PC workstation question
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- drbyers
This is for the PC users. I'm a mac user at home but my company doesn't think the way I do, so it's their way or the highway.
(And I don't plan on going anywhere soon with this tight economy.)
My question is what kind of workstation our department should order? Quad processor Pentiums with boatloads of ram? or Dual Xeons with decent ram?
We do a lot of photoshop and inDesign work. Our current workstations are using dual xeons, but they're not as fast as I thought they would be. They're about 5 years old, though.
I'd recommend mac minis but they're just not upgradeable enough for our needs. and management won't go for the iMac (built in monitor) nor the eight core Mac Pros (cost).
Can anyone help a brotha out?
- Drno0
dual xeon
2 gb of ram (4 doesn't change nothing)
at least a 512mb of Vid card (nvidia does a nice job)
hard drive 1tb 7200rpm or 300gb raptor at 10000rpm (depending of the use)
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screen 24" dell (28" is nice too)
mouse + keyboard
you're set
- drbyers0
Thanks guys.
I just talked with our IT ordering department and they spec'd out a quad-core xeon HP workstation with 2G of ram, an nvidia graphics card and 160 gig hd for $1,450 each through a discount program we have.
I'm still holding out hope for iMacs though... lol.
- zarkonite0
uh, just look at the mac pro specs, get a better video card and voila. apart from the OS aint nohtin' special in there...
- jaylarson0
To utilize 4gb of RAM+, you need Windows 64-bit editions. Then you can have upwards of 128gb of ram.
- yaphi0
I've got the Mac Pro with dual 2.6 GHz Xeons...it's Teh Snappy™
Go for that with your PC with a boat load of RAM and an nVidia card.