Why? Because it Works

Maybe a better title for this would be, “Why? Because it doesn’t work.” 

Last night was a clincher. I’m phasing out the desktop PCs. We’ll hang on to the laptops, though.

As I mentioned the other day, for some reason, most of the Windows machines are being junk lately, particularly my relatively new HP and Donna’s old A-Open. The A-Open, I can see having problems. It’s a P3 running Windows 98se. It’s old, and it’s over-worked. But the HP shouldn’t be problematic.

Adding insult to the HP’s injury, last night I had a client coming over to work on a fairly heavy-duty graphics project. Basically, I’m handling the graphic design and photography for all of the packaging and promotional material for his new CD, which comes out next month. Rather than fight it out with the alleged production machine (the HP), I decided to bring the 19″ monitor down and connect it to my laptop.

The thing worked beautifully across both monitors while simultaneously running Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS2, Firefox with several open tabs and OpenOffice Write. I don’t get it. This machine has a P4M at 2/3 the speed of the desktop, and half the memory. Yet it consistently outperforms the supposedly “better” PC.

Anyway, I’m going to be having a sale on desktops soon. Bargains, all, to be replaced by a couple of these:

This is a 24″ iMac. I want mine to have the faster processor (a 2.33GHz Core Duo) and 2GB RAM, and I also want to get Final Cut pre-installed on one of the machines. The “stock” 250GB hard disk and the wired keyboard and mouse are fine, though. As it comes with the “superdrive” CD/DVD burner, plenty of USB2.0 ports, both flavors of firewire, ethernet, WiFi, and the ability to add an external monitor, it’s plenty expandable. And, it’s blazing fast. Oh, yeah, there’s even a built-in web-cam device. Photoshop even opens in a hurry on the thing. Why would I switch from PCs to a Mac? Because it works.

So, all I need is $3K per machine. Anyone wanna help me out?