So, I've been searching and reading and searching and reading, and I think I've read about a billion posts trying to find my answer... but I haven't :/
I think I'm getting myself psyched out about buying a new iMac... I've been using this 12" PB G4 1.5gHz for the past 2.5 years as my main (and only) computer. While it's been an amazingly great companion, I'm in the web design business, and I know that since things are changing so quickly, I definitely need something much faster.
The thing is, I've read all these people complaining about the graphics card (the HD 2600 Pro), and how it's so underpowered and it's so lame of Apple to keep using that card, yadda yadda yadda. My question is, what is so bad about it, and is it really that bad? I've been to the Apple store, played a couple HD videos, opened Photoshop CS3, applied some filters to a photo pulled from iPhoto, and it seems great.
I guess what I'm asking is, if I'm going to be using the 2.8ghz 24" iMac with 4GB of ram, am I really going to have a problem with the video card if I'm only using it for Adobe CS3, Aperture, iLife suite, watching movies and maybe playing Sims 2? That and Age of Empires 2 are the only games I play, so gaming isn't really an issue.
Any help is appreciated... maybe someone can convince me to chill out hehe
I think I'm getting myself psyched out about buying a new iMac... I've been using this 12" PB G4 1.5gHz for the past 2.5 years as my main (and only) computer. While it's been an amazingly great companion, I'm in the web design business, and I know that since things are changing so quickly, I definitely need something much faster.
The thing is, I've read all these people complaining about the graphics card (the HD 2600 Pro), and how it's so underpowered and it's so lame of Apple to keep using that card, yadda yadda yadda. My question is, what is so bad about it, and is it really that bad? I've been to the Apple store, played a couple HD videos, opened Photoshop CS3, applied some filters to a photo pulled from iPhoto, and it seems great.
I guess what I'm asking is, if I'm going to be using the 2.8ghz 24" iMac with 4GB of ram, am I really going to have a problem with the video card if I'm only using it for Adobe CS3, Aperture, iLife suite, watching movies and maybe playing Sims 2? That and Age of Empires 2 are the only games I play, so gaming isn't really an issue.
Any help is appreciated... maybe someone can convince me to chill out hehe