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If you where looking to get a computer just for photo work what would you get? What do people have that they are happy with?

Henry
 
G5 dual processor liquid cooled, 2 G4 titanium Powerbooks, mini mac and a windoze thing that I cannot allow to connect to the internet.

G5 is superb but takes quite a bit of lugging around, this is where the books come in.

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It's only a f8king camera
 
ASUS SLI motherboard

AMD ATHLON 64 3200+

2GB DDR333MHZ RAM

256 MB PCI e nVIDIA Graphics card

DVD Burner 8x Double layer

(2) 250 GB each Western Digital SAT hard drives

17" Samsung LCD monitor

HP Photosmart 7760 printer
 
Don't waste your hard earned money on a Mac. If you can build a machine, look at AMD's dual-core offering. With the money saved, you can invest in nice glass instead.
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P4 HT 3.2 Ghz HP business desktop
80 & 200Gb SATA HDD
1.5GB RAM

simple on-board Intel video 64Mb. No 3D gaming on this machine - but it is absolutely OK for image editing.
Dual DVD-RW drives.

Samsung SyncMaster 173P 17' LCD monitor

Gábor
 
i have a computer business, both pc and mac and i can say unequivocally that a mac is the best choice. it's not just the graphic processing power but the elegance of the operating system. it's lightyears ahead of Microsoft. and as a big bonus NO VIRUSES! at least for now.
 
yisroelp said:
i have a computer business, both pc and mac and i can say
unequivocally that a mac is the best choice. it's not just the
graphic processing power but the elegance of the operating system.
it's lightyears ahead of Microsoft. and as a big bonus NO VIRUSES!
at least for now.
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The best choice for what? If I replaced my PC with a mac, I couldn't get any work done (as > 90% of my software is PC only).

Regarding "graphic processing power", aren't the current state of the art graphics cards (from Nvidia and ATI) available for the PC platform?

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'There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.'
 
Lets assume that you have a big enough budget to afford the dual G5 liquid cooled Mac-

For the same price ($USD) you could build a very nice and very fast AMD X2 based system which would scream along about as fast as you could want and you'd still have enough $$$ left over to buy the ZD50-200MM lens, an EX-25 and a battery grip...
 
Thanks everyone for your replies, as all I am useing now is photo shop 2.0 I will be needing to get new software too. Moved to digital last spring so this is a whole new ballgame.
 
Well, if you do consider a Mac, I'd suggest you wait another six months or so since Apple is changing to the Intel processors and that's going to cause some software commotion.

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Good Shooting,
English Bob
 
tfinch2 said:
Don't waste your hard earned money on a Mac. If you can build a
machine, look at AMD's dual-core offering. With the money saved,
you can invest in nice glass instead.
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Not that propaganda again. Sure, Macs are no discount-pcs, but especially if you look at the new iMac with the Intel Core Duo, you get a lot for your money. Especially if you want to focus your time on photography and not computer-tending, Macs are of great value.

Peter
 
Number one requirment memory. Number two requirment video (matrox or an OpenGL standard card, DirextX sacrafices quality for speed, that photos don't care about). Number three, dual core. No reason not to at this late date.

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Rob aka NoTx...
--- Forever Learning
 
HP/compaq offer them as do most reliable second tier vendors such as
Velocity Micro, Monarch Computers and others.

Gene
 
For me the most important item is a large colour managed CRT screen of at least 19". Make sure you budget for a monitor calibration device. I would reduce the processor and memory spec in favour of these.

From what I have seen even moderate priced video cards can handle the requirements of photoshop.

The hard disks are essential as is the backup media.

gary
 
Yeah get the AMD but if you can afford a new Macintel why not

I'm using OSx86 on HP P4 box and use iPhoto and Photoshop :D (HP price? $450)
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I won't jump into the PC wars, but to echo at least several thoughts from the previous responses: Get plenty of memory (1 gig minimum), an adequately fast processor (2mhz or better), and a good video card. It also makes sense to get a minimum 100gig HD (with back-up external or 2nd drives of equal or greater size). Spend some money to get a quality LCD of 17" or larger ($500 US or more) or a high quality CRT. The advice to get a calibrating device is worth following in order to maintain the proper color of your monitor. Any brand will do, as long as it meets these basic specifications--they all will be at least adequate to more than adequate. I'll let others argue which does it best.

Cheers,
HS
 
Thanks everyone for the advice it has been a help I now know quite a bit more then I did before this post.

Henry
 
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