Iv moved away from windows to Ubuntu but im soon looking at getting a new computer and iv been thinking about getting a Mac book pro or a iMac. Iv never had a mac before, only played around for a few minutes. I want it for photo, movie and sound editing, which i heard its good for but also, webdesign/coding, and managing websites and servers. Do you think its worth the money? or just buy a really good desktop and run windows 7 or ubuntu? Please let me know your opinion but also want to here from people that have made the switch recently..
The last Mac I owned was an SE Buy a decent desktop, run Windows 7 + VirtualBox, and run OSX whenever you need to. You'll get over any desire to own a Mac pretty quickly. ---
Nice Set up, I was thinking about spending between $2000AUD to $3000AUD on a custom PC But Than i thought about a mac and how it compares today Rather than a few years ago.
Unless you desperately need to use an application that can't run on anything else, it doesn't matter if you're running Windows, OSX, Linux, or anything else. And even then, with a decent system you can run just about any OS/application using virtualization. Having a box that says Mac on it won't make you a better designer, coder, or anything else. --- Nobody cares (*especially your clients) what equipment you use, whatever comes out the pipe at the other end is all that matters. If you want a Mac, just buy one
I've used Ubuntu before. I likely won't go back. But I might. I will likely never switch to using Macs. Not me personally, anyway.