Profile for girl.guide.gone.bad - the age old question...

girl.guide.gone.bad aka Gilly is a 27.14 year old girl, has been a member since August 5, 2005, has scored 1,153 submissions, giving an average score of 2.57, helping 26 designs get printed.

the age old question...

PC or Mac?

I ask because, after 5 years of loyalty to my imac G5, it's become apparent it's time for an update (ie the price to fix it after it crapped itself a fortnight ago, equals roughly the price of a new entry level imac)

so the burning question, stick to mac's or go back to PC's, and if a mac, is it worth the extra 3 grand to get a mac pro?

I'm especially interested to hear of anyone who uses a mac pro/power mac - and whether they thought the investment was worth it, as apposed to just getting another imac which will inevitably need to be replaced in another 5 years...

colorfool on Mar 17 '09 at 6:56am

Nearly every pc (meaning personal computer) gets completely replaced after some amount of years. Upgrading is rare since the development in this area is so fast that you just have to exchange everything.

From an ecological standpoint I would still prefer having a separate screen because the screen is probably the one component that might be used the longest. I don't like the idea of throwing the screen away just because I need more processing power.

Mac vs. PC... I have been working with both for years (at home I am using both). I actually don't care much. The important thing is software and all that Adobe stuff, for example, exists for both.

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 7:04am

I very much agree with the idea of not wanting to throw out a perfectly good monitor because the guts of the thing are obsolete, that being said i'm completely sold on getting a mac screen, BUT in any case are the HD screens better than the new LED screens? I've read a few blogs where people have said colour matching is not as good on the new mac LED's... so are the HD's still the way to go (thats what i use at work with a PC hard drive) I'm inclined to keep with the mac at home given i'm using pc's at work just to keep efficient in using both - but the expense of going to the mac pro is just so huge in comparison.

taz-pie on Mar 17 '09 at 8:45am

hey i remember you!!

i was actually just gonna post a similar blog about non-mac desktop vs laptop options for designers. considering the Rand has crapped out against the Dollar, a laptop is $%&^$ expensive...

taz-pie on Mar 17 '09 at 8:47am

oh and to be more helpful, i was trained on mac but hae been working on pc for about 7 years now. gimmeh pc any day.

i love that fact that i can take this shit to pieces to fix without having to go through some hipster macjock.

tracerbullet on Mar 17 '09 at 8:48am

build yourself a PC. it's much easier than you'd think and you can customize it however you want. it's also a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a Mac. plus, PCs can be upgraged. like, whenever you want. right now, even. Mac's use of nearly completely proprietary hardware makes upgrading expensive and difficult.

tracerbullet on Mar 17 '09 at 8:49am

and everyone should give Linux a try instead of Windows or OSX. it doesn't hurt to try. you might just like it. there are plenty of distros like Ubuntu that can be run from a CD without doing a thing to your computer.

Bramish on Mar 17 '09 at 8:52am

Where the hell have YOU been?

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 3:02pm

i remember you lot too! threadless blogs really haven't changed at all have they, still the same crowd.

thanks for all the advice :) now i'm more unsure than ever j/k

bram! ive been working full time as a graphic designer in sydney... which has pretty much killed any creative juice i have for outside projects like threadless. But i plan on changing that, cos it seems a bit silly buying a new computer for myself and not actually using it for designing stuff. what's have you been up to? you thought up 'fractions speak louder than nerds'? genius... i'm so out of touch with threadless now!

Neon Samurai on Mar 17 '09 at 3:11pm

That Brian, he's a wise one.

tracerbullet on Mar 17 '09 at 3:13pm

what a champ

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:06pm

wise like a fox! ...or something...

Steve The Great on Mar 17 '09 at 6:25pm

you can only use a mac if you are an insufferable hipster graphic design student with billions of dollars to spend on a computer. you can only use a pc if you are a bespectacled IP type who can't function socially and can tell you what every single circuit on the computer can do for you. You can only use linux if you really really really really care what other comic nerds think about you.

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:32pm

well... that's a predicament then isn't it. I'm not any of those things!

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:33pm

haha steve... well now im in a predicament cos im not really any of those.

Steve The Great on Mar 17 '09 at 6:33pm

yeah, me neither. I use a mac

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:37pm

imac or mac pro? ...or mac book?

Steve The Great on Mar 17 '09 at 6:37pm

macbookpro

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:38pm

sexy :p

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:39pm

sexy :p

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 6:44pm

twice even

Steve The Great on Mar 17 '09 at 6:45pm

hehe

thank you very much. It does what it needs to do.

shirtflirt on Mar 17 '09 at 6:45pm

tracer, noone cares about your stupid ass LINUS crap

mac pro is seriously one of the most beastly computers going.

if you can swing it get it.

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 7:08pm

thats the burning question... is it worth the $6000 they're asking for the base model 8 core...

does anybody know about the LED monitors and whether they're better than the cinema displays?

Steve The Great on Mar 17 '09 at 7:10pm

I think the general feeling about Apple's cinema displays is that they're relatively old tech and overpriced. you can get a better monitor elsewhere. I have no idea what that would be.

NomadSlim on Mar 17 '09 at 7:12pm

I've been looking at macbooks today, but there are so many reviews bitching about the glass screen protector having insane amounts of glare... I shall continue my investigation.

Also... if you are making pixar animations the mac pro will probably be sufficient. If not, I'm guessing you don't need that superhero.

shirtflirt on Mar 17 '09 at 7:15pm

6000 bucks? whoa

8 core's pretty heavy duty

do you need 8 processor's?

girl.guide.gone.bad on Mar 17 '09 at 8:32pm

6000 aussie dollars roughly. probably not haha but im thinking this will be an investment that will go the distance, something i can build on... its not the fact that i need the 8 core, its that the previous model can only be updated so far, and then its obsolete. i hate technology - it forces you to buy the latest and greatest. :P

but at least when im out of a job cos we're in recession ill have a beast of a machine to flog...

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