You're essentially looking for a cheap gaming machine, even though you're not playing games. You need RAM, a good vid card, a bit of speed, a bit of HD space, and you need it on the cheap. Apple can't give you all those things in 1 package.
I'd recommend building your own PC with good parts--asus mobo, good vid card, RAM, etc.
Probably come down to less than $600 for something faster and more usuable than the iMac.
Hell, for the money you save, you could put a mac mini and a KVM inside the PC's case and have the best of both worlds.
That's what the Macs prefect for, unfortunately Photoshop doesn't take advantage of more than 2GB RAM or the 64-bit (i think), or CoreImage and there's just been an update. BUT the version on the Mac is better than Windows (some Acrobat features are missing however). I'm using a PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz with 1 GB RAM 128 MB VRAM and Adobe Creative Suite 1.1
It has been reported that Photoshop CS2 for Mac will allow you to take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM
Also it's a bit of a dirty hack but someone else has tried it and it works if you have say, 4GB of RAM, assign 2GB max for Photoshop CS1, make a 1GB RAMdisk, assign ram disk as primary Scratch disk, voila..! 3GB of Photoshop goodness in RAM *sigh* that's beautiful *sniff*
Get and iMac or a PC. Don't get a Power Mac. They're overpriced and not that cool. But if you've got a load of money, i guess the power mac would be great.
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I'd recommend building your own PC with good parts--asus mobo, good vid card, RAM, etc.
Probably come down to less than $600 for something faster and more usuable than the iMac.
Hell, for the money you save, you could put a mac mini and a KVM inside the PC's case and have the best of both worlds.
Originally posted by MacCrazy
That's what the Macs prefect for, unfortunately Photoshop doesn't take advantage of more than 2GB RAM or the 64-bit (i think), or CoreImage and there's just been an update. BUT the version on the Mac is better than Windows (some Acrobat features are missing however). I'm using a PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz with 1 GB RAM 128 MB VRAM and Adobe Creative Suite 1.1
It has been reported that Photoshop CS2 for Mac will allow you to take advantage of more than 2GB of RAM
Also it's a bit of a dirty hack but someone else has tried it and it works
Originally posted by sunilraman
assign 2GB max for Photoshop CS1, make a 1GB RAMdisk, assign ram disk as primary Scratch disk
How do you make a RAM disk? Is this something OS X is capable of out of the box?
Originally posted by Gon
How do you make a RAM disk? Is this something OS X is capable of out of the box?
you can use Rambunctious
http://www.clarkwood.com/rambunctious/