After your G5 arrives, what will your setup look like?

[beatle888]

Originally posted by Moxiemike
You'd be surprised at what i;ve seen. Some of the crappiest designers I know use the best equipment.

One of my favorite photographers, a friend of mine's mom, uses disposable cameras.

And her photos got into an arts fest as an emerging artist. And yet, I know some people who are professionals who have 40k equipment set ups who take crappy pictures.

A friend of mine got a bunch of his paintings copied by a large imaging house here in town. He paid 80 bucks per shot, for about 20 paintings and the images were CRAP. Noisy, one was blurry, I had to spend tons of time in PS post processing these, which was supposedly included....

So yea. You can have the best equipment but your can not be worth a crap.

Or you can shoot award winning Scottish landscapes on a disposable, printed at Wal Mart and have a brilliant amazing shot.

So good luck with your g5's. Or your super g4 systems. Or whatever.

I'll let my skills speak for themselves. I could outdesign a lot of people using g5's with only a Mac II, Pagemaker 2 and Illustrator 88. You know why? I have the best computer around, and I know how to use it- My mind.

this is crap.......you need the power to allow the creative process to flow....you cant tell me it isnt the preference to be able to create without having to be interrupted by a progress bar for a two minute wait on a transform.....a transform that you might want to refine.
and when your up against deadlines power is even more important.

 

[Peyote]

Originally posted by beatle888
this is crap.......you need the power to allow the creative process to flow....you cant tell me it isnt the preference to be able to create without having to be interrupted by a progress bar for a two minute wait on a transform.....a transform that you might want to refine.
and when your up against deadlines power is even more important.

You have a lot to learn.


The creative process shouldn't be happening when you are on the computer (for the most part anyway). The creative process should be going on while you are creating thumbnails, roughs, and comps. Once you finish your comp, you already know what it will look like on the computer...so you're not going to be playing guessing games like "hunt and peck typography" or "Let's see what this looks like." That stuff should betaken care of before you get to the computer. THE COMPUTER IS NOT A CREATIVE TOOL. Do you study design? If so, what college so I can make sure not to recommend anyone go there.

 

[Alte22a]

Originally posted by Peyote
You have a lot to learn.

The creative process shouldn't be happening when you are on the computer (for the most part anyway). The creative process should be going on while you are creating thumbnails, roughs, and comps. Once you finish your comp, you already know what it will look like on the computer...so you're not going to be playing guessing games like "hunt and peck typography" or "Let's see what this looks like." That stuff should betaken care of before you get to the computer. THE COMPUTER IS NOT A CREATIVE TOOL. Do you study design? If so, what college so I can make sure not to recommend anyone go there.

Yeap all the creative process is done before it actually reaches digital. This is a true fact, but do you ever get one of those days when the client says "I want this this and this" and you show them something "You mean this, this and this?" and they reply YES! all is going well until the proof is out and they want a friggin CHANGE!!!

At this very point in the post production office you want to throw wacom tablet at the client and poke their eyes out with the stylus and if you have a 12"PB handy I guess I would have cooked them alive. Well you get my point. When things like this happens you pray to god that the render or what ever the function is perform as quickly as possible cause you just want this job over and done as soon as.

At College concept refinement is all good, but sometimes the real world just doesnt happen. Well thank god this doesnt happen very often hence I'm on a 3months break. Going back and hopefully getting new equipment for the new office.

 

[Frohickey]

Normally, I don't upgrade equipment or software quickly. I'm still using a PowerMac G4 AGP graphics. For me, its been very stable, on for months on end, quietly checking email, opening .pdf files, .xls files, etc. I could connect to it via Timbuktu while out travelling, and I haven't had to worry about it. Heck, its still running OS 9!

But I think its about time to start using a PowerMac G5. The old standby is starting to feel slow and sometimes it can't run the important business apps. So, it will be a PowerMac G5 dual 2GHz, 250GB SATA drive, Superdrive (included) and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (hopefully).

 

[Jookbox]

Mac:
Dual 2.0 Ghz. PowerMac G5
1GB PC3200 RAM
160GB Serial ATA
4x Superdrive
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
Apple Keyboard/Mouse
20" Cinema Display

PC:
Athlon XP2100(1.7GHz)
512MB PC2700 RAM
75GB Western Digital HD
2x20GB Western Digital HD
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
Microsoft Keyboard and Optical Mouse
19" Iiyama CRT

not sure why i was compelled to post this

 

[Freg3000]

See my sig.

Before that I had a 333Mhz Blueberry iMac. Way beforfe that we had a really old Mac, I think it cost $4000 and was 25 Mhz.