hello all,
Right, that's a big discussion but i will make my best to keep it the shortest!
Firstly i would like to say that i am willing to hear from everyone who works with cad, solid works, sketch-up, rendering and related.
My sister is studying architecture and she has been asking me what do i think in regards of buying a mac. I tried suggesting everything else, even setting her a killer WC desktop for the budget she would spend in a Mac. However, she says it has to be a notebook, so she can be mobile with her projects, fair enough.
The point is, atm she has a notebook (dell) which is almost the same hardware setup then a macbook pro, very feel hardware are different. Therefore i told her that atm it would be rather silly to sell her laptop for ~420GBP/ 690USD when a very very similar macbookpro cost around 1000GBP. She doesn't understand much about pcs, but i think she is quite fascinated from a friend´s mac, mostly for the video/image editing softwares.
...Now its time to discuss!
From what i know about, she wouldn't benefit much from buying a mac, when what she really needs its a laptop which is able to process faster for the application she will need the most, like the ones mentioned on the beginning. Therefore i believe she could rather save up a little and actually focus on something else then a mac.
Again, i think that she should focus on a laptop that could have an i7 processor alongside a nvidia gtx260 1gb graphic processor, or perhaps on another quad-core that has a Nvidia Quadro gpu, and not a macbook, because her laptop has the same nvidia 9400M gpu, so i dont think it would be a smart move to go for a mac. What do you guys think?
Another very important point is a SSD. Regardless gpu power capability, a good 120/128 SSD will definitely impact on any graphical application, and i say that because i do use Sketch-up a lot, and i had the opportunity of using it on the same setup but with a SSD, and the difference was incredibly huge, it was much faster!
In regards to OS, i am sure Linux is the best, i use linux a lot and its not just for the fact that it is a Open-source, but the computer seems to perform way better then on windows. I have never had a mac pc, i have once made a so called "hackintosh" and i indeed liked the OS as much as the apps and features, but thats different from having a real mac.
Well...i hope you can follow my thoughts and hopefully help me out with this dilemma, so we can all come to a conclusion or at least clarify this thoughts better!
Thanks for time, :hands:
Right, that's a big discussion but i will make my best to keep it the shortest!
Firstly i would like to say that i am willing to hear from everyone who works with cad, solid works, sketch-up, rendering and related.
My sister is studying architecture and she has been asking me what do i think in regards of buying a mac. I tried suggesting everything else, even setting her a killer WC desktop for the budget she would spend in a Mac. However, she says it has to be a notebook, so she can be mobile with her projects, fair enough.
The point is, atm she has a notebook (dell) which is almost the same hardware setup then a macbook pro, very feel hardware are different. Therefore i told her that atm it would be rather silly to sell her laptop for ~420GBP/ 690USD when a very very similar macbookpro cost around 1000GBP. She doesn't understand much about pcs, but i think she is quite fascinated from a friend´s mac, mostly for the video/image editing softwares.
...Now its time to discuss!
From what i know about, she wouldn't benefit much from buying a mac, when what she really needs its a laptop which is able to process faster for the application she will need the most, like the ones mentioned on the beginning. Therefore i believe she could rather save up a little and actually focus on something else then a mac.
Again, i think that she should focus on a laptop that could have an i7 processor alongside a nvidia gtx260 1gb graphic processor, or perhaps on another quad-core that has a Nvidia Quadro gpu, and not a macbook, because her laptop has the same nvidia 9400M gpu, so i dont think it would be a smart move to go for a mac. What do you guys think?
Another very important point is a SSD. Regardless gpu power capability, a good 120/128 SSD will definitely impact on any graphical application, and i say that because i do use Sketch-up a lot, and i had the opportunity of using it on the same setup but with a SSD, and the difference was incredibly huge, it was much faster!
In regards to OS, i am sure Linux is the best, i use linux a lot and its not just for the fact that it is a Open-source, but the computer seems to perform way better then on windows. I have never had a mac pc, i have once made a so called "hackintosh" and i indeed liked the OS as much as the apps and features, but thats different from having a real mac.
Well...i hope you can follow my thoughts and hopefully help me out with this dilemma, so we can all come to a conclusion or at least clarify this thoughts better!
Thanks for time, :hands:
