The best desktop for Graphic Work
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- monolith0
macs were fantastic before.. but since Apple started going consumer and becoming like iPhone, iPad, iMac company their machines are far from great for creative work.
I use a Mac, and I use a Windows PC. I have found that a ton of utilities and productivity apps are great on a Mac and make my life so much easier, but on the other hand professional apps and graphics apps and 3D apps are all running (or simply don't run) on OSX much worse.
So if you want to just work, PC is definitely the way to go. I know a lot of people who were exclusively using Macs, switching to PCs now because Apple is really kind of taking a dump on professional market.
Not to mention that you can build an insane machine on a PC that will be a 1/3rd of a cost of a Mac, upgradable and have your apps work lightning fast.
I don't know, I like OSX but Apple is really becoming a mainstream consumer company. The whole post-PC thing is really a testament to that but most of all that they haven't updated their professional machines like Mac Pro in ages. They just don't care.
- Apple updates their Pro line of machines regularly, they just don't make a big hype about it.monospaced
- Yes, that's why their top of the line graphics card in a Mac Pro is ATI 5770monolith
- 5870, but you have to remember, they will never put a "gaming" video card in. They're focused on creatives.monospaced
- so you don't like apple because it's too mainstream? ok, ariel.doesnotexist
- it's not a "gaming" card. New ATI cards are now 7xxx series.. GeForce cards 5xx series. They have benefits and speed up work in many cases such as Nvidia Cuda and OpenGL performance in Photoshop/AE for example. Has nothing to do with "gaming"monolith
- work in many cases such as Nvidia Cuda and OpenGL performance in Photoshop/AE for example. Has nothing to do with "gaming"monolith
- with "gaming"monolith