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Hi all,
I have always been a huge fan of all things Apple and if I had my way I'd have a Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Time Capsule...you get the picture.
Anyway, I'm in the process of setting up a Web Development business with my fiance and we are looking for some advice regarding computer systems. I subscribe to a Web Development magazine and it is apparent that majority of Web Design agencies use Macs and as fans of Macs ourselves, that'd be our preference. However, it's the cost that's an issue.
The set up we were looking at for now would be 2 desktop machines and 1 laptop for 'on-site work' and as we currently have pretty reasonable spec machines at home (Intel Q6600's, 4GB Ram, etc) we don't want anything slower than these for work. So what options do we have?
On the Mac side, we have been looking at either the Mac Mini or the iMac's. Would the current Mac Mini's be slower than what we have at home or would OSX architecture make them perform better? With the iMac's, we would be looking at the 27" model but at the moment we could only afford one of these.
On the PC side, we could get a pretty good system (2.8GHz Core i7, 6GB DDR3, 2 x 1TB Hard Drives, decent Antec case, etc) for £745 but would be using the same cheapish monitors that we've already got a low end Samsung 23" and a low end Dell 24") so that wouldn't be perfectly ideal either, but with this price we could afford 2 systems straight away.
Can anyone offer advice? What setup would you go for?
I have always been a huge fan of all things Apple and if I had my way I'd have a Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Time Capsule...you get the picture.
Anyway, I'm in the process of setting up a Web Development business with my fiance and we are looking for some advice regarding computer systems. I subscribe to a Web Development magazine and it is apparent that majority of Web Design agencies use Macs and as fans of Macs ourselves, that'd be our preference. However, it's the cost that's an issue.
The set up we were looking at for now would be 2 desktop machines and 1 laptop for 'on-site work' and as we currently have pretty reasonable spec machines at home (Intel Q6600's, 4GB Ram, etc) we don't want anything slower than these for work. So what options do we have?
On the Mac side, we have been looking at either the Mac Mini or the iMac's. Would the current Mac Mini's be slower than what we have at home or would OSX architecture make them perform better? With the iMac's, we would be looking at the 27" model but at the moment we could only afford one of these.
On the PC side, we could get a pretty good system (2.8GHz Core i7, 6GB DDR3, 2 x 1TB Hard Drives, decent Antec case, etc) for £745 but would be using the same cheapish monitors that we've already got a low end Samsung 23" and a low end Dell 24") so that wouldn't be perfectly ideal either, but with this price we could afford 2 systems straight away.
Can anyone offer advice? What setup would you go for?