mac vs. pc

You still don't have too many reasons in my opinion, other then the lower incidence of any viris threat, but if you are running a good AV I wouldn't consider that enough cause to switch... there are some PC advantages with software availability.

There are old threads you could search & read much more highly charged opinions for quite some time.

 

There are still many differences between the PC and Mac, but less obvious to the user nowadays. If you already own the software, there is nothing to gain by switching platforms now. However, if you have to buy everything from scratch, you might want to research this more, but it seems to me that the Mac stuff is always more expensive.

I use both PC and Mac for various reasons. In part, I started out in the mid 80s and chose PC due to the type of software I was running then. I got into Mac around 2000 as I need software compatibility with some of my customers, and I was heartily sick of the MS Hegemon.

 

The processors that are in the Mac Pro described above are so far better than the Pentium D that there is no comparison. And there are 2 of them!

Dave

 

This topic has been beat to death!

I went to MAC 10 years ago because I go tired of getting infected with viruses and spy ware. and or making my PCs fort Knox in order to block them out.

I also go tired of power supplies, mother boards, sound cards going out all the time.

My first 233mhz G3 still works to this day with out ever breaking down
my 5 year old G4 power book has never had a problem.. not one
my 2 year old G5 is still my main work computer.

I do own PC's too and I replace parts in them all the time. and in the last ten years I have been through about 10 PCs.

With out going into some long drawn out nerd, geek fest of an argument, I would just say that in my experience The MAC just works better and is a well build machine.

 

As for this Dell.. Well it's OK but I personally would never buy a Dell. If you going to get a PC then have one custom built by a local computer dealer. You will get better parts and an all around better computer for the some price.

 

It will be fast enough for light graphic work such as vinyl cutting and small to mid sized raster work.

If you ever plan on doing large vector files with 20-30 layers and linked images such as DS2 or EPS files, or large Raster processing and separations then the computer above will be inadequate.

 

Huge is a interpreted differently by different people. Trailer sized 72ppi raster files you will probably be OK but your maxing out your recourses.

Huge to me is a 9 color spot process art file with 30-60 layers with 12 linked DS2 files set up to separate at 180LPI.

I would seriously either get the fastest Athlon processor with at least 4gigs of ram and a terabit of storage or Get one of the faster MAC Pro towers with the same RAM and storage.