MAC or AMD

[eric zed]

You ask this in the Mac Forum section, what answer do you think your gonna get? :whistle: Anywhoo...

I ran Photoshop on a Power Mac G5 at school for one class day thing, and it ran like a farking dream. (It only had 1GB of RAM, too.) And I think this may help you decide...

[tapo]

Mac.

Any Mac user can tell you that Expose is a GODSEND. Especially when you have a lot of windows open doing assorted tasks.

Besides, the interface is hardware accelerated on the Mac, and seems so much snappier and responsive then Windows.

[macssuck]

Besides, the interface is hardware accelerated on the Mac, and seems so much snappier and responsive then Windows.

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As specially when you resize a Window...Oh wait, never-mind.

[Senseotech]

As specially when you resize a Window...Oh wait, never-mind.

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Sitting with a 1.2 ghz G4 iBook w/ 512 megs of RAM, I can resize windows fine, no lag of any sort, and can even resize Quicktime Windows while a file is playing and have no studdering, unless its one of the HD trailers, or some other obnoxiously large file.

[Shadrack]

4g3nt_Smith: what video card does the iBook come with?

My Mac Mini with the same specs stutters when I resize a Safari window, and really stutters when I resize video windows. It has a 32MB ATI Radeon 9200. Tiger improved this a little... but it is still noticeable and my P3 900 w/ 8M video card performs better with Windows XP in this regard. I think mac still has problems with their resize algorithms because everything else is really snappy (Expos?, the dock, moving windows around).

hobier: you came to a Mac forum, hmm...i wonder what people are going to suggest and prefer? To answer your question out right: I think with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator work you are going to get about equal performance on the latest and greatest Mac vs. latest and greatest x86. I think your real decision should be based on the interface of the operating system and kindness to the user. In this case I would choose a Mac because it has the simplest interface that lets you get right to work.

But performance wise I think the two are equal.

[spartan232323]

You ask this in the Mac Forum section, what answer do you think your gonna get? :whistle: Anywhoo...

I ran Photoshop on a Power Mac G5 at school for one class day thing, and it ran like a farking dream. (It only had 1GB of RAM, too.) And I think this may help you decide...

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Where was that picture from?

[Novastorm]

Where was that picture from?

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Looks like it came from here...

http://www.apple.com.au/powermac/performance/

Reality is that either solution, PowerPC or x86 based they are both going to be FAST, especially since money isn't an issue here. So it really comes down to which GUI, Windows or Mac OS X do you like better?