23" ACD or iMac G5 20"?

[dukebound85]

Im a screen fan. I mean the macbook will be faster but last time i checked you cant use the imac as a monitor. Id get the screen and personally not an acd since they are so expensive (heck almost as much as a macbook). I know sony has some good monitors for at least half the cost. Just a thought

 

[MacManTexas56]

I'd go with the imac. Why pay $1100 for a 23inch screen when you can get an imac with 3 inch less screen for the same or even cheaper price than the lcd alone. Even with the price drop i think the ACD's are just way too overpriced. If you really need an lcd down the road you could always sell the imac later. Just think of if you really get into pro apps and you need a more powerful machine AFTER you've purchased the ACD. Are you going to take the ACD back and pay the useless restocking fee? In reality the macbook can't really cut it for pro apps. Yeah you will have one nice screen or you could have your macbook and a very nice 20inch imac that can run pro apps natively. I vote for IMAC.

now it would be a different story if you had a powerbook or MBP

 

[it5five]

Well Photoshop is okay with 2GB RAM, I just think it would be much nicer on a native G5. Aperture and Final Cut Express I think would benefit from the video card.

I'm not sure about Aperture, but the video card doesnt matter with FCE. There aren't any intense graphics that rely on the video card. FCE runs with the integrated graphics in the MacBook. In fact, all of Final Cut Studio, with the exception of Motion, runs on the MacBook.