over 6 years ago from Remus Baltariu, Digital Designer
Hello everyone,
Where I work, we're in the moment of buying a new Apple product for our design team and I wanted to ask you, which one would fit best in your opinion? An iMac 5k? The new Mac Book Pro?
Personally I vote for an iMac 5k equipped with an i7 and SSD, but maybe I'm not aware of every aspect, like personal experiences (from you guys).
Thank you!
What kind of design work? Web? iOS? Android? Print?
Mostly Web and mobile design. But we do from time to time print design also :)
If you don’t need a laptop, and can wait, an iMac or Mac Pro would be ace. I’m not sure I’d buy an iMac right now.
iMac
Days since last release: 423
Average: 317
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac
Who knows when the updates are coming though.
This may also be another positive for a Mac Pro with an external sRGB display: https://www.designernews.co/comments/242882
Yes, the idea is that we need to buy a new computer kinda right now. I looked for rumours or releasing dates for the upcoming Apple products...but I found nothing.
Anyway, thanks for the link, Mark. Really appreciated!
I think March 2017 is a likely timeframe for the iMacs, but who knows. http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/imac/
It would depend on the user's requirements. What if they need to work from home? In that case, a laptop with external monitor would be better.
No home work here :). But would be nice to be able to move around with your work horse. Is able a laptop (MacBook) to run smoothly PS? I've seen an iMac with 24GB RAM, and with PS opened and a project with 15 screens, only 3-4 GB left free. And since a laptop has (most of them) 16GB, how it runs fully loaded?
I can run a serious amount of applications on my 16GB Macbook Pro and it works a treat (even if the fan gets a little loud).
That makes me think that maybe either your Photoshop settings aren't quite optimised... or... you're trying to do too much in one document?
More RAM is not always the answer.
EDIT: I've also got two monitors attached to my laptop and still runs ok.
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