iMac Vs PC – A Graphic Designers Review 2020. 🖥
iMac Vs PC – A Graphic Designers Review 2020. 🖥
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In this video, I show you my new iMac, the reasons why I switched from PC to iMac and why most graphic designers and creatives use iMacs for their work.
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Really nice video.!! I am looking to decide b/w Macbook pro 16 inch (i9 processor) base model vs the 27 inch 5k imac with i7 processor. Would like to know your suggestions. I basically do graphic design and video editing for Youtube.
I believe that the biggest upside to Macs are the screen. Even those BenQ monitors can’t hold a candle to a 5k Retina display, and an equivalent monitor would cost around 2k – 2.5k.
Wtf dude…your imac is AWESOME!! FULL POWER (for now)!!!! 27" i9 8core 😱 40gb ram 😱😱 8gb VGA. Damn good stuff 👍! In my country, only the billionaire that will buy that imac 😭😭😭😭
🤦 the iMac is not future proof. The PC is and the problem is you really don’t know how to pick out PC parts. Use PC part picker then go to Newegg, Amazon etc and do price matching for your parts. It’s really not that hard.
Most of the comments here doesnt even watched the video
So genuine question here, I’ve never had any stability issues that couldn’t be solved with a quick google search over the past few years(honestly after a while you don’t even need google). I’ve used low end pc’s and high end pc’s so I think we can throw the stability issues as being wildly blown out of proportion. So back to my question do we just throw out the extensive price to performance comparisons done by multiple people on youtube? Like legitimately confused. People on here keep stating how it’s the same price roughly between the two but idk man there seems to be a lot of videos disproving that and they’ve got numbers and graphs to prove it (as opposed to the it’s just better argument).
Is 5k even necessary for most tasks? What if im on a budget?
Hey what’s that beat you used? 😀
You think your apple mice or keyboard is worth *’a couple 100£’?*
A few hundred pounds for a mouse and keyborad?
so i went to see how much is it and wow no
Great video, but I must say that £3000-5000 estimate is a bit too much. I’m a PC user since I started using computers, and for me it works very well. My current gear is a 3 years old Strix that still does the job brilliantly with all the peripherals (monitor, mouse, keyboard) that all together cost about £1500. The same specs for me in a mac would crawl up to about £2.5k.
Just to make it clear this is not an argument from, as I know that if you’d like to get the best one in the market that would be Microsoft Surface Studio 2 for about £4.5k, but with perspective for logo design you won’t need the best specs, for a £1.5k there’s a lot of option option also with relatively great peripherals when it comes to PC.
Anyhow, good video and I’m envious of your studio setup. 😉
@7:15 6 years isn’t impressive in "Tech years". 8 years or more is.
The thing is, after 5 years its "vintage" and if the logiboard decide to die or the power supply dies (u should replace PSU each 5-6 years). You cant get any as their not produced anymore. Or their alternative products simply dont fit in the machine. Maybe if you’re lucky they sell you a refurbished unit for the price of a new one.
I’ve been a certified mac technician for 10 years. Im happy doing a carreer switch.
even apple is also good for programmers also.😊
I’m increasingly turned off by the hit and miss quality of the Mac desktops I’ve used over recent years and was hoping for a video that was going to suggest pc alternatives. This video wasn’t quite what I was looking for. Like my last three macs, its a bit disappointing. Unlike my last three Macs, it ran without a hitch from start to finish.
I moved over from Apple to a PC. I do illustration in Photoshop and illustrator. I still use my Macbook pro and for the drawing mobile i use an iPad pro with procreate. I haven regret a tiny moment with the switch. Windows 10 feels great. MacOS and Windows 10 are not so different tbh. I dont see myself going back soon. I dont like how Apple is moving the last 5+ years. In my eyes they abandoned their hardcore users, the creative sector.
Will, I can’t even imagine going back to PC. 🤷🏻♀️I have an iMac and it is my best friend in the world. 🥰 I thought your explanation was spot on. Thanks a lot.
How to spot a Designer Wannabe:
1-buy a Macbook
2- put on those thick plastic frames/glasses.
