinations, there were some tools just not available using Mac. He was using Freehand, Photoshop and Illustrator mostly. Frankly, I don't know why some design houses still insist on using Macs, it seems to me there is nothing to gain by using them. Just my opinion. |
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