This imac just renewed my passion for editing!

Thanks Everyone!

one question, when you guys are editing. what screen brightness do you set your imac too.

I find that the right brightness for me is 5 squares, which is 31.5%. At 100% the screen is puts out nuclear quantities of radiation, enough to replace a litepanel for illumination.

Downs Photography wrote in post #13151457
How many of you guys edit on a 27'' iMac? It is amazing! photoshop even runs much better that I have a renewed passion to edit more.

Oh yea! Got one as a gift, now running CS5 in VMWare Fusion, as I had CS5 in a VM on the PC already.

Absolutely amazing. Incredible machine.

PC pron:

Kolor-Pikker wrote in post #13164205
I find that the right brightness for me is 5 squares, which is 31.5%. At 100% the screen is puts out nuclear quantities of radiation, enough to replace a litepanel for illumination.

I tried that but it's too dark. I stopped at 8 when I thought it's bright enough. Then again I got the 21.5 and that's with all the lights in the room turned off except the LED's from all the devices.

Let's see....

iMac 27", i7 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD - $2549.00

PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2 x 2TB HD in RAID for Data, 80GB SSD Boot, 30" LCD Monitor - $2440

Nah, no thanks .

Numenorean wrote in post #13275673
Let's see....

iMac 27", i7 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD - $2549.00

PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2 x 2TB HD in RAID for Data, 80GB SSD Boot, 30" LCD Monitor - $2440

Nah, no thanks .

Ability to run Mac OS X... Priceless.

Numenorean wrote in post #13275673
Let's see....

iMac 27", i7 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD - $2549.00

PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2 x 2TB HD in RAID for Data, 80GB SSD Boot, 30" LCD Monitor - $2440

Nah, no thanks .

LOL!

Yes you can build a PC cheaper.....but....

it is only a matter of time before you will regret it.

DavidG. wrote in post #13275676
Ability to run Mac OS X... worthless.

Fixed that for you.

Rolfe D. Wolfe wrote in post #13275684
LOL!

Yes you can build a PC cheaper.....but....

it is only a matter of time before you will regret it.

Cheaper for faster, more storage with backup and larger monitor.....never regretted that. Never had a reason to.

Numenorean wrote in post #13275673
Let's see....

iMac 27", i7 3.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 2TB HD - $2549.00

PC with i7 3.4GHz, 16GB RAM, 2 x 2TB HD in RAID for Data, 80GB SSD Boot, 30" LCD Monitor - $2440

Nah, no thanks .

I agree. I own a new Toshiba laptop for cost alone. Plus, I make my living under Windows.

I have a Mac mini which has out-lasted all other hardware I ever owned by a long shot. I have never rebooted it on purpose to clear an error. It has 1GB RAM and runs OSX smoothly.

My guess is the iMac with 8GB RAM will be around for about a decade.

Don't get me wrong, I love em both, Mac and PC but one of them lasts and is hassle free.

S.Horton wrote in post #13275710
Don't get me wrong, I love em both, Mac and PC but one of them lasts and is hassle free.

My PC's are hassle free and last, so you must be having problems with your Mac?

I have made a living on the bleeding edge of the PC for a very long time. Too long.

I could not make a living on the Mac, and I cannot get around the keyboard nearly fast enough to keep pace with my work, but I have been around since Dino DOS and the mainframe before it.

The only thing more stable than a Mac is a midrange or mainframe. The only thing as stable is Linux.

Like I said, I love em both, but I constantly overlook the warts from Microsoft.

What's truly odd is the convergence of the two visually and on the keyboard.

A few years back, a Windows person had trouble adapting to the Mac. Now, they are so very close, it is almost a Microsoft error in a way.

By the by, if you are not using VMWare definitely start. That is how I got my CS5 running on a Mac and on a new laptop without any hassle. It is also how I set up stable environments over time.


Ah, must say, Win7x64 is darn stable. Best since XP SP3 and Server 2003.

I still have PTSD from Vista. Back on topic, Spyder 3 Pro works perfectly on Lion Mac. You gotta calibrate if you're serious about editing.

I have that for the PC -- or maybe both? I'll dig up the box....