[X4U] (POT) Graphic Artist Question

[Tim Collier]

On Aug 4, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> Your kidding right? An iMac w/2 gigs of ram. The OS and In-Design  
> and or Quark, by itself will eat that right up. Not to mention,  
> ever want to expand? Forget it!
> Design stations need the ability to be upgraded and the ability add  
> more storage, easily! Maybe your right about some of this, it's a  
> little more, but myself working in this field as a designer and now  
> a tech support specialist still in the industry, all I know is I  
> get far lesser complaints about slow-downs etc, the kind you would  
> get with a 2/gig iMac.
>
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:31 PM, nk wrote:
>
>> I know the impulse is to go for Max firepower, but the fact is  
>> that 2D illustration can be done with far less than a Dual core  
>> Xeon with 8 gigs of RAM...THAT kind of a rig is intended for 3D  
>> animation, video, multimedia.
>> ...heavy duty high end retouching, this kind of rig will do fine.
>>
>> adobe's creative suite is standard now. lots of places still use  
>> quark, but if you're firing up a department, might as well go with  
>> the inevitable standard now.
>>
>>

>>
>> On Aug 3, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah;
>>> 	I probably should have given just a LITTLE more info; I had  
>>> intended to but forgot.  I'm looking for both Hardware and  
>>> Software recommendations.  They will be doing [at first anyway] a  
>>> printed catalog redo that's a couple of hundred pages currently,  
>>> and with the new pictures of the products, will likely be MUCH  
>>> more when they finish.
>>
>> ____________________________________
I've got to agree there.  I own a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro and a Mac  
Pro.  I've got the Mac Pro tricked out with 6 gig of RAM now and the  
MacBook Pro is at 2 gig.  Got 4 750 gig hard drives in the Mac Pro.   
I don't do nearly the type of highend graphics work that the above  
poster does, but I wouldn't even try to run PhotoShop
CS3 and Dreamweaver and Flash all at the same time on the MacBook  
Pro.  It's just not designed for it.  The Mac Pro is.  It runs much  
faster being a quad core 2.66 and with the added RAM, is capable of  
handling just about everything.  I use the MacBook Pro for some minor  
Dreamweaver work, email and web browsing.  Apple designed it's  
different machines with certain end users in mind.  You have to  
remember this.

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Tim Collier
MacBook Pro 2.33 gig
http://www.timcolliermiami.com/