Mac or pc for photography work

I bought a Dell dual core 2Ghz, 2Gb ram, 256Mb dual head DVI graphics card, 300Gb HD, for <£200. dell outlet store.

beat that apple mac users. Equivalent mac was £1150 (albeit with a monitor).

I'd be curious to know what software is necessary for photography that hasnt been ported to PC...

macs do have really good monitors, but ive been trying to get across exactly what your saying.

A pc and a mac are the same thing now. a mac just has a different operating system interface which is geared to the 'casual lifestyle' kind of user, for people who dont want to get to the nitty gritty of whats going on in their machine.

They all have the same innards, and for any student or self employed professional its PC all the fucking way. They do use macs in industry, but only because the company is footing the bill, and with companies its cheaper to buy full new suites of computers & software rather than fiddling about with small tweaks and upgrades to keep your rig up to date.

Ive already said it, but photoshop works incredibly well on any modern PC, even a cheapy. if you got 2ghz dual core, 2gb of ram. you can at times*, put a big mac pro rendering rig to shame.

• my university illustration & vis com dept got a big mac suite, best of EVERYTHING. but working with photoshop, my brothers 3 year old laptop (pc) or my dell desktop is far faster.
  
  

And I have a new mac too, but only because someone else bought it for me!