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hot_pastrami · 02-14-2003, 12:33 PM

Wow, dave... thanks for all the info. That box at Smalldog is looking like the route to take right now, but it'll take an effort of will to talk myself into it. I am such a hardcore PC guy, and have been for years, that buying an Apple is a totally foreign idea. The fact that I'm seriously considering it surprised the hell out of my friends, who would have thought it impossible.

Ok, another technical question for you... which type of DIMM do Apples use, exactly? Here are the three 512MB PC2100 DDR DIMM types listed on Crucial:

DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Unbuffered • Non-parity • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 64
DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Unbuffered • ECC • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 72
DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Registered • ECC • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 72

Ugh, another thing I realized is that I'll have to fork over another $600 for Mac Photoshop 7.0. So by the time I buy the box, ship it, get the extra memory and buy Photoshop, I'll be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2400. I guess I've got to decide if the expense is worth it for me right now... I want to get onto professional graphics design, and getting a Mac appears to be the only way to do that, but that's a lot of scratch to scare up right now.

Thanks

02-14-2003, 12:33 PM	#13
hot_pastrami I am meaty Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 1,119	Wow, dave... thanks for all the info. That box at Smalldog is looking like the route to take right now, but it'll take an effort of will to talk myself into it. I am such a hardcore PC guy, and have been for years, that buying an Apple is a totally foreign idea. The fact that I'm seriously considering it surprised the hell out of my friends, who would have thought it impossible. Ok, another technical question for you... which type of DIMM do Apples use, exactly? Here are the three 512MB PC2100 DDR DIMM types listed on Crucial: DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Unbuffered • Non-parity • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 64 DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Unbuffered • ECC • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 72 DDR PC2100 • CL=2.5 • Registered • ECC • 7.5ns • 2.5V • 64Meg x 72 Ugh, another thing I realized is that I'll have to fork over another $600 for Mac Photoshop 7.0. So by the time I buy the box, ship it, get the extra memory and buy Photoshop, I'll be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2400. I guess I've got to decide if the expense is worth it for me right now... I want to get onto professional graphics design, and getting a Mac appears to be the only way to do that, but that's a lot of scratch to scare up right now. Thanks __________________ Hot Pastrami!