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Old 16th Aug 2008, 15:09
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Farrell
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I need to buy a new desktop.
I have a Macbook and an iPhone - so am Mac literate at this stage, but would appreciate your views on it.

Budget is unlimited however, I am not one to spend unnecessarily on something.

I will be using Powerpoint and Abode CS3 with a lot of activity on Flash and Dreamweaver for creating CBT packages for students. There will also be a ton of video work using mostly Final Draft.

I will need a MASSIVE screen where I can lay out multiple windows without having to constantly resize them. My workflows can be a bit haphazard at times and I have a tendency to jump back two or three steps in a design process to re-jig things before I am happy.

The new machine will be a Mac. There is not a snowball's chance in hell of it being a PC. It will need to be fast and have first rate graphics quality.

The decision that I am faced with is:
Should I go for the 24" iMac stuffed to the rivets with RAM and brain power?
Or, go for a Mac Pro with a third-party screen that is larger (not sure how big they go in design houses but the screen size is an important concern).

I like this screen: NEC Display Solutions MultiSync LCD3090WQXi-BK

Thoughts please.

Last edited by Farrell; 16th Aug 2008 at 15:23.
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