Who knows apple mac's?

[4ced]

I'm planning on putting together a bigass setup, for music and video production soon... computer-wise, im guessing a mac would work better than a win-based pc... so what sort of macs are there, and in what order do they rank?

took a look at the apple store today, theres the apple iMac's, mac pro's, macbook pro's, and normal macbooks...

im considering a mac pro, its about 1300 for a top of the line one (just the cpu), but any advice right now would be good

[t88_power]

I've used them at work ..but never went into details ..

Ottoman worked for imachines and had em' in his ex work place..He can probably help ya

[M5_Hamann]

Mac Book Pro is the best now and no more G processors by mac

Core2 for mac now and Mac Book Pro Uses Dual Operatin System Windows XP and Leopard v10.5.

But very dear for the spec's

[Ottoman]

if u don't wanna blow a huge amount of cash..

I reccomend you go for the 20 or 24" Imac..

its got an amazing screen, quite powerful for most of your needs, still dual bootable.. and has a very small footprint...

* 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 4GB memory
* 500GB hard drive1
* 8x double-layer SuperDrive
* NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS with 512MB memory


for 850bd that's a good price..

for serious desktop work.. the Portable Mac's aren't really worth it

and the mac pro will be overkill for your application.. and buying a mac cinema display is a serious chunk of cash.. and it's silly having a powerhouse mac on a crappy regular LCD (colors displayed aren't true as well as poor res support)

[4ced]

im not thinking of a portable one.. I wanna set up a small audio video studio with the computer in the middle, so i dont want a laptop.. So the options i have are iMac and mac pro only, correct? Is the imac the one thats just a screen?

[designo]

Wow Ammar, I didnt know your name was Eric Clapton...

[4ced]

why dont you shut up and go check out the 740 thread

[Ottoman]

yeah imac is the floating screen thing

[generation_1]

hi man
how much is ur budget ?
if good so go on mac pro
with dual Processor quad core xeon

and 4 to 6 gb ram

but dont forget the Quadro PCI Express graphic card its really good for vedio editing

[4ced]

if im looking at apple's then obviously el budget shay 5a6eer :p i'm putting a good 4 or 5K for the whole studio setup, and i'm looking at a good thousand or so for the computer set up... i dunno, the imac's are better priced but not as powerful or configurable as the macpro... gotta do some serious thinking

[Kaiboobi]

I think a apple computer is an abomination

[Ottoman]

if im looking at apple's then obviously el budget shay 5a6eer :p i'm putting a good 4 or 5K for the whole studio setup, and i'm looking at a good thousand or so for the computer set up... i dunno, the imac's are better priced but not as powerful or configurable as the macpro... gotta do some serious thinking


unless ur planning on working for ILM.. the iMac will suit ur needs and more
trust me..


besides ur new to the mac world, most of ur time will be spent adjusting and learning to utilize the potential and capabilites the mac provides..