new mac pro.. (1 Viewer)

[the departed]

affordable. and powerful.
uh oh. somebody stop me!!


also rumour has it theyll be announcing their new range of touchscreen flash memory laptops very soon.

 

[Goodbye]

I know.

Might pop round to the credit union and tell em I need a new kitchen

 

[the departed]

i presume youve gone to 'configure it' and maxed everything just for fun.

i came to 24 thousand quid.. 32 gigs of ram. can you imagine?
im using 2 gig now.

 

[CitySickness]

I dunno, the Pro range is just getting overly-powerful for my needs these days. I'd consider it if I had a suitable LCD display ready to go, but the 24-inch iMac is looking better value right now. I'll have to sell off the old G4 and PC first though.

 

[ernesto]

meh.
i just bought this bad boy:

being delivered tomorrow thee hee hee!!!

 

[CitySickness]

meh.
i just bought this bad boy:

being delivered tomorrow thee hee hee!!!

Let us know how you get on with it - curious to see if the glossy screen gets to be a pain in the tits after a while...

 

[Umfufu]

I dunno, the Pro range is just getting overly-powerful for my needs these days. I'd consider it if I had a suitable LCD display ready to go, but the 24-inch iMac is looking better value right now. I'll have to sell off the old G4 and PC first though.

iMac is a sexy little bitch alright.
I've got my eye on it too.

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Let us know how you get on with it - curious to see if the glossy screen gets to be a pain in the tits after a while...

No problems here so far.

 

[CitySickness]

No problems here so far.

Are you using it for work?

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Are you using it for work?

Negatory.

 

[Space]

See these imacs. Would they be worth buying as a full time photoshop workstation? Can you add more ram to them at all?

My da really wants a mac for work stuff....

 

[CitySickness]

The 24-inch takes a max of 4GB - always buy 3rd party RAM though, or Apple will charge you through the nose.

 

[ernesto]

See these imacs. Would they be worth buying as a full time photoshop workstation? Can you add more ram to them at all?

My da really wants a mac for work stuff....

new macs & CS3

this be one of the ones i gots.
yes, the RAM were upgraded.

 

[Wilbert]

meh.
i just bought this bad boy:

being delivered tomorrow thee hee hee!!!

I got the 24" one of these. Very happy with it. Works a treat. The glossy screen is not a problem either. A glass screen makes everything very vibrant. I switched on the powerbook after a few weeks using this and the screen looked like it was being lit from within by a candle.

 

[ernesto]

I got the 24" one of these. Very happy with it. Works a treat. The glossy screen is not a problem either. A glass screen makes everything very vibrant. I switched on the powerbook after a few weeks using this and the screen looked like it was being lit from within by a candle.

i get that alot even from going from my flatmates year old imac to my powerbook. huge difference.

 

[CitySickness]

Yeah, I'm sure the glossy screen looks great for movies and all that jazz, but I'm guessing the super-saturated colours could be misleading in terms of photography/design output - unless you're colour-calibrated up the wazoo. Speaking of which, anybody here used any of the Pantone Huey calibration yokes?

 

[Space]

Yeah I saw the issues with CS3 alright, cheers boss. Prolly be a while yet, but I'll suggest an imac to him anyhow.

Yeah, I'm sure the glossy screen looks great for movies and all that jazz, but I'm guessing the super-saturated colours could be misleading in terms of photography/design output - unless you're colour-calibrated up the wazoo. Speaking of which, anybody here used any of the Pantone Huey calibration yokes?

We (me and me da) use the GretagMacbeth Eye-One Match. It's pretty darn good. For printer colour management he just uses the fuji driver for the paper. (Any printing I do is off his pc.)

You should see the amount of space taken up in pro photography mags with colour management bollocks.

 

[CitySickness]

We (me and me da) use the GretagMacbeth Eye-One Match. It's pretty darn good. For printer colour management he just uses the fuji driver for the paper. (Any printing I do is off his pc.)

You should see the amount of space taken up in pro photography mags with colour management bollocks.

GretagMacbeth Eye-One Match? Snappy title. I'll take a look-see. All my monitor calibration to date has been done manually, and our prepress settings come straight from the printers. It's been grand, but I'd be interested to see if Huey or GTMBEOM could make a better fist at accurate colour repro.

 

[Space]

I've done it manually before using one of them charts online somewhere. It has no comparison to the eye one match job. The sensor yoke also takes into account the ambient light in the room and what lights are facing the monitor which is pretty nifty although I'm not sure how much difference that makes to be honest.

 

[Goodbye]

The 24-inch takes a max of 4GB - always buy 3rd party RAM though, or Apple will charge you through the nose.

DONT buy 3rd party RAM. They charge you through the nose cos it works and dos'nt fuck up your machine. I've had bad experiances with bad RAM.