Mac opinion pole

[Stephen Dolbee]

Later this year (after snow leopard) I plan on making the switch to Apple. I have not read anything that would discourage me from doing so except under "problems with video display on a new alum. Imac", on this forum. This pole is not meant to be a PC vs. Mac debate. I am just curious how satisfied Mac owners are with their product-especially while using Archicad. Our firm does mainly single family/residential with very little rendering. Imac spec's should be more than adequate to meet our needs-that's what I really want. Thanks.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

its pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if the latest crop of Apple Hardware isn't a little bit futureproofed - that is to say that it anticipates Snow Leopard and provides a bit of infrasructure that will meow a little bit harder when 10.6 ships.

[Stephen Dolbee]

Chazz wrote:
If you want a Mac, just get it now and install Snow Leopard whenever it comes out.

I guess I did imply I was waiting for Snow Leopard. Actually, I have some bills to pay off before another purchase. Hopefully, that will be later this fall.

[owen]

Yes OpenCL should make things very interesting indeed .. i wonder what impact GPU's will have on total system performance. Cinebench benchmarks have the 2009 Mac Pro's 2-3x (or more) in front of the 2009 iMacs, however i have seen benchmarks which put the iMacs quite close to 2009 Mac Pro's in gaming tests (which are very GPU dependent).

Still i think it is a shame there is no lower-end Quad Core 'desktop' processor option for the iMac to bridge the huge gap to a Mac Pro. At the moment it is really not much more than a deskbound Macbook Pro (albeit with a beautiful 24" screen)