DrEvil270183 Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Evening all.This is not a debate about Mac Vs PC. I just making inquiries.Basically I have a Desktop PC at the moment. Its about 5 years old, 1 gb ram, 128mb Radion graphics card that takes second monitor, 2.8ghz processor, 250bg harddrive, dvd writer and cd writer, usually ports etc. I'm thinking about changing to Mac, and due to photography needs thinking something portable will be better but also good for photoshop/illustrator. Then a monitor at home to plug into for more screen space to edit etc.I'm kind of okay with PCs, understand what is what but somethings seem different with macs. I'm currently looking at something similar tooMacBook# 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo# 4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB# 160GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm# SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)# Keyboard (British) & User’s Guide (English)# Apple Mini-DVI to VGA AdapterAre the Macbook Pro a lot better for my needs rather than the macbook. Anything to look out for second hand as again I'm not sure about the differences between each mac other than the obvious stuff. Cheers,Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 These days the specs of a mac mean the same as a pc since macs now use intel cpu's.If you get a macbook second hand make sure its a core 2 duo one and not a G4/5.I think nick carter on here is selling his checkout the mac problem thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Yeah if you're looking to buy one now I'd try get Nicks off him, it's a pretty good machine and he treats his stuff really well If you want more deetz then my msn is iamjonmack@googlemail.com, would be easier to talk on there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nc7r Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 I think nick carter on here is selling his checkout the mac problem thread.Yeah if you're looking to buy one now I'd try get Nicks off him, it's a pretty good machine and he treats his stuff really well :)oCheers for the heads up and nice words I actually sold my MacBook Pro a few weeks back to a dude over facebook for £800. I think it was a bit of a bargain for him and okay deal for me because it was just sat on my floor.If you're using a MacBook for photography I think you'll be fine, especially with 4GB of ram. I've got the 2.4GHz unibody MacBook and it's fine with that kinda stuff. I've got it hooked up to a 24" Samsung external monitor too. Differences aren't that big between the MacBook and MacBook Pro mainly screen size, graphics cards and processor clock speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrEvil270183 Posted March 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Thanks for the advise, still saving at the moment but wanted to know what to aim for. Prob be in touch when I'm closer to purchasing. Cheers again,Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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