- Joined
- Oct 31, 2008
- Messages
- 28
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 1
Hello everyone, I'm typing on my very first Mac! Although its not what you think, its an old G4. I got it for dirt cheap so I could check out Macs, I've been a PC guy my whole life. I may keep this Mac around but I'm thinking about getting a real Mac. Real meaning something I will actually be able to do my photography stuff with. I installed Lightroom but its really slow, although I do have 896mb RAM.
Anyway, enough introduction and background, heres my question. Right now my PC is a AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 1g of RAM and a Radeon x1600Pro 512MB DDR. So its a dual core right around 2.0Ghz.
I'm actually quite happy with the performance of my PC although I would upgrade the RAM if I were to keep it. I'm just thinking of switching to Mac for the sake of switching.
If I were to switch to a G5 with dual core right around 2.0 Ghz and a gig or so of RAM, will I get about the same performance that I'm getting from my PC? I'm just concerned about losing horsepower because I think my PC runs quite fast. I don't really want to save for an iMac because I would want the 24" (I have a 22" monitor now and couldn't go any smaller) and when I buy a new computer I think I want it to be a Macbook. So if I switch, I want it to be a fairly even exchange...
Right now there is a G5 single core 1.8Ghz with 1g RAM for $500 with a 17" Cinema Display (which I'd probably just sell) How much photo editing power would I lose?
Sorry for the long post but I will appreciate the input, thanks!
Chad
Anyway, enough introduction and background, heres my question. Right now my PC is a AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with 1g of RAM and a Radeon x1600Pro 512MB DDR. So its a dual core right around 2.0Ghz.
I'm actually quite happy with the performance of my PC although I would upgrade the RAM if I were to keep it. I'm just thinking of switching to Mac for the sake of switching.
If I were to switch to a G5 with dual core right around 2.0 Ghz and a gig or so of RAM, will I get about the same performance that I'm getting from my PC? I'm just concerned about losing horsepower because I think my PC runs quite fast. I don't really want to save for an iMac because I would want the 24" (I have a 22" monitor now and couldn't go any smaller) and when I buy a new computer I think I want it to be a Macbook. So if I switch, I want it to be a fairly even exchange...
Right now there is a G5 single core 1.8Ghz with 1g RAM for $500 with a 17" Cinema Display (which I'd probably just sell) How much photo editing power would I lose?
Sorry for the long post but I will appreciate the input, thanks!
Chad