it/computer people

[darkdezigns]

The only item I dont see mentioned is a monitor, with photography the monitor is crucial, a lot of flat screens/lcd are impossible to calibrate properly for PS work regardless what they say on the tin, I still use a crt, and will till it blows because of this, Samsung have a couple of syncmaster ones I've seen recommended and also apple, these are around the £300 mark, under £200 and they just don't cut it. Pro screen's are around 1300 quid by the way, if you want to get serious. H

yup its a good point,but i have a mate who builds computers on the side,he is an it teacher,he is gonna do some upgrades to this,then ill sell it on to fund a new monitor,we upgraded this to 1.8ghz yesterday with 1mb ram and 80gd hd,ps at the mo i have a 21 inch formac pro nitron

[JUDWAK]

dont you lot get the add mag
dual core running at 5 gig
2 gig of grafics
2x 300 gig hd
1 gig of ram
dvd rewriter
flat screen /speaker keybord and mouse all in black
300 quid
bargin
ohh it did not work or so it was said
all it was
sata dont like windows xp (xp needs help to know what sata is)and it kept loseing the hard drives and cd
thats my type of bargin
fixed it in 30 mins used it ever since
i

[Sancho]

I'am considering a new laptop, has any body got any views with Mac against pc ?

In what regard? I believe Sancho uses a Mac, so it may be worthwhile brainpicking him.

Someone called? I do indeed use a Mac. Two in fact, an old iBook in the living room and a new iMac in the 'office'/junk storage room.

I would never ever use a PC again. PCs are more customisable, potentially more powerful, have a broader range of software and are cheaper to buy. But Macs work like toasters. You don't get conflicts, you don't get blue screens, you don't get random crashes, you don't even get viruses (most of the time). You sit down, turn it on and do whatever you like.

For advanced users, PC every time. For someone who wants to go on the internet, listen to music, store photos, play around with graphics and do the odd bit of work, it has to be a Mac.

And, yes, I have built, configured and repaired many PCs in my time and know what they're capable of. I suppose it's a bit like comparing a TVR to a Porsche. On measures of performance, the TVR is better and cheaper, but the Porsche looks good, works properly and doesn't break down all the time

All in my very (as we all know) humble opinion of course.

[RodLeach]

The only item I dont see mentioned is a monitor, with photography the monitor is crucial, a lot of flat screens/lcd are impossible to calibrate properly for PS work regardless what they say on the tin, I still use a crt, and will till it blows because of this, Samsung have a couple of syncmaster ones I've seen recommended and also apple, these are around the £300 mark, under £200 and they just don't cut it. Pro screen's are around 1300 quid by the way, if you want to get serious. H

True..

I've got a SyncMaster screen with 2ms response time and 20000:1 contrast ratio.. which is crazy!

Frankly... best screen ive ever used.. Was £300 most places on the internet at the time... nearly £400 in PC world...

Managed to pick it up for £99 because the box it came in had light damage..

Someone opened it.. then resealed it with brown tape!

BARGAIN!!!!

[darkdezigns]

dont you lot get the add mag
dual core running at 5 gig
2 gig of grafics
2x 300 gig hd
1 gig of ram
dvd rewriter
flat screen /speaker keybord and mouse all in black
300 quid
bargin
ohh it did not work or so it was said
all it was
sata dont like windows xp (xp needs help to know what sata is)and it kept loseing the hard drives and cd
thats my type of bargin
fixed it in 30 mins used it ever since
i

that aint bad 118,but new one will cost around that price,see the spec above

[JUDWAK]

dont you lot get the add mag
dual core running at 5 gig
2 gig of grafics
2x 300 gig hd
1 gig of ram
dvd rewriter
flat screen /speaker keybord and mouse all in black
300 quid
bargin
ohh it did not work or so it was said
all it was
sata dont like windows xp (xp needs help to know what sata is)and it kept loseing the hard drives and cd
thats my type of bargin
fixed it in 30 mins used it ever since
i

eye i had no sooner posted that
the next day all pc problems started again
its 118 jinks me