I have never purchased an apple an I never will. I need raw power, versatility, and heck I play games, so an Apple is useless to me.
It's used for design because it loks nice and has capabilities to run photoshop smoothly. If you are a developer and you want to create high-poly models in programs like 3DStudio max, or if like me you need a machine that can compile huge programs regularly into a game, then test the game then you need a PC. Heck, I use MS Visual C++.NET so there's no option. Workstations are PC's, dual processor maybe, but rarely an Apple of any kind.
Good old PC's, if you want to upgrade it's simple, with IMacs and the like, you need to buy a new Apple.
Apple are getting left behind, much like Intel in my opinion, I have always used intel chips and chipsets but I think I may be switching to AMD for their Hammer processors, 64 bits is going to make a ridiculous difference to what I do. I don't know why intel aren't doing anything to battle this, their latest idea being Hyper-Threading on the new chips over 3GHZ.
Oli.
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I have never purchased an apple an I never will. I need raw power, versatility, and heck I play games, so an Apple is useless to me. It's used for design because it loks nice and has capabilities to run photoshop smoothly. If you are a developer and you want to create high-poly models in programs like 3DStudio max, or if like me you need a machine that can compile huge programs regularly into a game, then test the game then you need a PC. Heck, I use MS Visual C++.NET so there's no option. Workstations are PC's, dual processor maybe, but rarely an Apple of any kind. Good old PC's, if you want to upgrade it's simple, with IMacs and the like, you need to buy a new Apple. Apple are getting left behind, much like Intel in my opinion, I have always used intel chips and chipsets but I think I may be switching to AMD for their Hammer processors, 64 bits is going to make a ridiculous difference to what I do. I don't know why intel aren't doing anything to battle this, their latest idea being Hyper-Threading on the new chips over 3GHZ. Oli.