Should I buy an iMac for graphics work?

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iMac

Friends, recently the question arose of buying a new computer, my old HP G62 can no longer even download windows 8 release preview. A desktop will definitely take the place of a laptop. All that is required of him is to work with photoshop / illustrator / dreamweaver and microsot office. Is it worth buying a powerful system unit with a monitor + windows 8 on board or this imac 21" ? Will there be problems when switching to a Mac and is it really pleasant to work on os x mountain lion?

Answer 1

A few months ago I faced the same choice. I thought for a long time and chose the second, despite the complete absence of flight hours in makos. Most of all, the choice was influenced by the almost complete absence of noise, a minimum of wires and a good (really very good) screen. I was frightened by the management that was mentioned in the denver comment , but after a couple of weeks I got used to it and changed my mind about installing any parallel operating systems. The only thing is that I had to replace the mini-keyboard with an extended wired one - it is much more convenient to use.
In general, here the whole question is not even in the choice of the operating system (both there and here there is a choice), so I gave my reasoning specifically regarding the pieces of iron.
By the way, if you lean towards the aimak, make an effort to purchase 27" instead of 21. It's worth it. Especially if you are supposed to "work with photoshop / illustrator / dreamweaver" - in my opinion, an ideal option.

Answer 2

The Mac is convenient and pleasant to work with. Now I have a MacBook Pro, if necessary and possible, I will buy an iMac. I'm not going back to Windows.
Now I should probably be stoned.

Answer 3

And how can you find out if you will be comfortable on a poppy? For example, the macos infuriates me over trifles, I couldn’t change seats - abnormal anti-aliasing, the mouse moves without acceleration, Home / End will scroll to the end of the page instead of input, you can’t expand the window to full screen, well, and much more. But everything is very subjective, someone just the opposite likes it all.

Answer 4

Many designers and/or hipsters love the poppy, but I don't quite understand why. The funny thing is that in the end they run Windows on it in a virtual machine to run various programs like Corel and Xara. IMHO, it's better to immediately install Windows and not bathe.
I bought myself a Mac mini two months ago. Installed 8 GB of RAM. I do not know how the poppy manages to eat all the RAM, but he does it. At work, my Linux computer is generally weaker and has 4 GB of RAM, it works faster and faster on Linux and the RAM does not clog up. And the previous home computer had only 2GB of RAM and didn’t get stupid like that. On the face of a memory leak. In general, I did not immediately experience much joy from the poppy, but I thought maybe I need to get used to getting used to it. It's been 2 months and I'm still not used to their keyboard shortcuts. I find them extremely uncomfortable and illogical.
As a substitute for Windows or Linux, it also does not roll. There are not enough clouds of Windows programs, there are very few games and Linux ports are inferior. Firstly, it doesn’t take a lot of standard Linux programs (I need it for web development), and secondly, there is no standard package manager (there are all sorts of third-party ones like homebrew and macports, but they are not like apt-get).
With drivers, things are a little better than in Linux, but a hundred times worse than in Windows. Navigation in the explorer is not convenient. Tax manager (Activity manager) does not correctly show the amount of memory consumed. For example, I have 7.8GB occupied, the browser + flash shows 1.5GB together. I exit the browser, after which 3GB is freed up for me. In general, a bunch of different things, from which in general you want to break the keyboard.
But then again, at work, we have a bunch of designers sitting on poppies, rejoicing and arrogantly looking at the windows.
In general, I will install myself Linux for web development and Windows for everything else.
If you are a designer and a hipster, then take a poppy, if there is no better Windows or Linux. For designers, of course, Linux is not an option.

Answer 5

I think there will be no special problems, everything is extremely simple.
Yes, it’s really nice to work on osx, everything is so fast, the system works stably, despite the fact that I upgraded from snow leopard to lion then to mountain lion, I’ve been using poppy for the second year.
I also think about imac, now macbook pro
Yes, I use it for, graphics + layout + php

Answer 6

Before you take an iMac, you must understand that this is the same laptop in hardware, but tightly attached to a large monitor. And if the beauty of a laptop is mobility + you can choose any monitor you like, then here you are tying yourself to your desk tightly =)

Answer 7

It seems to me that under Windows you will build yourself a much more powerful machine much cheaper. Photoshop and Illustrator will work faster there, MS Office under Windows, in my opinion, is also better than on a Mac. If I were you, I would still look towards Windows. (I have been using Macs for a very long time, this is my main computer, but I don’t see the point in taking it for Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign.)

