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Ultimate Photoshop/Illustrator platform

  • 30-04-2004 5:28pm
    #1
    zenith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 785 ✭✭✭


    Okay, I'd really like to know:

    I've got a budget to blow on a platform for Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Quark.

    Currently moving from 0S9: have the choice of moving to Mac or PC. Don't care which, just want unadulterated productivity. A couple of quid either way won't make a difference either. My job is to produce graphics under time pressure for print. I like both OSX and XP.

    (a) Mac or PC?
    (b) Dual G5 or Dual Xeon: Hyperthreading, or not. Or maybe Opteron?
    (c) Dual at all? Are those applications dual-processor aware, and does it make a difference?
    (d) What's the weak point of each platform? Is the fine-grained mouse control of a Mac available in Windows? Are the colour correction thingys the same or better?

    Basically, with a chance to start afresh, is there any convincing reason to choose one platform over another on tech specs: raw numbers don't impress me: I want productivity and reliability, not troubles. Do my job fast, go home. I know that platform Z is super, but _I_don't_care: I just want to finish early.

    Which one to choose? Maybe the question's more about job design than platform, but given two almost-equal machine specs, how do you make a decision?

    (Google's full of Apple advocates, but I can't find anything comparing productivity on one platform to another ... and it's certainly possible to build a faster PC, but no-one seems to be saying that you _need_ a faster PC - I'm not doing any rendering)

    thanks!


    (Didn't put this in Mac or Windows because I didn't want to show a bias: maybe Devore should put this into the debating chamber ...)


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