Bob,
While I am pleased to hear that you're considering moving over to the
Mac side, and while I think you'll be very happy with the Mac Pro
(I have a friend who has that model, and it is smokin' fast), I would
recommend that you NOT get the 23" Apple Cinema Display for
two principal reasons...
1) You cannot adjust contrast or the R/G/B values on the Apple Cinema
Displays,only brightness, which will affect how well you can adjust
the monitor for
profiling with a hardware colorimeter
2) The 23" ACDs are reknown for having a notable pink cast
to them, rather than a true white. There is extensive posting
to this effect on the net.
I would recommend getting a comparable Samsung or believe
it or not, a Dell. Dell uses the same Phillips panels that Apple
does, but
does allow you to adjust R/G/B and contrast.
If you want to spend more money and get a very good LCD, I recommend
an Eizo ColorEdge monitor. I use a 21.5" Samsung 215TW which I paid
$499, and it profiled up beautifully.
Cheers,
Stephen
>
> From: "Bob Whitmire" <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Visit to the Apple Store (OT mostly)
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 12:50:35 -0500
>
>
> Ah, well, I spent my entire Wednesday driving to Salem, NH, and
> back to get
> an up close and personal look at the Apple line of computers. Goody
> for me,
> Apple had loaded CS2 on almost all of the demo machines, and so I
> got to
> bounce back and forth between the various iMacs and Pro Macs,
> playing with
> actual CS2 images and watching how the systems work.
>
> Unfortunately, Apple chooses to only stock the basic machines in
> its stores.
> Upgrades would be ordered through the online facility. I watched
> about seven
> thousand people buy iPods, and get them in all sorts of custom
> configurations by using safari and a sales rep. Also unfortunately,
> the
> sales rep I spoke with was mostly an iPod guy. I think I knew more
> about the
> internal capabilities of the machines for photo editing than he
> did. Maybe I
> shouldn't have been surprised. <g>
>
> I went in figuring that if I decided on Apple, it would be in one
> of three
> different flavors: 20" iMac with an additional cheapo monitor for
> pallets; a
> 24" iMac with 3GB ram and the faster processor; or a Mac Pro with
> the 2.66
> gig processors and 2 GB ram to start with. After messing around
> with all
> three machines, I decided the one I liked best by a rather large
> margin was
> the Mac Pro with a 23" Apple Cinema Display. (Just once in my life
> I'd like
> to do a hands-on test and come out liking an option other than the
> most
> expensive!)
>
> The Mac Pro I used had the 2.66 gig processors, but only 1 gig of
> RAM. It
> still smoked CS2 pretty good. I found some fairly large image files
> and
> resized them and smart sharpened them and such to get an idea of
> how much I
> could clog the machine up. Smart Sharpen sometimes took a few
> seconds to run
> on a 16x20 image, but nothing like the antique Pentium 4 I'm
> running now.
>
> Sigh. So it looks like a Mac Pro, if I can muster the courage to
> drop that
> kind of cash. Which may mean putting off a system switch away from
> Olympus
> for a while, which will in turn mean I can see what the so-called new
> E-Thingy actually is before I drop another wad of cash. Arrrggggg! And
> wouldn't it make more sense to get the best imaging system I can
> get and
> make do computerwise than the other way around? Arrgggggg!
>
> Ain't life a bowl of freaking cherries!
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