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Old 22-09-15, 02:52 PM   #1
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Thinking about getting an iMac, any users on here convince me to make the change from Windows to mac

I'm all ears.
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Old 22-09-15, 02:57 PM   #2
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Not a user myself, my wife is a graphic designer and has had a Mac since just after I met her - 1998.
She would never use a PC, for her work.


You might get better replies from others if you state your intended use. I'd take a punt and say something to do with photography.
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Old 22-09-15, 02:59 PM   #3
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I asked a similar question...

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.p...ac#post3003448

Bought a PC.

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Old 22-09-15, 03:08 PM   #4
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Yes, the main reason will be for post processing photographs...
and not for playing games...... well the odd one or two and for watching films on.

Cheers Pete for the link, interesting read
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Old 22-09-15, 03:37 PM   #5
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apple mackintosh were king of the hill a long long time ago for graphics design for the simple reason adobe only wrote software for the mac and they were single task machines. graphics designers to a certain extent know pretty much burger all about hardware so graphics designers stuck to what they knew. in these modern times there is nothing between them so for the extortionate price of a mac you can have an all bells and whistles windows/linux machine. if its the mac OS you are interested in then i'm pretty sure you can run it on a pc as a mac is no longer fixed to hardware/processors as of old.

the worst machines for crashing and messing things up when i was at uni were the macs.
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Old 22-09-15, 05:14 PM   #6
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have a look at http://www.hackintosh.com/
Transformed my i7 pc in to a mac pro . You have to be a bit choosey on hardware but it went on my home built win 7 pc easily and been running for 2years +
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Old 22-09-15, 05:14 PM   #7
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Wife has an iMac and Apple now class it as vintage and wouldn't repair it once the graphics card packed up. Got it fixed but I had to take it apart myself and send the card off. PCs are better for upgrading individual components as and when you feel you need more power/ram/storage.
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Old 22-09-15, 06:15 PM   #8
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I have the latest version of full Photoshop on my PC at work. I also run it on an 8 year old laptop and ancient PC (still with Windows XP.) I have no problems with any of them running Photoshop on Windows.
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Old 22-09-15, 06:58 PM   #9
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I wasn't saying macs were better, personally I think apple are a rip off. As soon as you have bought it it's out of date. Her last mac could no longer be updated, so nothing would run properly. Nothing wrong with the machine. It's now decomposing in it's box. Nearly 3 grand later she had a new one. Will be out of date again shortly. And yes Lance, like me she knows **** all about the techie stuff.
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I would consider MacOS a much better architecture and much more stable than Windows.
If you have the right applications available, I would recommend a Mac.
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