Mac (1992)

Can someone recommend a good Mac system for working with Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3? (more info below)?

I have started college after being out of high school since 1992. I’m pursuing a degree in graphics and multimedia, and I am going to be working with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3.

I would avoid buying a Mac on eBay, I regard purchasing something like that risky. You might instead go to the Apple Store on line and search for refurbished systems. I would look for at very least a G5 (you should be able to run CS3 just fine on such a system, where I am going to school it’s on G5’s.) Or you can go to the new Intel Macs, there should be some excellent systems out there, used or refurbished.

You’ll want at least a 200 gig harddrive, although you can do okay with a smaller one. 2 GB of RAM minimum. A CD/DVD combo drive (both for installing things and burning CDs and DVDs). Minimally a 20-inch screen. (You might even find that the newest iMacs will work fine for you, the 24-inch is sweet). Most Macs from the last few years can be pretty easily upgraded, more RAM added, a bigger hard drive, etc.

I’d look at about two or three possibilities: a G5 tower (PowerMac) with the above hard drive and RAM requirements, or an Intel-based Mac, either the tower or the iMac. The advantages of the iMac are that it is an all-in-one machine, the machine is in the monitor so you save deskspace. And the new iMacs do allow you to screen-span, that is, add a second monitor (the towers do this, and have for a long time, but it wasn’t an automatic thing with the G5 iMacs).

Although CS3 supposedly will run on a G4, I would not get anything older or less powerful/speedy than a G5.

Hope that helps!

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