on 11/15/04 2:46 PM, Yersinia at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andrew Litt writes, > > <Hi. I am planning to get a new mac over thanksgiving weekend. I have > a few questions. > > First, does the Apple Store do any thanksgiving promos? > > My computing uses are for video editing, photoshop 8, > macromedia suite mx 2004 and running http, ftp, imap and smtp > servers. What should i get. 20 inch G5 imac, dual 2.0 ghz tower or a > dual 2.5 ghz tower.> > > If these are the kinds of projects you do, and that's the kind of budget > you have, where you can consider buying a beautiful brand new G5 -- > frighteningly but wonderfully huge from my standpoint -- if I were you > I'd go all out and buy the whole hog (the 2.5 tower). This assuming space > on your desk or wherever you use your computer for a tower (to wit: the > reason why I wanted and bought a G3 of the desktop persuasion rather than > a tower was precisely for space considerations). Here's why I'd get the > 2.5 if I were you: > > I can't tell you how many posts I've seen on these LEM lists -- I sub to > this list and the Powerbook List now, and I also used to sub to the PCI > List and I've even been on the Swap List -- from people posting about > processor upgrades; where to get them, how much they cost, how to install > them, how to troubleshoot them and so on. Everybody wants more and > better, and from what you say it sounds to me like you're going to be > running a lot of computer intensive applications and doing a good deal of > multitasking. Yeah, better processors than this will no doubt be released > in the future, but if you can afford even a 2.0, can a 2.5 be that much > more? Especially if it keeps you from having to upgrade for awhile? So if > I were you, I'd get the Mac with the best processor you can to start off > with, even if it doesn't come with the monitor of your dreams. Or maybe > you can negotiate with the salesperson concerning the monitor; in any > case, you can always buy another, bigger monitor another time, right? And > you can probably find those cheap and used, which I'll bet won't be the > case with the 2.5 even if Apple does run some kind of Thanksgiving > holiday special sale (sorry, I don't know if they'll be doing this). > > My goodness. Have fun with that thing!! :-) > > ~Yersinia. what is the adress of the wap list i joined one on low end mac but havent seen yet any postings.
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