I'm now officially a Mac owner...

[ouphe]

...and damn, am I ever impressed. It's on thing to work at a lab full of dual-processor G4's: it's another creature completely to have, sitting on your desk, a dual-processor PM G5. I've NEVER run CS2 so quickly. Anyone who wants a hardcore graphic design machine, pick out the PM G5 of your choice and go at it.
Thanks again to everyone who helped me through the buying process: I'll no doubt be posting again sometime soon for advice on augmenting this thing with RAM and possibly a more powerful video card.
Thanks!

-Colin

 

[dansuz1]

Good for you Colin! Welcome to the club. This is a great forum for news and help with your new computer.

 

[gwuMACaddict]

glad you like your new mac. i recently upgraded to the rev b iMac, 20inch screen, 2.0GHz. it's amazing, can't even imagine how fast the powermacs must be.

 

[Studawg7]

welcome to club mac! ive been drooling over a G5 for oh i dont know how long... but my ibook keeps me happy till that day i finish my masters and actually get a job

 

[FFTT]

Welcome to 2 GHz G5 dually bliss!

I'm doing great on 1 GB RAM, but still want to take this puppy up another notch adding at least another Gig.

 

[VanMac]

Congrats!

I too am looking forward to dually PM at some point. New iBook is just a blast though. Goes along OK for most things with 1.5GB RAM

 

[Dynamyk]

Congrats, I hope I can get one like that one day

 

[wdlove]

Welcome to the club Colin, congratulations. I would high recommend at least 1GB of RAM, you will see a noticeable improvement in performance. Purchase what you can afford. Also AppleCare is important.

 

[WeeShoo]

Congrat's, Apple will bring you nothing but Joy.

 

[twoodcc]

congrats! i'm glad you like your new mac. have fun with it

 

[Lacero]

Bring back the Switch Forums. I think with the upcoming intel Macs, we'll see a new and larger, more deadly influx of PC users into the Mac community. Especially as they infiltrate and dilute the pure Mac users on this board. We need a new forum to contain this PC spread. BTW, I'm not implying the OP is a PC user at all.

 

[Bern]

Good on you

If you need a good LCD screen with a 16.7M colour display I recommend the CMV - 726D 17"

 

[ouphe]

Thanks for the welcome, everybody! This board has never steered me wrong, so I'm definitely sticking around.
Bern: thanks for the advice, but I already have a 20" Dell Ultrasharp Widescreen LCD that I'm using for my PM.

 

[jamesW135]

Congrats on your mac!