Questions for Mac Website Designers...Mac vs PC? - Page 2

Coffee1970 · #9 August 4th, 2007, 08:22 PM

All excellent advice as usual.....thanks everyone.
At another Mac forum site, everyone frowned on the G4.
People like me with a family cannot keep up with technology and its prices. Few years ago, the dual 1.25 was thousands...now, some think its ancient and worthless...yeah, whatever I guess. If I could get the quad Mac Pro I would.....I agree that a G4 beefed up could and would be nice for me.

nixgeek · #10 August 5th, 2007, 02:03 AM

Just keep in mind that not everyone needs to compute at the bleeding edge. Some people get off on that, but whatever is good enough for your needs will do just fine. You already know about my friend, but to add I have a 2 year old 17" iMac G5 as my main Mac, a 4 year old AMD Athlon XP 2400+ PC running Slackware Linux as my main PC, and a Quadra 650 that's coming up on 14 years that's currently hosting our family homepage. All of these computers suit me just fine. That dual 1.42 G4 Power Mac will suit you fine as well and nuts to those that say otherwise.

aicul · #11 August 6th, 2007, 01:42 AM

I would sell the PC you have and add that money to the $500 and then buy an Intel based mac with boot camp, parallels or fusion.

Natobasso · #12 August 6th, 2007, 12:01 PM

I am a mac fanatic and I use a PC with twin monitors at work. The moral of this story is it really does't matter so much anymore which system you use, both can do the job.

I'd prefer to use a Mac because I've got more than 20 years of experience with them, but it's quite easy to become comfortable on a PC.

I'd say know your software, know your html, css and web standards and you will be fine no matter which system you are going to use. The only caveat to this is you will want to test all your websites in IE on a PC since that's what 90% of the world still uses.

Natobasso · #13 August 6th, 2007, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aicul

I would sell the PC you have and add that money to the $500 and then buy an Intel based mac with boot camp, parallels or fusion.

Agreed.

NickT · #14 September 5th, 2007, 09:19 PM

Will $500 get you a used Intel Mac Mini on ebay? I have two I'm selling here is Australia for somewhere around the $850-900AUD mark. They are truly a lovely, quiet, small machine.

I've been web developing for about 11 years now. For the last 8 of those, I've hardly touched a PC, and if I have my way, I won't ever touch one again. Granted, I'm a programmer, not a designer, so as long as I have a great text editor, it's pretty much all I need. My ex-business partner, who was the designer, has only ever used Mac's. He's always used the Dreamweaver/Flash/Fireworks combo, and that's pretty much the same on both Mac & PC. Personally, I'd go the Mac option every single time.

If you only have $500, I'd be considering trawling ebay to see what you can afford in the Mac department. You may quite easily be able to grab a G5 iMac, which still preform pretty well. My wife has only just moved to a new MacBook Pro after doing all her Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign work on he G5. She's a childrens book illustrator/designer, and so she's been doing all her 'profesional' work in those programs.

I think there's more to it than just the tools available now. Adobe stuff is available everywhere.. but OSX is only on the Mac based, and I seriously believe it's worth considering this rock solid OS when making the decision too. Everything just works!!

All the best
N

jumiram1 · #15 August 13th, 2009, 06:20 AM

Hello Coffee1970,
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Thank You
jumi
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