Frootloop
Technology Fan
Hi Guys, this is my first post on here. Thought i would drift on over as a result of a post over at the paracast RE platforms.
About 14 months ago, I was in the market for a shiny new laptop and decided to take a look at the range of macs which were on offer at that time. Obviously i fell in love with the system, yet didnt buy one. Why? well, at the time I was about to start a home study robotics course and Mac's were simply not supported by the course software. So off i went and bought an xp laptop
Now... since then, my situation has changed totally, I have now been off work sick for about 12 months and have since set up as self employed carying out illustration and design work for various contacts using Corel Draw on my trusty laptop. With the advent of Vista, I can safely say that MY NEXT SYSTEM WILL BE A MAC (just want to make that clear ) and am wondering about the switchover. I realise that i can use parallels or boot camp for running XP but as i would like to use the mac in Native OS X and realise that i will probably have to switch to Adobe Illustrator. Has any one here done a similar switch?
I would probably go the iMac route as i like the form factor and feel a mini will probably prove to be somewhat restrictive. And the new aluminum casing will of course match my ipod mini
About 14 months ago, I was in the market for a shiny new laptop and decided to take a look at the range of macs which were on offer at that time. Obviously i fell in love with the system, yet didnt buy one. Why? well, at the time I was about to start a home study robotics course and Mac's were simply not supported by the course software. So off i went and bought an xp laptop
Now... since then, my situation has changed totally, I have now been off work sick for about 12 months and have since set up as self employed carying out illustration and design work for various contacts using Corel Draw on my trusty laptop. With the advent of Vista, I can safely say that MY NEXT SYSTEM WILL BE A MAC (just want to make that clear ) and am wondering about the switchover. I realise that i can use parallels or boot camp for running XP but as i would like to use the mac in Native OS X and realise that i will probably have to switch to Adobe Illustrator. Has any one here done a similar switch?
I would probably go the iMac route as i like the form factor and feel a mini will probably prove to be somewhat restrictive. And the new aluminum casing will of course match my ipod mini