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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 495677" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>Hi artic5693, Welcome to Mac Forums!</p><p></p><p>To your questions:</p><p></p><p>1/ Can't help here - will defer to others.</p><p></p><p>2/ The generally accepted wisdom is that you will not be able to play any really intensive games on the integrated graphics. Some threads have discussed coaxing it into playing some things, but performance is never good. </p><p></p><p>3/ I would recommend neither. NeoOffice, the Mac port of the excellent and MS-Office compatible OpenOffice, is your best bet. Completely free and truly exceptional. Check it out before you spend *any* dollars on office software.</p><p></p><p>4/ A Core 2 Duo GHz is roughly 1.4x a PIV GHz. So the 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo would be roughly equivalent, per core, to a 3.0 GHz PIV. You do get two cores, but even now, you won't find that to make much difference.</p><p></p><p>5/ In my opinion, Photoshop Elements is miles better than iPhoto, but in all fairness, they address different audiences. Photoshop Elements is for the serious photography hobbyist who is interested in investing time and effort into a good set of fairly complex tools and then learning how to use them well. iPhoto is for the casual photographer who wants a set of tools that work easily and intuitively and do most major tasks (red eye reduction and so on). So, it really depends on what you are looking for.</p><p></p><p>This is not an attempt to dissuade you from considering a Mac, but in all honesty, your 3.6 GHz PIV, equipped with an nVidia 6800 based video card, is still a pretty smoking machine in todays market (as long as you don't have Vista on it!). Perhaps your dollars might be better spent in adding more RAM and upgrading the video card to the excellent nVidia 7800 series or the even better nVidia 8xxx series out there. You might find you get more "bang for the buck".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 495677, member: 17052"] Hi artic5693, Welcome to Mac Forums! To your questions: 1/ Can't help here - will defer to others. 2/ The generally accepted wisdom is that you will not be able to play any really intensive games on the integrated graphics. Some threads have discussed coaxing it into playing some things, but performance is never good. 3/ I would recommend neither. NeoOffice, the Mac port of the excellent and MS-Office compatible OpenOffice, is your best bet. Completely free and truly exceptional. Check it out before you spend *any* dollars on office software. 4/ A Core 2 Duo GHz is roughly 1.4x a PIV GHz. So the 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo would be roughly equivalent, per core, to a 3.0 GHz PIV. You do get two cores, but even now, you won't find that to make much difference. 5/ In my opinion, Photoshop Elements is miles better than iPhoto, but in all fairness, they address different audiences. Photoshop Elements is for the serious photography hobbyist who is interested in investing time and effort into a good set of fairly complex tools and then learning how to use them well. iPhoto is for the casual photographer who wants a set of tools that work easily and intuitively and do most major tasks (red eye reduction and so on). So, it really depends on what you are looking for. This is not an attempt to dissuade you from considering a Mac, but in all honesty, your 3.6 GHz PIV, equipped with an nVidia 6800 based video card, is still a pretty smoking machine in todays market (as long as you don't have Vista on it!). Perhaps your dollars might be better spent in adding more RAM and upgrading the video card to the excellent nVidia 7800 series or the even better nVidia 8xxx series out there. You might find you get more "bang for the buck". [/QUOTE]
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