Quick bit of advice needed please guys.

 

I have spent the last several months scrutinising numerous books on coding and web design and I now would like to take things further by developing a portfolio to showcase my shiny new skills.

 

I have an old Dell precision M50 laptop on its last legs running on XP with Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash MX, Photoshop CS2 & Adobe Illustrator CS. I have been using this machine to practise and experiment.

I would look to buy a new one in the future for about £700-£800.

 

However, stored away collecting dust I have an Apple Powermac G5 1.8 Dual desktop machine. This is not an intel machine so it would provide more testing problems for my pages.

This machine has Photoshop, Illustrator but no Dreamweaver etc.

I have learnt to hand code so have become accustomed to using Dreamweaver code view and would prefer to use this than wordpad etc so I would consider buying this for the mac if i chose this option.

 

What would you guys do in my position? It seems a waste that the mac would go to waste through its lack of use. ( I have had it from new for over 3 years & its had about 6 months of use). I have considered selling it but due to its age ( and clumsy removal men damaging the casing) but i think i could gain more from keeping it than selling it.

 

Many thanks for your help

Definitely use the mac!

You don't have to shell out for dreamweaver just for a nice code view, check out coda !

Go with what you prefer in terms of usability. You don't have to have all the top end products to be a great designer as it isn't the software, or the hardware that makes a good designer (no matter what mac and adobe fanboys and girls say).

 

 

So use the best one for you and the one you like most