Ok so my old buddy who is still sucking from Steve Jobs teat wants to upgrade his Macbook Pro 2007 core 2 duo, yes, C2duo machine to a new Mac. Well of course I tell him he should get a nice MacPro with 6 cores and a GTX680 mac edition card or a little i7 Mac mini with a HD4000 card if he really wants to cheap out.
So does CS4 use the Mercury Playback Engine that Adobe is always going on about, probaly not. So if he upgrades to CS6/ 7 what is the best cheap mac and expensive mac for him to get and what graphics cards do you suggest?
He can get a quad core i7 with and HD4000 card, SSD and 16gb ram for about $1400 or a MacPro, yes these are 3 years old with a nice GTX680 for about $3000. Of course the HD4000 is lame compared to the GTX680 but he's using a bloody C2duo so even the mini will be tons faster to this poor bugger!
Your comments folks and sure he could get an HP workstation he doesn't have an IT department to figure out all the windows stuff 
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