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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
oh, no worries, all adobe's products are available for mac. but... you have to drop a LOT of dosh on them, after already shelling out for very pricey hardware.
i would be very happy to have a mac, but they're far too expensive for me, especially since i would also have to buy the adobe suite for mac, and that costs a FORTUNE. plus it's possible (although i haven't checked) that there is some software i use which doesn't have a mac equivalent, although now i imagine that's much less likely. i always have custom-built pcs, and i can switch out single components as necessary so i almost never buy a whole new machine at once. i did last year and it cost me about 600€, for a really good machine, fast proc, lots of ram, huge hd... for an equivalent from mac i would have had to spend at least twice that, or more.
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If you have big honkin' hardware, virtualization is a good option (lots of RAM = bonus). You basically have two real-world choices: VMware, which (at least for the superior workstation variant) costs money; and VirtualBox, which is open-source and/or freebies. From personal experience both handle Windows 7 just fine; VMware even runs the Aero eyecandy on 7/Vista now. I've been meaning to do a comparison of these on my site
http://windowsanonymous.org but VBox is updated farily often, and if it's at a disadvantage this week it probably won't be next week. To sum up,
VMware: Costs money, a little more advanced
VirtualBox: Free, good for most purposes.
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
macs are fairly standard for designers, but i'm a webdesigner, so i write code as well. in webdesign i'd say it's a more even split, there are lots of webdesigners who work on pcs, if only for easier compability with their developpers, who are almost all on pcs.  |
Myth-busting time: Mac innards are commodity pieces; you can buy every internal part of a Mac at a computer supply place. There's no magic involved. It's all Intel/NVidia now.