hello there!
i have a pretty common question i guess.. i need some oppinions to help me decide properly.
i need a new computer, the old tincan doesnt bring it no more, and now its time to get a new MACHINE.
i am a professional photographer/ gfx. designer, mostly doing compositings, and that means i want at least 16 gb RAM, since my compositings are usually huge and have like 2389740934 layers, and photoshop eats RAM for breakfast. i just want at least 16 gigs, thats one thign im sure of. i also need a good processor for 3d rendering.
"get a mac" you would say, but for me its not a simple decision, because i am also an oldschool pc user and gamer, and generally a person who likes riggin stuff in very custom ways and buying weird gadgets. atm i am working on a wacom cintiq 21ux, for which i literally chainsawed the furniture of my workplace so it would fit on my table; pen in one hand, logitech g13 gamepad in other..for photoshop, yeah.. and the next thing planned is apple wireless KB for my PC, and i will be so happy about cracking the **** out of it and making it work with customly mapped keys wit hassigned macros or some stuff
anyway, what i want from you is to tell me your experiences with switchign from pc to mac. especially people who feel/felt like i do now.
please dont tell me how awsome macs look and make my penis bigger etc., i know that and agree with you on that fully, but its not a point for me at all. in fact, all the apple hype has been keeping me from even remotely thinking of getting a mac for years
because what i want from my new computer is:
- customization possibility. i am not familiar with mac OS, so i dont know anything about how much you can rig it, but on windows i can force the ****ed thing to just do what i want, have flyout panels with shortcuts where i want them, and remove useless menu points im never using etc. it all is usually an ugly workaround, but it works for me after all
- ability to use all sorts of weird gadgets and customize those too. for example, can you make logitech programmable mice work properly on mac OS?? heard there were some problems there
- ability to run windows natively without problems, since some of the oldest games im still playing wont run on a virtual machine for sure
- that it just WORKS and doesnt fail me when i have a strict deadline etc., and also that its durable and so solid, that you can use it to break open vault doors by smashing it against them if you wanted to. macs fufill this point i guess.
- graphic card should support pc games
what i dont care about:
- looks, fashion, etc.
why i am considering a mac pro at all:
- last night my tincan wont turn on, and then when the system booted finally, after 1,5 hours of swithcing on and off, it deleted my user preferences from wacom drivers and ****, and then ,after i restored all, and finally did just a bit of work on my picture, it crashed and left me raging liek a manpig. that was annoying, and im tired of getting THAT sort of thing, also tired of having to reinstall my OS every 3 month or so, because it gets clogged up liek a WC drainage pipe and jsut wont start at some point.
my machine must obey me, for i am its rightful master and the only god.
alternatives to a mac:
- custom-build pc with i7 or xeon, 24 gb ram, SSD-RAID as OS drive, and win7. SS
i dindt try win 7 yet, but i seen reviews and heard from friends it is pretty much more stable and kickass then XP, which i had ever since.
--- if i can nateively run windows on a mac, then i can generally not screw up much getting a mac.. except for the price and lack of SSD drives, or at least i cant find the option to get a mac pro with SSD RAID
please post your oppinions, with pros and cons for mac and win 7 PC
i have a pretty common question i guess.. i need some oppinions to help me decide properly.
i need a new computer, the old tincan doesnt bring it no more, and now its time to get a new MACHINE.
i am a professional photographer/ gfx. designer, mostly doing compositings, and that means i want at least 16 gb RAM, since my compositings are usually huge and have like 2389740934 layers, and photoshop eats RAM for breakfast. i just want at least 16 gigs, thats one thign im sure of. i also need a good processor for 3d rendering.
"get a mac" you would say, but for me its not a simple decision, because i am also an oldschool pc user and gamer, and generally a person who likes riggin stuff in very custom ways and buying weird gadgets. atm i am working on a wacom cintiq 21ux, for which i literally chainsawed the furniture of my workplace so it would fit on my table; pen in one hand, logitech g13 gamepad in other..for photoshop, yeah.. and the next thing planned is apple wireless KB for my PC, and i will be so happy about cracking the **** out of it and making it work with customly mapped keys wit hassigned macros or some stuff
anyway, what i want from you is to tell me your experiences with switchign from pc to mac. especially people who feel/felt like i do now.
please dont tell me how awsome macs look and make my penis bigger etc., i know that and agree with you on that fully, but its not a point for me at all. in fact, all the apple hype has been keeping me from even remotely thinking of getting a mac for years
because what i want from my new computer is:
- customization possibility. i am not familiar with mac OS, so i dont know anything about how much you can rig it, but on windows i can force the ****ed thing to just do what i want, have flyout panels with shortcuts where i want them, and remove useless menu points im never using etc. it all is usually an ugly workaround, but it works for me after all
- ability to use all sorts of weird gadgets and customize those too. for example, can you make logitech programmable mice work properly on mac OS?? heard there were some problems there
- ability to run windows natively without problems, since some of the oldest games im still playing wont run on a virtual machine for sure
- that it just WORKS and doesnt fail me when i have a strict deadline etc., and also that its durable and so solid, that you can use it to break open vault doors by smashing it against them if you wanted to. macs fufill this point i guess.
- graphic card should support pc games
what i dont care about:
- looks, fashion, etc.
why i am considering a mac pro at all:
- last night my tincan wont turn on, and then when the system booted finally, after 1,5 hours of swithcing on and off, it deleted my user preferences from wacom drivers and ****, and then ,after i restored all, and finally did just a bit of work on my picture, it crashed and left me raging liek a manpig. that was annoying, and im tired of getting THAT sort of thing, also tired of having to reinstall my OS every 3 month or so, because it gets clogged up liek a WC drainage pipe and jsut wont start at some point.
my machine must obey me, for i am its rightful master and the only god.
alternatives to a mac:
- custom-build pc with i7 or xeon, 24 gb ram, SSD-RAID as OS drive, and win7. SS
i dindt try win 7 yet, but i seen reviews and heard from friends it is pretty much more stable and kickass then XP, which i had ever since.
--- if i can nateively run windows on a mac, then i can generally not screw up much getting a mac.. except for the price and lack of SSD drives, or at least i cant find the option to get a mac pro with SSD RAID
please post your oppinions, with pros and cons for mac and win 7 PC