3-go to Startbux and pretend you are doing something on your Macbook.
Hey Will, or anyone else reading this. I’ve had Macs since 2008, my current iMac is a Late 2014, the fan is starting to go bad so i’ve been tempted to figure out a jumping point to either a new Mac or build a PC. Based off your experience, if you only had one machine, would you build another PC to have your gaming when you want it but have all the power for design work as well? Or would you stick to the Mac and get a game console? I’m also torn if I stay Mac to either tear down my current iMac and replace the fan + SSD or jump to a 16" MBP.
Man, I get that productivity is key on a work rig no matter how you arrive at it. It just hurts to know the AMD build I’m working on right now is roughly twice the efficiency at the same cost. Even at $1,500 for a stupidly overpriced monitor. 3900x, 5700XT, 32GB 3200MHz DDR4, 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe. All for at or under $2,000. That said, most of the parts are sold out right now, but even going with equivalents at those price points yield way better results for the money.
@4:12 A few hundred pound for a mouse?! What the hell are you smoking?!
The problem is that I work as a designer and front end developer, and I’ve found that MacOS is very difficult to use for things like .NET development. Building projects locally on a Mac that run Windows frameworks is a bloody nightmare! It’s a shame though, because I do really like MacOS for other things
Hi, is the Pro Vega 48 that much better than the Pro 580x better for graphic design?
I’m considering this same iMac since mine is from 2008. You said it has a terabyte hard drive. Is it the fusion drive or did you upgrade it to the ssd? I think the ssd would really future proof it but it’s an extra $500.
Agree and Interested to see you check out the all in one PC and compare
Hey, you know the premiere pro runs better on a pc when you spend the same amount of money in a pc, you’ll get better specs & more performance
Nice video, I am on a macbook pro that I bought in 2015 and very happy with it (I work in cyber security, and do a bit of music editing for fun). I do like to game now and then and the video card on it (intel) is a bit lacklustre. I am looking at getting something that will sit on my desktop most of the time, and that I’ll use mostly for gaming and music editing, and I’m between an iMac and a PC. What I like about the iMac is that now I’m used to MacOS as I have a Mac at home and at work, and I own an iphone and an apple watch. I don’t mind Windows at all, it’s just that now my workflow is adapted to mac (I’m also used to Garage Band for music). On the other hand, I can build a PC that would have a much nicer video card (processor, ram and storage would be about the same) for the same amount of money, or even a bit less (this is including mouse, keyboard and monitor).
At the end of the day I think there is no right answer, it really depends on your use case and personal preference. I never understood people who are really passionate about buying one platform or the other.
You find it easier to use for design work because MacOS is object based. If you set up hot corners to adjust your workflow you can drag and drop all day – very smooth experience
Honestly 5k is overkill..
Another good thing is sidecar so you can use your iPad as somewhat if a drawing tablet type thing
A year and 3 months ago I’ve built a hackintosh with the exact same specs as iMac 27" 2019.
The only difference was in the screen – 4k LG one instead of the built-in iMac’s 5k retina.
If someone is interested what are the specs:
– motherboard Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Pro 1 Wifi;
– video card: AMD RX580 8GB;
– 32GB DDR4 RAM 3200MHz;
– 512GB M2 Storage with ~2800MB read/write speeds;
– Logitech MX Keys keyboard with backlight keys and ability to pair and switch between 3 devices;
It works flawlessly and updates just as regular mac.
This year’s September I’ve bought a iMac 27" 2020 model with preinstalled 32GB RAM from Apple and 512GB SSD storage (also – 3.8GHz i7 CPU, AMD Radeon Pro 5500XT 8GB VGA).
I’ve paid about 6600BGN which should be about 3300Euro or 3900USD.
For those who wonder how I did pay for the hackintosh – it cost me 3000BGN or 1500Euro/1820USD – that includes the computer, monitor and the peripherals.
Most of the hackintosh parts have 3 or 2 years warranty (the M2 SSD has 5 years and the RAM – lifetime warranty). And the Apple iMac – just 1-year warranty.
Currently, I wonder is it a good idea to switch the hackintosh to regular PC with Windows 10.
