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DeTrevni 
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 Topic: Holy iMacPosted: 04 September 2008 at 6:56pm |
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So, I was talking to my animation and multimedia teacher today in regards to Macs. He's an Apple fan, has a whole bunch of history with animation an multimedia and owns his own website developing company. I told him I wanted to be an animator when I get older, which involves a lot of applications, a lot of memory and a lot of hard drive space. He actually suggested I go out and buy a full-on maxed out iMac. - 1TB Serial ATA Drive More than $2500 plus tax and Adobe Creative Suite... That's a lot of money. I can afford the payment plan, but would it be worth it just because I can? I gotta say, that's some impressive stats. Edited by DeTrevni - 04 September 2008 at 6:56pm |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 6:58pm |
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$2500 computer
or $2500 in hookers and blow Choose wisely. |
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Shub
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 6:59pm |
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What programs do you want or need to run? If it is just the Adobe Creative Suite, you can get that for Windows, and build or buy a competitive computer for cheaper.
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:00pm |
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Why is it only 3.06 Ghz?
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:01pm |
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It'll be obsolete within a year.
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:14pm |
Actually, it was obselete at least a year ago. Sheish... you could buy a pc that is so much better for $2500. |
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DeTrevni
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:21pm |
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Very valid concern, of which I expressed. I'm still debating building a PC. But I don't have the money in hand for that. A big thing is the payment plan. And a free iPod. :) |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:23pm |
Yeah. You could build a rig better then mine for 2500 bucks. If you do want OSX, do a vanilla hackintosh build. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:43pm |
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i have
280gtx q6600 4gbram 2x250gb raid 0 p5e motherboard kick ass case misc accessories and i paid......1500.... |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 7:46pm |
Step one: Get a Credit Card Step Two: Build your computer using said Credit Card Step Three: Automatic payment plan, especially when you get a "Zero Interest" card that has a 1 year introductory rate. Step Four: Profit? |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:02pm |
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if you dont have previous credit, forget about getting a
2500 limit. also, since you arent going into the animating business for 4 years, wait until then to buy your work computer. for now you can just get by on whats cheap. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:05pm |
Hackintosh FTW. I could put something together using the same components you listed for about a grand. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:11pm |
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Wow
 $2,500 for that hardware? What a scam. You could build that yourself for somewhere between half and 2/3 of that price. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:37pm |
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If your going the Mac route don't skimp out on an iMac, get a Mac pro, particularly because that system is crap for what your paying.
I would recommend at minimum 8 GBs of RAM with a decent Intel Quad Core. The fact of the matter is multithreading is becoming popular finally, and these processors can be had for relatively cheap. I'm not sure how well Mac pros allow upgrading but this route also offers some future-proofing. Putting a full terabyte on one hard drive without a decent back-up solution strikes me as unwise. Whats more, you'll want good hard drive read/write speeds given that it will likely be your scratch disk as well. If your serious about building a good computer, go the RAID route. I personally prefer RAID 5 or RAID 6, although RAID 0+1 is very nice as well, not mention this will provide redundency. Finally, you wnt to go into graphic design which means most likely you want a powerful rendering gpu, such as something from the Nvidia quadro line. The 8800GS is not a good pick. Good luck! |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 8:41pm |
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Or you build buy a brand name PC, who will still offer financing and the such, and will sale you a PC for cheaper than the Mac.
People often rip on Dells, usually because they have experience with their $400 Inspiron or whatever, but their XPS, which is a "premium home" and office machine is a decent computer. Even if you bought the top of the line XPS, you'd have a comparable computer for about $1600. Then you'd have the factory support and the big company financing, and you could buy an ipod and save over buying a Mac. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 10:25pm |
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You can get a 1Tb for around 150 i think. would that be an option for you just to get a smaller hard drive and a 1TB extra? |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 10:58pm |
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- 24" display $2,059 or as low as $49 a month and a free iPod Touch or Nano. This is their basic top-o'-the-line iMac. $500 cheaper and still nice. I have to say, I really like Macs. The problem with the MacPro, is I'd still have to purchase a monitor, and a good one isn't cheap. That's the thing with iMacs, their monitor is built in. I'm seriously about to do it...
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 11:13pm |
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I still say hackintosh.
You could do a vanilla OSx86 build with specs alot better than those for under a grand. I would do the following: Motherboard: DFI Lanparty= $150 Processor: Core 2 Quad q6600= $180 Ram: Anything GeIL G.Skill, or Mushkin 4gb of DDR2 800 will run you about $80 Video Card: Personally I would go with an ATI HD48** series card, but I don't know if you can run OSx86 on those yet. So to play it safe, go with the 8800GT.= $110 DVD Drive: about $40 500 Gb HDD: $100 Case+PSU: about $100 Total cost: $760 bucks A 24" monitor will run you about $350. So, even with a 24" monitor you are still looking at only $1100 for a good system if you do it yourself, and it should run OSX fine. Talk to Rfuilrez, he is the hackintosh king. |
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 11:16pm |
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ehhhh.... I steer clear of macs due to high hardware and repair costs. Getting a new MoBo and upgrading your processor down the line is much easier and cheaper when you've got a PC. With a Mac, you usually just wind up buying a whole new computer at premium prices all over again. Also, Mac's OS variants cost a lot to upgrade, what they do between their OS versions are basically like what MS does for free with their service packs.
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Posted: 04 September 2008 at 11:29pm |
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Well, another huge factor right now is this: I've got $300 to my name. I can wait for weeks to have a decent PC, at about enough money each week to purchase a decent part, or I can finance a Mac to have and use now. |
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