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New Desktop Computer What Do I Need?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7888490" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>I’ve used PC’s since Windows 3.1 For WorkGroups and up to W7, and still do occasionally on my laptops. Mac since late 2011.</p><p>Never had an issue with programs/apps not working on a Mac.</p><p>I’ve also been involved with a few purchases of cheap but intensively used desktop PC’s for someone else’s business over the years and never felt the need to customise them. These machines were mostly for use on retail counters for parts management, email, and so on and also ran versions of Ibcos Gold dealer management software. None of these are particularly demanding computer tasks but did require some machines to run 24 hours a day. Granted Ibcos only ran on Windows, but that’s all those cheap desktops ever did. Year in year out. No speakers fitted, just monitors.</p><p></p><p>The specification of computer needed depends very much on the intended application. Most desktops are way over-specced for general office plodding along except perhaps for internal data storage unless connected to a good server. Yes, £500-600 will easily buy a more than adequate machine for the average Joe and small business. Some people want and need a heck of a lot higher performance machines though, in terms of speed, multitasking, RAM, graphics, speakers and connectivity. Each to their own and there is a machine available off the shelf or available to be customised to suit everybody, nearly.</p><p></p><p>In over ten years of using a Mac I’ve only got one app annoyance, not quite a failure to use an app. Since I use Apple Photos and other apps for editing photos, the minor issue is that Nik Suite from DXO does not seamlessly plug-in to Photos. It does to Adobe Creative Cloud or the stand-alone Photoshop for which I have no intension of having. I can access any of the Nik products from Photos but its more of a faff than it needs to be in my opinion.</p><p>The main issue with Mac is surely its initial purchase price. However it has a very comprehensive set of professional quality apps, including an office suite, that are built-in as standard. The initial price is certainly enough to put a certain demographic off from buying the product, which is fair enough. I don’t think, for instance, that I would buy Macs for employees to use at work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7888490, member: 718"] I’ve used PC’s since Windows 3.1 For WorkGroups and up to W7, and still do occasionally on my laptops. Mac since late 2011. Never had an issue with programs/apps not working on a Mac. I’ve also been involved with a few purchases of cheap but intensively used desktop PC’s for someone else’s business over the years and never felt the need to customise them. These machines were mostly for use on retail counters for parts management, email, and so on and also ran versions of Ibcos Gold dealer management software. None of these are particularly demanding computer tasks but did require some machines to run 24 hours a day. Granted Ibcos only ran on Windows, but that’s all those cheap desktops ever did. Year in year out. No speakers fitted, just monitors. The specification of computer needed depends very much on the intended application. Most desktops are way over-specced for general office plodding along except perhaps for internal data storage unless connected to a good server. Yes, £500-600 will easily buy a more than adequate machine for the average Joe and small business. Some people want and need a heck of a lot higher performance machines though, in terms of speed, multitasking, RAM, graphics, speakers and connectivity. Each to their own and there is a machine available off the shelf or available to be customised to suit everybody, nearly. In over ten years of using a Mac I’ve only got one app annoyance, not quite a failure to use an app. Since I use Apple Photos and other apps for editing photos, the minor issue is that Nik Suite from DXO does not seamlessly plug-in to Photos. It does to Adobe Creative Cloud or the stand-alone Photoshop for which I have no intension of having. I can access any of the Nik products from Photos but its more of a faff than it needs to be in my opinion. The main issue with Mac is surely its initial purchase price. However it has a very comprehensive set of professional quality apps, including an office suite, that are built-in as standard. The initial price is certainly enough to put a certain demographic off from buying the product, which is fair enough. I don’t think, for instance, that I would buy Macs for employees to use at work. [/QUOTE]
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