Imac 20" or PC?! [sorry]
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Yeah, Atkinson, buy whatever you're used to and have the software for.
I started out a PC guy 10 years ago, switched to a Mac, never looked back and then, over the last 2 years, have had to design on PC's at work but still design exclusively on my Mac at home.
I run both systems really clean...meaning, I don't install b.s. freeware or crap shareware on either machine....I run the programs I need for work and that's about it.
My opinion is this...
I've worked on 2 different PC's over the last 2 years at 2 different jobs....one was an older, kind of crappier machine and my current work PC is really solid bought brand spankin' new a few months ago. My Mac at home is a brand new 24" iMac that I got back in September pretty much right after they announced them.
Running the same applications on both machines (essentially just adobe stuff...including the last batch of macromedia) my PC has crashed about twice as much as my Mac. My Mac has frozen up and I've had to force quit shit every now and again....so it ain't all roses on the Mac side....but, honestly, I had a crash on my new PC here at work 2 weeks after I started and it's now a once a week thing.
But, in the end, it's kind of the same shit....they both have their problems and they both crash but, in my personal experience, my Mac has crashed about half as much as my PC running the same exact programs.
The other thing is that shit always just seems to work on my Mac. Plug it in and it works, turn it on and it works, install it and it works. I almost always have to do some "jump through hoops" bullshit at some point in the process to get stuff to work on my PC.
Just my 2 cents. Go with what you can afford and since you already have every bit of software for the PC then I would say stick with that.
How's that for a fair and balanced review from a self-admitted Mac guy.
P.S. - This isn't really related, but sort of....I think the iPhone is a piece of shit and I'm pissed that Mac seems to be forgetting what they're built on. Pfhew...just had to get that out of my system.