Re: [artshow_photo] New Mac Computer

Jerry,
I gave up on off the shelf boxes years ago. You can get a $200. box that's
useless but to really get a workable tool for high end work the you will
have to pay a premium. My solution is to build your own. Either do it
yourself or find someone locally that will do it for you. The task is
fairly easy even for a non tech. The computer I am using now was put
together in early 2008, however I've done several upgrades since. The goal
was to have a silent fast cool computer. I used an Antec box that has
sound insulating material inside, an Abit IP35 Pro Motherboard and a cooling
tower without fan on the CPU. The graphics card is a EVGA 8600GTS and is a
little slow but was reasonably priced. When I upgraded to Win 7 I replaced
the C drive with a 128gm SSD from Kingston.
The initial investment was about $1500. but upgrades are simple changout.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jerrygol <jerrygol@aol.com> wrote:

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>
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> If I wanted to upgrade my desktop PC what suggestions as to a Brand and
> processor
> are there? Also what is the best graphic card and speed. I would think as
> much RAM
> as possible would be best as well.
> Jerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Pearlman <mike.pearlman@gmail.com<mike.pearlman%40gmail.com>
> >
> To: artshow_photo <artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com<artshow_photo%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 10:08 am
> Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] New Mac Computer
>
> Bad idea in my humble opinion. You can get a lot more bang for your buck
> ith a good PC and you already have the software.
> have both platforms and use the PC 90% of the time. I am able to pull,
> eplace and repair and easily update on the PC as needed.
> o far as speed there is very little difference except you have to replace
> he Apple entirely for an upgrade. My high end HP monitor is far better
> he the Mac Monitor.
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:10 AM, mercurius_1 <mercurius_1@yahoo.com<mercurius_1%40yahoo.com>>
> wrote:
> >
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> I think I'm finally going to jettison my PC and move over to a Mac. But I'm
> clueless about the best configuration and need your advice.
>
> I will need to run Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, as well as monitor
> calibration software (recommendations on this are welcome as well because
> I'm currently using an outdated product that only works on my PC). Also MS
> Office suite and maybe a video editing software. What do you recommend? I
> don't want to spend this much money and then discover that I didn't get
> enough horsepower, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
> www.sarahpollock.com
>
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