The best desktop for Graphic Work
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The biggest thing about macs preventing me from picking them as a studio platform is there's no middle of the road offering. It's iMac, or MacPro.
iMacs are glorified laptops, no room for an extra hard-drive (for mirroring, so you're computer doesn't blink out of existence and leave you stranded), heat problems in some, non-replaceable components, and kind of expensive for their performance level.
MacPros are too much computer, made for AFX/Maya and other heavy tasks, and because of that, they cost a lot.
If Mac had a tower available with consumer-grade chips and the ability to switch out a bad PSU or video card, they would be a contender. But alas, they only care about ipads now.
as for PC desktops, my preference is a mid-range processor, 6-8gb ram, mid-range GFX card, 2mirrored ssd drives for OS/Programmes, and 2 mirrored platter HDs for file storage. This is plenty fast enough for photoshop work, and has a lot of redundancy in the file storage and OS environment to keep downtime and lost data to a minimum.