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<blockquote data-quote="m1k" data-source="post: 50010"><p>Hey ldj,</p><p></p><p>PowerBooks are absolutely amazing for graphics design and web design, I strongly reccomend them. I've only tried PhotoShop a few times on my 12" PB but it runs amazingly fast. Macs are definitely faster than PCs when it comes to graphic design. </p><p></p><p>Macs have pretty much all the software you can find on PC, well, all the major ones. That's because so many people use Macs for graphic design, just like you. Trust me, you'd be hard-pressed to find a major software company that doesn't release its products on Mac. As for your small DHTML creation software, can it run on Windows 98? If so, just get VPC for Windows 98 on a Mac, it's much cheaper, and since you're only going to use it for one program, it's probably a good idea not to spend too much.</p><p></p><p>Don't worry about the G5 PowerBooks, Apple has said numerous times that they're nowhere near releasing them at all. The iMac G5 was a step in the right direction, but it probably will be at least a year until the G5 PBs are released. A 2.5GHz G5 processor in a PowerMac needed a full-blown liquid cooling system to operate at normal temperatures, I seriously doubt Apple will be able to fit the G5 processors into notebooks for quite a while. Get a PowerBook G4, don't worry about the G5's because they probably won't come out for at least a year.</p><p></p><p>The 17" PowerBook is the top gun of notebooks, period. If you want the best notebook money can buy today, go for the 17" equipped with 2gigs of ram and 128MB of video ram. But if you don't really need the screen real estate that 17" gives you, go for the SuperDrive-equipped 15". It has exactly the same innards as the 17", it just has a smaller screen. If you don't need the screen size, go for the 15" as it's a lot easier to carry around than the 17". I personally have the 12", and while it's not as powerful as the 15" or the 17", it's so **** portable it isn't funny.</p><p></p><p>It basically comes down to if you need a big screen for working with 3-4 PhotoShop images side by side or whatever. If so, go for the 17". If you only work on one or two at a time, I strongly urge you to go for the 15" as it's got a big screen but it's much more portable than the 17", it even has the same innards. If possible max out the GPU RAM to 128MB as a preorder option. If you don't really need extra RAM just stick with the 512MB Apple gives you, and when you want to upgrade in the future upgrade to 2gigs, which will be a lot cheaper then than it is now.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps, and good luck deciding, it's always hard!</p><p></p><p>-m1k</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="m1k, post: 50010"] Hey ldj, PowerBooks are absolutely amazing for graphics design and web design, I strongly reccomend them. I've only tried PhotoShop a few times on my 12" PB but it runs amazingly fast. Macs are definitely faster than PCs when it comes to graphic design. Macs have pretty much all the software you can find on PC, well, all the major ones. That's because so many people use Macs for graphic design, just like you. Trust me, you'd be hard-pressed to find a major software company that doesn't release its products on Mac. As for your small DHTML creation software, can it run on Windows 98? If so, just get VPC for Windows 98 on a Mac, it's much cheaper, and since you're only going to use it for one program, it's probably a good idea not to spend too much. Don't worry about the G5 PowerBooks, Apple has said numerous times that they're nowhere near releasing them at all. The iMac G5 was a step in the right direction, but it probably will be at least a year until the G5 PBs are released. A 2.5GHz G5 processor in a PowerMac needed a full-blown liquid cooling system to operate at normal temperatures, I seriously doubt Apple will be able to fit the G5 processors into notebooks for quite a while. Get a PowerBook G4, don't worry about the G5's because they probably won't come out for at least a year. The 17" PowerBook is the top gun of notebooks, period. If you want the best notebook money can buy today, go for the 17" equipped with 2gigs of ram and 128MB of video ram. But if you don't really need the screen real estate that 17" gives you, go for the SuperDrive-equipped 15". It has exactly the same innards as the 17", it just has a smaller screen. If you don't need the screen size, go for the 15" as it's a lot easier to carry around than the 17". I personally have the 12", and while it's not as powerful as the 15" or the 17", it's so **** portable it isn't funny. It basically comes down to if you need a big screen for working with 3-4 PhotoShop images side by side or whatever. If so, go for the 17". If you only work on one or two at a time, I strongly urge you to go for the 15" as it's got a big screen but it's much more portable than the 17", it even has the same innards. If possible max out the GPU RAM to 128MB as a preorder option. If you don't really need extra RAM just stick with the 512MB Apple gives you, and when you want to upgrade in the future upgrade to 2gigs, which will be a lot cheaper then than it is now. Hope this helps, and good luck deciding, it's always hard! -m1k [/QUOTE]
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