General Adobe power

[masonjphoto]

Hi so this is real dumb I am kinda new to learning about PC. I have always loved macs and been willing to stay with them but now want a desktop and i can buy all this nice stuff for the same price and have tons of power, i am willing to give up the airdrop, that was my main thing. I am in college and need something able to handle adobe programs better. I don't deal with to much video right now but i do stuff in lightroom, photoshop, illustrator, and indesigne and want to get into premiere later. My question is will building a video editing pc work well for all of this?

[Jurrunio]

if you're willing to use software available on Windows OS, it will do well. The problem of moving over is Mac OS only software, they are pretty good to begin with.

[masonjphoto]

yeah im willing to go to windows i grew up with my family on windows and also used mac i always just preferred it for the whole i could apple id sync stuff but i don't really use it that much i love analog things a lot anyways, i like list on paper better. i pay for everything in adobe anyways. I would also keep my macbook for basic lightroom stuff and travel. it has just started to feel the load from homework. how much would arr that stuff cost

 

[jsm36]

You will need CPU-Cores and RAM for Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator.

A SSD as your work-drive is also a thing I would recommend.

Everything else like Motherboard, Power-Supply, Case and so on can be mid- to low-end.

 

Personally I like a Keyboard with macro-keys, watch Taran's macro-king videos for more infos.

 

Go for a nice AMD CPU (maybe 6 Cores) with 16GB of RAM and an SSD that fits your needs.

Maybe add a mordern GPU, but thats optional and it don't has to be a high-end-model.

 

Go to any online-store, you will see the prices.

[kelvinhall05]

You could always consider a Hackintosh if you want more power but aren't quite ready to give up MacOS.