Buyer inquiry: My Quad vs. his 2.8 C2D 15" MBP

[burnout8488]

My 2.5 Quad is for sale on craigslist, and a prospective buyer has e-mailed me this:

"I might be interested in your PowerMac. I currently use a Mac Book Pro (2.8ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gb ram) for graphic editing (photoshop, indesign, dreamweaver, etc). Can you tell me if your machine will be quicker? Thanks!"

Will the Quad be a good desktop substitute for the kind of work he does? I want to give him an honest answer, not an "Of course! When can you come pick it up?" without knowing for sure.

I told him that the Quad is still very strong for that type of work, and was comparable to Macs sold even as late as 2-3 years ago in raw power.

Thanks all.

 

[iBookG4user]

It will be slightly slower in processing power according to geekbench, however you can put 16GB of RAM in the Power Mac, which would definitely help out when editing large images.

 

[burnout8488]

Thanks! Looks like it wouldn't be too much of a downgrade, if any for him.

 

[666sheep]

Tell him, that he'll be also limited to Adobe CS4, it could make a difference compatibility-wise, especially for InDesign works.