Have a (very!) small business, and have been persuaded that, for design reasons, we need a Mac laptop which is probably fair. We’ll also need MS office on it too.

I know you don’t tend to get discount deals, but any good places to buy from. Thinking J Lewis re their warranty. Any other recos?

Thanks

Apple reconditioned on Apple site.

Just picked up an MBP for £150 off retail and it’s brand new still in all the wrappers with all the accessories and a 1 year warranty.

You could get a Apple Certified Refurbished one from the UK apple store? It’s a little cheaper than a new one. Also Apple are about to update the Macbook Pro if you want to hold on a bit. Not sure when that is.

Personally there is no difference in designing on Mac or PC. The programs are the same on both machines. If your costs are tight and you have a PC that will run the Adobe suite of programs use that.

Adobe now do a monthly subscription to there products if that helps with costs etc?

Cheers

Tim

its a shame you’re not in higher education – there is a good discount i believe on such purchases….:)

Unless anything has changed recently then regardless of software and system performance there are still distinctions between macs and windows systems for designers if you are using text. PCs render text for sharpness at the expense of font design – for instane they’ll move the horizontal stroke in an ‘e’ up or down to the nearest pixel for or make the strokes thicker, thiner of shift them to fit the pixel pattern of the monitor. Mac keep to the original font proportions and will blur rather than distort a font in order the preserve the shape and weight of the text as it would appear on the printed page. If you deal with a lot of text in design – page layouts etc then what you see on the screen will be a more useful indication of what will actually roll off the press.