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Comment by James Hill on April 14, 2010 at 12:22am

Thanks for the comment. It helped, a lot. I think I have come up with a solution. Coming soon, in another blog post.

Comment by Wandering I on April 13, 2010 at 8:33pm

I guess the first question is have you used a mac before? Coming from my experience, windows users who migrate to mac generally have some sort of warped reality that its gonna be astronomically different, when it reality its not. The software is different yes, but to me its not worth the premium price tag that comes along with the standard hardware. I've been a windows user for many years and bought a mac a year ago so I could learn the software and do tech support for my mac clients. Truth be told, Aside from having a couple cool options, I still went back to windows because of just the vast amount of software available for it.

However, if you've already used a mac and find it more to your liking than a windows box, heres what I would suggest. RAM on a mac is supplementary in my opinion. OSX utilizes ram differently than a windows machine does. So my 4gb of ram on my windows machine in most cases would be overkill for my mac. However since your going to using adobe software, go with at least 4gb, but 8gb won't give you a noticeably huge improvement. Fact is that unless your running more than 4 or 5 apps at the same time, an osx machine will rarely require more than 4gb. However, that changes if your going to be editing HD video for example in which case the more ram the better. CPU wise, I would say go for the faster cpu now. Reason I say so is because unlike windows box's, upgrading a mac cpu (even though there intel chips) is a pain in the ass. Hope this helps.