What PC do you use for your post edits

[Village Idiot]

i-7 920 OC'ed to 3.8ghz on air at 55c constant temp with 6GB RAM and Nvidia GTX 295. Running OS X for PS and Win7 for the games. HP 30" monitor that's just a beauty to edit on.

Use a HP Mediasmart server with WHS for file storage. I think I have 4.75TB and I'll be expanding to 8TB eventually.

 

[KmH]

For my editing workstation I use a Dell Vostro 200 with an Intel dual core, 2.2 GHz processor w/4 GB of DD2 RAM, a 500 GB internal hard drive, and 2 TB of external storage partitioned as 4 - 500 GB drives.
I added a Radeon graphics card in the Vostro to facilitate a dual display setup, and allow enabeling of OpenGL in Photoshop

I used to edit on a Wacom Intuos 4 medium pen tablet with the image displayed on a Dell 22" IPS UltraSharp display, until I upgraded to a Wacom 21" Cintique pen display, and still use a Dell 19" TN display for my editing work pallets and desktop.

Here is a shot of the dual Dell display/Intuos 4 setup:

 

[MLeeK]

For my editing workstation I use a Dell Vostro 200 with an Intel dual core, 2.2 GHz processor w/4 GB of DD2 RAM, a 500 GB internal hard drive, and 2 TB of external storage partitioned as 4 - 500 GB drives.
I added a Radeon graphics card in the Vostro to facilitate a dual display setup, and allow enabeling of OpenGL in Photoshop

I used to edit on a Wacom Intuos 4 medium pen tablet with the image displayed on a Dell 22" IPS UltraSharp display, until I upgraded to a Wacom 21" Cintique pen display, and still use a Dell 19" TN display for my editing work pallets and desktop.

Here is a shot of the dual Dell display/Intuos 4 setup:

Did you find that you had to adjust the sharpness on your UltraSharp display? I have one and I have never been able to get the sharpness to show exactly what I print. Which is probably user error... I rarely use it for editing now, but I'd like some guidance in getting it set up to reflect the proper sharpness... It's a nice monitor that I could process on one computer as the other is running a batch...

 

[ghache]

My editing workstation is about 2 year old.

Intel i5 cpu pc
6 gig of ram
8 X 2tb of hard drives (3 internal data drive + 3 mirrored external drive for backup, 1 os hard drive and 1 external ghosted drive) (i am spycho about backups)
1 8tb media center for backup (3rd copy)
1gb bgp video card
2 X 23 inch IPS LCD photo monitor calibrated with color munki.

i run the lastest version of cs5 extended with all the plugins you can imagine, lightroom and portrait professional.

 

[Texas Parrothead]

Custom built desktop with a quad 3.4 AMD Phenom II Black Edition (haven't overclocked it....yet), Windows 7 64 bit, screaming video card (will be adding a 2nd card to run dual (I'm also a gamer)), 1 TB hard drive, 19 monitor. I push everything to a RAID1 box with (2) 2 TB drives for 3x redundant backup (1 copy on the desktop & 2 copies on the Raid 1). When I'm lazy I sit in my recliner and use an Asus laptop with an i5 and then push everything back wirelessly to the RAID1 when done for the night.

 

[Scuba]

15" MacBook Pro intel core 2 duo 2.5 ghz w/matte display, 6mb cache, 4 gigs ram, 250gb internal drive, external raid drive 500gb mirrored, 512mb dedicated GeForce 8600M GT graphics card. Runs everything I could ever want without any issues. Running CS5 and LR2 and it doesn't hesitate one bit.

 

[fotoshooter]

PCLinuxOS with Gimp, DigiKam, and RawStudio on the KDE desktop..

 

[valvestem]

I am using a Toshiba Satellite desktop replacement laptop with a 17.5" screen, 6G memory, Intel I7 processor. She's good.

 

[imagemaker46]

I use a desktop for gaming(Windows XP), I have a primary work/travel laptop(Windows 7) that has all the editing software, another laptop(XP) has my Nikon neg scanner. Portable hard drive for all the storage.

 

[marmots]

i use mac simply because it's much less of a hassle to run windows on it, than it is to run mac on windows
because i use a lot of software that's available only on windows, i have a separate drive with xp on it

and besides, if you look at EVERY SINGLE PART, not just the addons, a good mac is about the same as if not less than an equivalent pc, especially if looking at a graphics workstation

i tried pricing out a custom windows workstation not that long ago, and it was the same price as the fully completed mac pro i was looking at, without a monitor, a hardrive, or any ram.

 

[BlairWright]

I use an iMac 27 and a Dell XPS9100.

Normally it's the MAC but not all plugins work with the Mac so I still have a PC around for some plugins and serious number crunching...

 

[Village Idiot]

i use mac simply because it's much less of a hassle to run windows on it, than it is to run mac on windows
because i use a lot of software that's available only on windows, i have a separate drive with xp on it

and besides, if you look at EVERY SINGLE PART, not just the addons, a good mac is about the same as if not less than an equivalent pc, especially if looking at a graphics workstation

i tried pricing out a custom windows workstation not that long ago, and it was the same price as the fully completed mac pro i was looking at, without a monitor, a hardrive, or any ram.

And the point about building your own computer is that you can get killer performance for a good bit cheaper than a Mac because you're not required to purchase EVERY SINGLE PART that you don't need. Sure, it's tougher to get OS X to run on a non Apple machine, but I spent less than $1,700 on a computer that benchmarks faster than a $2,500 Mac Pro. I don't need an aluminum case (the tower that I purchased has 10 drive bays, BTW), a server grade processor, blue tooth, and all the other stuff. I just need raw power and if I wouldn't have spent over $500 on a GPU to game with, the price difference would have been even greater.

I can price out the parts for a wintel desktop that will outperform a Mac Pro without having the crazy price tag.

 

[Postman158]

I build my own... being a IT geek and all.

I7 Quad core 3.4
16 Gigabytes Ram
6 Terabytes of Raid 5 disk storage
256 Gigabyte Hi Speed SSD boot drive
Dual Nvidia 580 GTX Video cards (yes.. I game a little on it also)
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
Running on a single 27" 2ms .31 pixel LCD screen

It seems to run Photoshop just fine!

have three 2 terabyte externals I use to back up to also...

:O :thumbup:

 

[Postman158]

I'm glad I found this thread. I'm an Apple/Mac guy, but was seriously considering to build a PC because of the price difference. Nearly half the price can build you just as powerful a machine.

 

[StringThing]

I use my work PC and triple display (2-Samsung 226bw and 1-LG w2240T) during breaks in the madness to edit as much as possible. But sometimes I am forced to use my HP laptop with it's horribly aged display. I'm in the market for a new one, but I'm finding it difficult to find a 17" matte display for under $1700 CDN. Oh yeah, I want a Blu-Ray combo in it as well, which is driving the price up.