Sketch isn’t the most used tool nowadays, as the XD and Figma gains more and more popularity. So why not?
I might wait a couple of days for the Big Sur release and test it out. Another way to go would be just to purchase second M2 SSD and install Windows 10 on it.
I have an iMac.
With your iMac budget you can build a top PC for productivity, gaming, work, Entertainment, a 100$ top notch mechanical keyboard, a top notch 100$ mouse, two or three professional monitors for design and professional image quality editing. The only factor there is the portability. The longevity is the same. The hardware won’t change on any machine.
Mac is inferior
I think what people, who say that Apple computers are overpriced, don t get is that they don’t use them for the right things. If you use your pc just for some office work and playing games (probably like most people) or even other creative work like making music, it will be obviously way cheaper to get a decent PC. You can even build them yourselves and get something really powerful under 1k. But, as soon as you do creative work where it is absolutely essential to have a good screen that depicts colours correctly you will very quickly find that apple pc’s are far more affordable. Honestly, I don’t get fanboys for windows or apple. Both have their pros and cons and both have specific uses that they excel at. Buy the PC you need
Does a gaming a hardrive work with imac
A few hundred pounds for the keyboard, a few hundred pounds for the mouse?! Maybe a few “tens” of pounds
Which best video editing Imac pro or custom pc buil.please ans one line.
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not a fanboy of any
*shows only Mac
just saying 😂
I already have a 2016 MacBook Pro, while I need a monitor for design and video editing works. The LG UltraFine 5K gives me an iMac-like visual experience.
£2000 = $3500 dollars xD, probably meant $2500 I had to rewind it to check what he said. none the less good video
So I watched your video and I came to the conclusion that you state why mac is better for design is that it has all the peripherals. But you never went deeper in that material of what that benefits in the use of a mac. You’re guessing its because of the OS, it never throttles and the display has true colors. Its not a legit reason for a deep windows/PC user to buy a mac instead to go into designing. Most time of your video you are talking about the specs of the machine, telling us numbers. 2,8gigahertz this 128 gigabyte that. No one cares, you probaly never utilized it 100%, and when you did you saved 1minute of your time rendering somrthing.
I am not convinced by your video, sadly. As everything you encountered has workarounds to fix it.
I am in the opinion that Windows sucks. And the reasons a PC throttles has many reasons. Its either a virus, windiws itself never get properly maintained or you get weird errors or bugs because of RAM incompatability or the RAM is being faulty without you ever noticing.
The real question to me remains: if you’re using a program what runs on both iOS and windows. Why would you use a mac instead of a PC?
And which programs for design/video editting out there can only be run on a Mac what has utilizations what a PC doesn’t have or can never be executed? If you can answer these 2 questions you deserve a medal
can i used my 8k Dell Monitor with Mac Pro?
4:08 few hundred £££ for a keyboard and few hundred £££ for a mouse !!! Which ones are you using?
Dude you have no idea what Throttle down means. It has absolutely nothing to do with your HD! You need look shit up before you make these kinds of statements!
Im pretty happy with my core i5 c:
Ryzen 3 is pretty amazing for Hackintosh, and will pretty much beat mac’s at 3 times the price.. and will leave you with a much cheaper upgrade path (am aware that Apple is working hard to kill off Hackintosh (But funnily enough aloows you to install windows just fine) to keep their insane markups on hardware by using proprietary plugs, even for ordinary HD’s to force their users to buy hardware trough them… 400$ for an 8TB HD… 4 0 0 $.. that’s nuts!)
The new iMac pro is crazy expensive… Even with the screen in mind, and leaves you with no way to upgrade. The 18 core option is more than twice the price of the Ryzen 3950x (EXTRA mind you!), that will outperform even the mac pro in many configs! And Hackintosh lets you use any software you want!
Sorry but "being a designer, technically means having an Imac" is kind of a weird statement to make. Kind of hard to believe you use windows when almost all shots show your Imac 😉 Your intro was kind of vague, you started out saying using a PC but than showed buying an Apple again. So recently its Apple 😉 PS a Imac is always better in small space. More compact, no separate components. Just a single screen and thats it