Mac vs PC for photography (AKA Silly money vs bargain)

F4810 said:
Sorry one more question - if he goes iMac can you overclock them and if so whats the ideal processor (looking at cost too) to do this?
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you cant overclock a MAC at all as fare as i am aware its basicly you got what
you purchased and if its not to your liking then tough.
 
1. The Mac will hold its value
2. You can look at "them" websites and not catch a virus
3. Colour calibration on a Mac is far better than a PC
 
Mac Pros have Xeon CPUs and ECC RAM so they're not especially overpriced for what they are. The question is why you'd want to spend on Xeon CPUs and ECC RAM in the first place.
 
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F4810 said:
Thanks for all your adivce. As a few of you suggested its his clients that are important and will problably like the Macs more and feel more at home rather than use a PC. He has a warehouse with a photography studio when they can come and shoot pictures and then work on them too.

He needs EIZOs or prof grade monitors for them to use and also for his own use. He wants them so that they can be calibrated so that they can match the printer or something like that. What you see on screen is what you get on print I think.
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Well any screen can be calibrated, a Dell s-ips screen and a calibraton tool would offer 99% of the quality for a fraction of the cost.
 
Raikiri said:
No you can't, unless you really sacrifice certain areas like using a bargain basement PSU or case. Then you might save £100 or so, whilst looking a lot worse. The 27" iMac really is a good deal, even if some poeple choose not to see that.

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Same base spec, used good but cheapish components. As nice as the Lian Li it it won't look as good as the iMac. It's about £9 less than the iMac.
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doesn't work like that.

the iMac display is terrible. there are zero calibration, horribly saturated and it's got LED backlight. same IPS panel doesn't mean same image quality.

the Dell U2711 however, is pre-calibrated, perfect colour in calibrated mode, CCFL backlight that provides 100% colour spectrum.

a photo professional should NEVER buy Apple display, EIZO should be their choice. Dell and NEC are cheaper alternative.


just throwing it out there:
Mac pro case + PC hardware + proper EIZO monitor + hackintosh?
looks like a Mac, uses like a Mac, with perfect professional colours.
 
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there is currently no perfect white LED, whereas CCFL have matured and offers perfect white, as far as sRGB and Adobe RGB colour profile are concerned.

with LED, you either get a yellowish screen or a bluish screen. there is currently no LED monitor that offers as good colour range as CCFL. that's why although Apple 27 inch and Dell U2711 use the same IPS panel, the Dell offers more accurate and wider colour range.


actually, RGB LED backlight will offer best of both world: wide colour range, and thertically lower power consumption. but none of Apple display uses it, Apple displays only use single coloured LED, fake white LEDs.
 
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hybrid572 said:
Macs *are* superior for heavy-duty graphical design work, and I should imagine it's slightly more user-friendly for photographers, but a £2k Mac Pro and 2 EIZOs...

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but if you spend the same money on a PC as you would on a mac you get a much faster machine?
 
I will agree the mac is better for the non techie and probably easier to use..

a lot of people spend 2k on a mac then go ahhh, yes this is much better than my PC (forgetting the PC was only 700 and it is now 5 years old) (so 20" monitor, 512mb ram, p4d 3ghz PC compared to a 27" 8gb, quad mac)
 
This is easy:

Go on the bay of e, find a 2009 Mac Pro for 20% off new.

Find it with Warranty, add applecare off ebay.

Fit it with 6/12Gb of ram for £150/£280.

Buy a U2711 or the HZ27Wb.

I used to do the whole self build thing and two years ago I couldn't be bothered anymore.

Bought a Mac Pro. It's perfect.

Just because it's more expensive does NOT mean it is NOT worth the money.
 
wuyanxu said:
there is currently no perfect white LED, whereas CCFL have matured and offers perfect white, as far as sRGB and Adobe RGB colour profile are concerned.

with LED, you either get a yellowish screen or a bluish screen. there is currently no LED monitor that offers as good colour range as CCFL. that's why although Apple 27 inch and Dell U2711 use the same IPS panel, the Dell offers more accurate and wider colour range.


actually, RGB LED backlight will offer best of both world: wide colour range, and thertically lower power consumption. but none of Apple display uses it, Apple displays only use single coloured LED, fake white LEDs.
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Are there any tests or reviews that show that the Dell outperforms the iMac display? I've always thought that LED are better is terms of both lifespan and power consumption but as far as how white they are, I'm not really sure how they compare. Are you saying a CCFL will also be bang on 6000k while an LED will always be slightly off?

RGB LED backlights do sound like the way forward, I've heard that maybe 200lm/W could be doable also which is amazingly efficient... Are there any current monitors that o not use fake white LED's or even RGB LED's? I'm after a monitor myself but I prefer LED but I also want decent quality... In fact I've used the 27" iMac myself, and the screen does seem good to me, I find it hard to see how it could be better really...
 
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