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- Moo
I've been asked to put together equipment spec (hardware, software and internet connection) for the digital team in order to create and manage rich media content/site. Can anyone recommend anything??
cheers m00
- Fariska0
most tired question: mac or pc?
- Moo0
I would like a mac but i know that IT wont consider it or support them so i guess it will have to be pc
- Fariska0
If a pc: would be a good option to consider a dual processor (xeon) with 4 gigs of ram, 1 tb of HD (better having 2 separate drives). And a good to good nVidia/ati graphic card, and a 64 bit OS (windows xp 64bit)
If by richmedia you mean flash+video it would be ok and will be a good machine for 3 years, and you can scale down t 3 gigs of ram and a 32 bit OS (normal XP/vista)If you mean heavy video production, you can consider windows 64, which holds more ram and now all the major software are supporting 64 bit capabilites.
Otherwise get a MacPro and boost it in terms of ram and CPU speed.
- BuddhaHat0
Budget?
So you're looking at:
DSL/SHDSL feed (cable if it's in your area)
Cisco router capable of QoS (if your team needs to prioritise packet transmission for streaming purposes)
Workstation or notebook with external LCD?
External Storage/scratch disks/Backup
Software (what do you need? adobe full suite? what else?)
Other hardware - Tablets? Wacom Cintiqs? eSATA HDD or fibre channel cards?
Anti-Virus (cos you're using a PC :)
Anti-Spam (unless it's already running on your mail server)
UPS batteries (if you really want to protect your investment)I can keep going all day, but it honestly depends on your budget...
- Tark0
http://www.qbn.com/topics/569421…
Cray desktop super computer (with optional skypoo kegarator)
- uan0
besides the superspecsmegafast-workstations... for production consider some out of the box not to fast computers to check your productions on a client-level machine.
- BuddhaHat0
If you don't have a real budget as such Moo, present a budget solution, a mid-range solution, and the rolls royce solution... see how lucky you get...
It can also help because if management asks you in a year why they purchased such cheap crappy equipment that doesn't do the job, you can always show them the options and say 'well Mr Tightass, you chose the cheap stuff, it's not my fault' :)
- Moo0
Just spoken to the IT department and they told me that another department doing 3d modelling got a 3k pc each
- Moo0
£££££
- 23kon0
even laptops you can get for a few hundred pounds from pc world will run photoshop and illustrator fine.
unless you need a beast of a machine/video card for doing video or 3d render work then any new pc/laptop would probably do.
- 23kon0
if you wanted a reccomendation ....
Acer laptops - you get a lot of bang for the buck and really good build quality and lifetimes. Theyve been around for years n years and theres never been any bad press about them. (other than them releasing the Ferrari range lol)
- where's the fun in that though.
"oh yeah work asked me what I wanted to compute on so I got the cheapest piece of shit available"max_prophet - the cheapest shit I could get my hands on"max_prophet
- Mine stopped working after 1 year. Haven't used their stuff since.Jaline
- where's the fun in that though.