What kind of Mac computer should i use for lots of photoshop?

portable hard drive 7200 rpm image

Tim

Hi, I am looking for a new mac computer for work. There it is connected to a big server and I want to use it a lot for photoshop, illustrator and indesign.
What I all ready found:

iMac 27 inch
3.4 GHz quad core Intel i7
RAM 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3 (Maybe with 32GB?)
Fusion drive 1 TB (128 Flash memory + 872 HDD)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 675MX 1 GB DDR5

and

Mac Pro
Two 2.40GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
12GB DDR3
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB

Wich one should you suggest? Or maybe you have other suggestions?

Thanks
(Mac Pro is the desktop computer from apple, not to be confused with the Macbook Pro)

Answer
well if your are not bothered about being portable then i would go for the imac. the mac pro may be easily upgraded but it has not been updated in years and i now far less powerful than the imac. you could maybe even consider a mac mini as these may be the cheapest mac on the market but they would still be pretty good for photoshop. whatever you get make sure that you pay for all the extras so that it is at the highest possible spec. in the long run it will make a big difference.

I am looking to purchase an external hard drive for my computer and want to know which brand is best?

Sandra L

am looking at the portable hard drives with 500gb and there are many brands and I am unsure which ones are good ones and which ones to stay away from. They are all in the same price range. They are samsung, toshiba, western digital, a-data, lacie, seagate and dane-elec. Any info on these would be helpful.

Answer
The interface matters the most and you probably want 7200 RPM instead of 5400 RPM, unless you use the external hard drive infrequently and want to save power. Do you have e-SATA, firewire ports, or USB 3.0 ports? Note that USB 2.0 is standard now and few people have 3.0 yet.

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