Strange Artifacts

[CosmicDolphin]

Haha...I'm getting a Mac for my wife ...be ready in a couple of weeks.

Congrats CD

[Gerk]

Yep that sounds pretty good price wise.

[CosmicDolphin]

Yep that sounds pretty good price wise.

I think it'll be more than powerful enough for her...I read a few moans about the screens having varying brightness across the panel...anyone else come across it...?  I don't think it's a dealbreaker, the screen she uses now isn't that great.

CD

[Gerk]

The biggest complaint I've seen about that generation of iMac (and doesn't apply to the 24" models) is that the 20" models use an 6-bit controller, meaning that they are not fantastic for color accuracy.  That said it's not a problem for that one as they use the standard 8 bit controller.

The screens in those are pretty nice for photography stuff actually, I don't think she'll have any complaints at all.  it's a good fast machine, large and accurate screen and has enough memory and hard drive to keep her happy.

[CosmicDolphin]

The biggest complaint I've seen about that generation of iMac (and doesn't apply to the 24" models) is that the 20" models use an 6-bit controller, meaning that they are not fantastic for color accuracy.  That said it's not a problem for that one as they use the standard 8 bit controller.

The screens in those are pretty nice for photography stuff actually, I don't think she'll have any complaints at all.  it's a good fast machine, large and accurate screen and has enough memory and hard drive to keep her happy.

That's what I figured...not sure which version of OSX is on it...maybe wait till Snow Leopard comes out if I want to get the latest.  Might put an extra stick of ram into it as it's so cheap now and take it to 2gb.

Of course I may just decide I want it for my Studio 

CD

[Gerk]

I'd use regular Leopard for it, it's pretty stable and runs really well.  Snow leopard will have some bumps when it first comes out, they've done some MASSIVE under the hood changes to things so I'd wait until at least the first couple of updates after snow leopard if it's going to be a "production" machine.

You'll love it for the studio stuff   When you're ready drop me a PM and I'll fill you in on what software you want to use for things

Mark

[CosmicDolphin]

I'd use regular Leopard for it, it's pretty stable and runs really well.  Snow leopard will have some bumps when it first comes out, they've done some MASSIVE under the hood changes to things so I'd wait until at least the first couple of updates after snow leopard if it's going to be a "production" machine.

You'll love it for the studio stuff   When you're ready drop me a PM and I'll fill you in on what software you want to use for things

Mark

Sadly it'll be in the Kitchen Diner...so I won't be able to sneak it into the studio..I'll probaby have a play with Garageband and teach my son how to make music on it though.

And I'll use it for video-editing the home movies & stuff....

CD

CD