What's Your Mac Setup??

[b84]

I was just wondering:
1. what Apple you have to do your creative work.?

2.What creative work is it that you do? if you were in graphic design, web, or music, photography, etc...

[thebassoonist]

I have a MBP 2.4 GHz and I do music editing. It works perfectly.

I also do some stuff with films (just family/friends) and I am very happy with iPhoto for organizing my digital photos.

[TEG]

PowerBook G4 667 (DVI) with 1GB RAM, 100GB 7200RPM HD, external MyBook 500GB HD. I create templates for a web CMS system using Dreamweaver and create content for those templates as well as transferring data from existing sites to these newly created sites. I also do audio production for an AM radio podcast.

TEG

[GimmeSlack12]

iMac 24" in bedroom.
MacMini G4 media center in living room.
iBook G4 12" as a floating internet computer in living room.

I live with 2 other bachelors in SF.

[bocomo]

mac pro quad (not the new one) 2.66 with 5GB ram. two monitor setup, main one is a 22"

i'm a photographer (www.beaucomeaux.com) and really just work with photoshop, illustrator, dreamweaver

haven't gotten into video yet...

[iToaster]

Soon to be a Quad 2.8 Mac Pro (for video editing) once I ship off this 2.4 MacBook Pro.

[mperkins37]

The one in my sig.

[BryanLyle]

Main machine: 2.8 Octo Mac Pro w/ 6gb of ram
Travel machine: 2.4 MBP with 17 Hi Res screen
Couch machine: Macbook

[b84]

I am enivous of you Bryan, nice setup.

I would like a MP and a MB or MB

[fridgeymonster3]

MP 2.8 Octo, 10 GB RAM, 1.82TB, 24" Gateway Monitor

Soon to be purchased: Penryn Macbook Pro (whenever released to replace my crap Dell) and most likely a MBA (for my wife, she wants one for her birthday)

I use my MP for web design. I am also starting to get into video editing - just home/vacation videos.

[JSchwage]

My main machine is the MacBook is my signature. I do a lot of web design and coding. Unfortunately, Fireworks MX 2004 seems to kick up the fans pretty good and it's somewhat slow. Though it's running under Rosetta mind you.

[xfiftyfour]

The rig is in my signature and I work in print and web design (primarily web design as of late). The computer works great, but I need to upgrade my monitor soon...

[aross99]

MPB 2.33 w/3G Ram...

Basic Photo Editing, and some Photoshop work. I also maintain a few web sites with Golive 6.0.

[Clix Pix]

3.0 GHz Quad Mac Pro (first generation) with 8 GB RAM, 4 500GB HD to handle the heavy lifting of digital imaging post-processing and storage. I use Photo Mechanic to quickly review and choose good images, discard poor images, then move on to Aperture to post-process the good ones. When something needs more attention or I want to experiment, I take it on into CS3 Photoshop.

Also have a 15" MBP and a 17" MBP. Up until now the 15" MBP has been the traveling machine and the 17" MBP has been a desktop replacement hooked up to a 23" ACD. I also have a G5 rev B iMac (which was my very first Mac!) in the master bedroom, and that is the computer I've been using after 10:00 at night so that I don't disturb my downstairs neighbor, whose bedroom is right beneath my living room (and my computer workstations).

With the recent purchase of the 1.8 SSD MacBook Air, things have changed. I haven't been using the old G5 in the bedroom -- instead I'm sitting in here using the MBA, comfortably positioned with it on my lap, sprawled in a chair, feet up on the bed..... The MBA will definitely be replacing the 15" MBP as my traveling machine and I guess it will also be replacing the G5 as my "after-10:00 PM" machine as well!

[Blue Velvet]

I'm a graphic designer, mostly print.

At work I use a dual 2.5 G5 with 4gbs of RAM; it's starting to show its age. At home, I use a MBP 17" 2.33 with external monitor and keyboard, and I also have a 13" 2.2 BlackBook that's only used for emailing and web, mostly in bed or in the kitchen.

[jacobluecke]

I've got one of the 20-inch aluminum imacs that I use for acoustic guitar recording and instrumental songwriting (here). I use it with the Digi Mbox and Protools LE.
The machine is overkill for my simple purposes, but I'm not complaining...

[Sorkvild]

I have a Mirror Drive G4 that I have upgraded the pants off of: Dual 1.6 Ghz, 1.25 RAM, Radeon 9800 Pro, DVD-RW drive.

I guess my creative work is all homework

[dukeblue91]

I have a new PM Quad 2.8 with 8 gig of ram, an iBook 1.2, 2 Mac Mini's PPC and Intel and a Power Mac G4 upgraded to 1.2 ghz. with 2 gig of ram.

I use them for many things but mostly for web design, Photoshop and running and maintaining 3 online businesses.

[Artful Dodger]

My main setup is my 20" iMac C2D, 2GB Ram, BT KB & MM as well as my Wacom Intuos3 9x12 Tablet for drawing. For use in my living room is a 14" G4 iBook, 1.25GB Ram, which my tablet gets hooked up to at night so that I can work on my drawings while watching my tv shows and whatnot. Also a 4GB usb drive to transfer my drawings from the iBook to my iMac the next day.
I use Flash, PSE3 and learning Painter all of which are running on both machines quite well for my needs. I will mainly do my drawing outlines and ruff stuff on the iBook, then bring my stuff to my iMac for color and shading. Also the iBook is used when I do video on my iMac so things get done and not left for hours on end .
I really think that a 17" MBP with all the bells and whistles would be my best choice as would a 23" display to go with it and still keep my iMac for the video and backup needs.

[Agurri]

I have a Core Duo Macbook 2ghz/2gb/200gb 7200.... I guess I like the number "2". I'm an Electrical Engineer student, and I mostly use my mac for ... homeworks... recently, I installed Matlab via bootcamp. So that's it .

[a104375]

at my school we use 20" imacs and i find them greatly sized to do graphic design

[barijazz]

Originally Posted by a104375

at my school we use 20" imacs and i find them greatly sized to do graphic design

My school uses dells (expensive slow as hell dells).

[themoonisdown09]

24" iMac
- 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo
- 4GB of RAM
- 750 GB internal HD
- 500 GB external HD

15" Macbook Pro
- 2.16 GHz Core Duo
- 2 GB of RAM
- 120 GB internal HD

I mainly do programming and web design. I use iPhoto for all my digital photos and iMovie for my home movies. My friends and I have been doing a lot of music recording using Cubase with a firewire interface.

[wilmor42]

i do audio recording and production and also video post, i have a powerbook 15" 1.5ghz G4 which i use for all location recording and editing and an iMac 2.4ghz w/4GB ram at home as my main workstation... im not complaining.. i got it hooked up to a 20 ACD too.

[mojopixel]

SR MacBook 2.2, 4GB RAM, BenQ FP241W Z 24 inch LCD Monitor, Adobe Design Premium to do Web Design

cheers,

mp