OK, but...
OK, sure...if all you're talking about is a couple of Photoshop filters here and there, then sure, the difference between an iMac and the G4 isn't terribly important. Of course, if you are playing games, you'll detect a night-and-day difference between the dated ATI board in the iMac and the NVIDIA cards in G4s.
But the bigger issue for the graphic design people is monitor size. If you have a great computer to work on at school/work, then sure, you can do most of your work there. If not, you will be extraordinarily irritated with that 15" CRT that comes with the iMac. People say the iMac needs an LCD screen; I say that we would have been better off with the rumors that have been around for eons having to do with the iMac getting a bigger (17") screen....and, of course, if the display dies on your iMac, you are SOL as one post earlier suggested.
The work I do involves lots of programming with lots of iterations....I literally leave computers running for hours and come back to them. For me, being able to shave a couple *hours* off of the processing time is very, very nice -- and worth the extra money.
In the grand scheme of things, if you think about it, you'll spend hundreds of hours on your computer (if not thousands)....take the amount extra you'll be spending, and divide it by 500, a conservative estimate of how many hours you'll spend at your Mac, it's a pretty tiny ratio.....
OK, sure...if all you're talking about is a couple of Photoshop filters here and there, then sure, the difference between an iMac and the G4 isn't terribly important. Of course, if you are playing games, you'll detect a night-and-day difference between the dated ATI board in the iMac and the NVIDIA cards in G4s.
But the bigger issue for the graphic design people is monitor size. If you have a great computer to work on at school/work, then sure, you can do most of your work there. If not, you will be extraordinarily irritated with that 15" CRT that comes with the iMac. People say the iMac needs an LCD screen; I say that we would have been better off with the rumors that have been around for eons having to do with the iMac getting a bigger (17") screen....and, of course, if the display dies on your iMac, you are SOL as one post earlier suggested.
The work I do involves lots of programming with lots of iterations....I literally leave computers running for hours and come back to them. For me, being able to shave a couple *hours* off of the processing time is very, very nice -- and worth the extra money.
In the grand scheme of things, if you think about it, you'll spend hundreds of hours on your computer (if not thousands)....take the amount extra you'll be spending, and divide it by 500, a conservative estimate of how many hours you'll spend at your Mac, it's a pretty tiny ratio.....
