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Heya there. Big fan of Apple, yet I don't own one! (gasp!). I'm in graphic design and do quite a bit of freelance work on my Asus X52F laptop with CS5 suite.
I fell in love with OS X (Tiger) when I started working in graphic design. We used PowerPC, air-cooled G-5's, and they were awesome.
...then my company got cheap and bought Dells. Luckily, my publisher let me have one of the "graveyard" G5's... for free! Catch is, it's gutted: no hard drive.
I've been sitting on it for a while, waiting for my tax refund to to spend some money on the various hardware I'd need for it, including a new hard drive. Though I've been reading up and having my doubts. Like, the consideration of how long I'd have before it becomes a dinosaur, and the amount of power it would use (I don't like high electric bills).
Now, recently, a friend of mine has offered to give me his 2010 MacBook 7,1 A1342... for $500 minimum. He'd throw in a legit copy of CS5.5 for an extra $50... which is tantalizing for me. Oh, it also has a Japanese keyboard, but that's fine. Kinda neat, actually.
My only concern is that neither machine would be that much above and beyond my current setup, though it would be nice to have a backup computer (though I would have to get another external hard drive and format it to the Mac).
So what do you think? Where should I put that money?
I fell in love with OS X (Tiger) when I started working in graphic design. We used PowerPC, air-cooled G-5's, and they were awesome.
...then my company got cheap and bought Dells. Luckily, my publisher let me have one of the "graveyard" G5's... for free! Catch is, it's gutted: no hard drive.
I've been sitting on it for a while, waiting for my tax refund to to spend some money on the various hardware I'd need for it, including a new hard drive. Though I've been reading up and having my doubts. Like, the consideration of how long I'd have before it becomes a dinosaur, and the amount of power it would use (I don't like high electric bills).
Now, recently, a friend of mine has offered to give me his 2010 MacBook 7,1 A1342... for $500 minimum. He'd throw in a legit copy of CS5.5 for an extra $50... which is tantalizing for me. Oh, it also has a Japanese keyboard, but that's fine. Kinda neat, actually.
My only concern is that neither machine would be that much above and beyond my current setup, though it would be nice to have a backup computer (though I would have to get another external hard drive and format it to the Mac).
So what do you think? Where should I put that money?