Should I get a Mac or PC?

Ok well let me explain so you guys get an idea. I need a new computer for Animation and my Academics. I want to order a 20" Mac along with a $240 Adobe Animation program. Now here is the problem. The Macs are excellent in quality and creativity performance, but this is a computer that I will have for the next 4-5 years and on ANY day of those five years, if I crave to play a game, I dont really have any options. I dont play alot, but sometimes I like to play on an hour break to relieve myself from stress but all the games I play on PC, are not available on Mac. But I also need a good computer to animate. I built a custom PC on cyberpowerpc.com and it cost me $1113 (including vista 64 bit) and its a garantee that it would run Crysis (example) on Ultra High. I could probably be cheaper in the end. But I dont know if the PC has that creativity/artistic aspect as a Mac has, but the Mac doesnt live up to the gaming world's performance and high end needs. what should I do? I wish there was a Pac that could do more. Someone should create Pacs

Get a PC. Theyre cheaper and more capable.

Macs have their purposes, but its just pointless imo getting one unless you've been using one for years.

And forgive my ignorance, but what makes a mac better for multimedia? Is the software Mac-exclusive or something? Or is it just something that for some weird reason macs have a good reputation regarding. I know a lot of people that have two computers, one mac and one PC, simply because they prefer doing video work on macs.

ok so since we have it out of the way. A $240 (originally $899) animation program would run smoothly and perfectly on a windows pc if I order it from Apple.com?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS999LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA2NQ&mco=MTkzOTE2MA

I never heard of "Adobe Animation" neither for windows or mac

There is Adobe Flash which is used for animation,but you dont need mac to work in it

I have made lot animations with Flash,and im using windows.

ok so since we have it out of the way. A $240 (originally $899) animation program would run smoothly and perfectly on a windows pc if I order it from Apple.com?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS999LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA2NQ&mco=MTkzOTE2MA

Kamekazi_69

sure it will, and now tell me how you get this thing for only 240$ since it cost 1799$ O.o

Just get a Mac with decent specs so you can use bootcamp to install Windows on it and play some of the more-modern games. It's what I did with my MacBook Pro at any rate.

(nice to see someone else taking an interest in the Animation field. If your experience it to be anything like mine, expect a *huge* amount of your free time to be consumed by drawing.....drawing......and drawing some more as you re-do an animated sequence for the third time)

PACs exist-they are called political action committes :D.

But, seriously, get a PC. Unless you want to do serious video and photo editing, the PC is much better. And, if you want to do ANY gaming, get the PC.

Build a "PC" known to work with OSX, best of both worlds. Captain__Tripps

That's illegal as far as the Apple terms of service are concerned, and I doubt he wants to tread that territory as a student.

I know for a fact that that particular software bundle, CS4, will run better on 64-bit Windows computers with nVidia GPUs. There was an announcement a few months back that stated that CS4 is optimized to take advantage of nVidia GPUs to help with processing, but only on the PC version of the software.crucifine

And only the minority run Windows in 64-bit to begin with, where-as a fair amount of OSX Leopard users are already running 64-bit. It shouldn't make much of a difference anyways.

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ok so since we have it out of the way. A $240 (originally $899) animation program would run smoothly and perfectly on a windows pc if I order it from Apple.com?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS999LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA2NQ&mco=MTkzOTE2MA

Enosh88

sure it will, and now tell me how you get this thing for only 240$ since it cost 1799$ O.o

Adobe has a lot of deals set up with college/uni campuses to get more sales out of students rather than having them all in a state where they just pirate the thing instead. I can get the same package at my college as well for 85% off the full price.

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ok so since we have it out of the way. A $240 (originally $899) animation program would run smoothly and perfectly on a windows pc if I order it from Apple.com?

http://store.apple.com/us/product/TS999LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA2NQ&mco=MTkzOTE2MA

Enosh88

sure it will, and now tell me how you get this thing for only 240$ since it cost 1799$ O.o

The same software suite is available for Windows...

Buy a PC, or rather buy parts and build one.

[QUOTE="crucifine"]I know for a fact that that particular software bundle, CS4, will run better on 64-bit Windows computers with nVidia GPUs. There was an announcement a few months back that stated that CS4 is optimized to take advantage of nVidia GPUs to help with processing, but only on the PC version of the software.Genexi2

And only the minority run Windows in 64-bit to begin with, where-as a fair amount of OSX Leopard users are already running 64-bit. It shouldn't make much of a difference anyways.

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/03/adobe-photoshop-cs4-to-be-64-bit-for-windows-32-bit-for-mac/

Essentially it'll be 8-12% faster for typical use, but if you have enough RAM and are working with really big photos, it'll run almost 10 times faster. It's actually not that they're using Vista/XP 64, it's that the 64-bit version of CS4 is PC-only.

[QUOTE="Captain__Tripps"]Build a "PC" known to work with OSX, best of both worlds. Genexi2

That's illegal as far as the Apple terms of service are concerned, and I doubt he wants to tread that territory as a student.

Genexi2

Well, maybe. I read that it is "Apple labled" hardware that is required... even so, nobody is going to catch you, and nothing is going to happen. A unforceable ToS as far as im concerned. Still, most people don't want to bother with this. I think i'd be funny if MS did the same thing... I mean Apple is making money off Windows so why not... lol

There are extremely few animation software that is not avaliable on PC. And PC version of Photoshop CS4 has 64bit when Mac doesn't. Here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/faq/?promoid=DRHXB

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