Answer 8

as a web developer on a Mac, it’s inconvenient for me (I use it only for video conferencing, I don’t develop in it). Everything is too different in it - from the OS and programs to the keyboard and mouse.
It was somehow easier and more pleasant to switch from Windows to Linux.
There are a lot of cute and cuddly things on the Mac, though, especially if you use a few Apple products. Personally, I really liked Airserver - I turned on the music on the iPad, pressed 1 button on the tablet - and now the music is playing through the Mac's speakers.

Answer 9

My advice is to take a macbook pro and to it a normal 24-inch S-IPS monitor for 10 thousand.

Answer 10

Sat on iMac for about a year. So, there are moments that are annoying (the extremely inconvenient keyboard shortcuts mentioned above, home and end curves). It's really difficult to get used to, but even if you get used to it, the work slows down a bit.
But there are quite a few positives - a really good screen and a huge performance boost in packages from Adobe. On Macs, they actually work much faster (compared a more powerful pure Win7 computer with an iMac). The interface is really much faster and more stable than Windows (the remnants of unix make themselves felt). Even my current very powerful computer has to be restarted a couple of times a week due to the appearance of brakes, the poppy can not be restarted for months. Another nice point is the Magic Mouse - a wonderful thing. Under Windows, you cannot get such a convenient scrolling due to its software limitations (scrolling only line by line).
Please note that at first it will be unusual due to a different acceleration of the mouse, then you get used to it without any problems, although there is a special one. software, which partially eliminates this problem. I never got used to the fact that you can’t maximize windows to full screen (I had to install a special program for this ).
In my opinion, the Mac is well suited for design and layout, but the question is whether you can get used to the points mentioned above.

Answer 11

I took a poppy in the middle of 2009, the same - 21.5.
I remember that I really didn’t like the fonts in the browser, but I got used to it pretty quickly.
I understood that I would not play on it, and the main plus for me was the noiselessness.
It is really quiet, no laptop will work so silently. Somewhere since the beginning of 2010, I stopped turning it off altogether.
Last week I replaced the screw on the ssd, put the mountain lion. Everything began to fly and flutter in comparison with a conventional propeller.
take it, you won't regret it;) only the ssd will need to be plugged in right away, though I don't know what will happen with the guarantee.

Answer 12

there were 3 imacs in my life, now I have sold and left Macbook Pro + Macbook Air + Apple Display.
You need to work on the big screen - plugged 2 wires and that's it.

Answer 13

ratkke , but what's stopping you from just paying for good and necessary applications?

Answer 14

Already wrote on this topic, I will add a little.
Mobility, of course, will not. The first time I came across a defective one, died a week later. After several trips with him, I can say: this box weighing under 20 kg can only be transported by car. It is advisable to take an uninterruptible power supply to load it, I have such a unit for about 15 minutes.
Now for the good stuff:

• Desktop iron is obviously more powerful and becomes obsolete more slowly. You can put 16GB of RAM and forget about the upgrade for many years.
• The iMac 27" screen is simply amazing. After it, 1920x1080 starts to be missed. By the way, only a monitor of this size and class costs 30k.
• iMac is not only suitable for work: as soon as it appeared, it immediately became a multimedia center. It is very convenient to listen to music and watch movies, especially if you take the Apple Remote into the load.

Answer 15

Everything has been said above.
I have an iMac 27 "- I did not regret it.
On the second table there is Thunderbolt + Air. A little less convenient (keyboard and touch are one), but portable.

Answer 16

for 46-50k you can take a matte ips nec 23" or dell 27" plus a computer with ssd / hdd and a top i5 in a case not much larger than mac mini, for example) without problems with repairs or upgrades, if you fumble a little in this. By the way, a question for connoisseurs - is the mysterious core i5 2.5 GHz in the i5-2400S aimag?)

Answer 17

Not worth it

Answer 18

I used to ask this question too, until the IMac 27 "and the top-end Mac Pro appeared at work. I will say one thing, windows is much cheaper. I moved to a poppy quickly, in principle everything is clear, there are moments that annoy, there are, on the contrary, more pleasant. Having worked on for a week, the desire to put such a home has completely disappeared, because the price tag is much higher, and the difference in practice is small (well, except for the incredible design, of course)
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Answer 19

For 7 years I sat on Linux - Ubuntu, OpenSuse, until I ran into the problem of converting NEF files (Nikon digital negative format) to JPG, Linux has many different converters that allow you to quickly convert a large group of files at a time. But one of them could not come close to Nikon's native ViewNx2 converter, no matter how I played with the settings, no one could come close to the quality obtained in the native windows converter. The converter is made for Windows and poppy, I had to crawl to poppy.
As a former Linux user, not very happy with the transition, too many awkward moments, the whole story of my ordeals can be read here gegsite.com/index.php/111-khakintosh