PC advice

[agatha]

Hi

I'm a web designer currently using a Mac. I'm moving to PC soon so I can use the same Adobe License as my partner.

Can anyone recommend a PC for web design? My budget is around £1000.

Also, is it possible to buy a package of fonts for PC, so I don't have to go buying every time I need a different font? Or am I hideously out of date in assuming that PCs don't come with a very good selection of fonts?

My other option is to buy another Mac and use BootCamp. Does anyone have any experience of this?

Thanks

 

[web_design]

regards the fonts, simply go to dafont.com and download what you want.

For a pc the best price is to build yourself, alternatively why not try ebay, you can get some decent quad cores with 4 gig ram for around £400. If you want to spend 1k i would suggest a quad off ebay, then get 16gig performance ram of crucial.com and a decent graphics card (all of which adobe photoshop CS4 64bit can utilize well)

be carefull on ebay though, generally they will slap in a rubbish graphics card but it will contain 1 gig of ram, which although is high isnt as powerfull as some of the lower ram'd ones. Try a ati x1900, good enough for graphics editing and a bargain at 30-40 quid.

 

[PixelPusher]

One option (which i currently use) is the Parallels Desktop for Mac. Allows for a virtual pc on your mac. It creates a virtual environment where you can run windows xp or vista ( i prefer xp) and then any pc app. It pretty cool. The only con to this is if you get a mac laptop (i have a macbook pro) the battery charge doesn't last as long.

As far as pcs go, I have a Dell Vostro and it is excellent.

Regarding fonts, there are many free font sources out there on the web just do a google search for free fonts. Also for top quality fonts, adobe has a fonts section on their website.