Hey everyone,
I'm a photographer www.lamodastudio.com I process around 2500 high res images per job, and would love to build a workhorse machine. Can anyone provide a recommended list of parts. Also hoe do I install os x and how do I deal with updates?
Thank in advance for all your help.

Joe

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...&pid=940826

should work for your needs as well

If you are working in photography and processing that many photos, I would recommend something a bit more. Especially now that CS4 take advantage of GPUs the way it does. Also RAW imagery is a resource hog, memory is you good friend and it is cheap right now.

GA-EP45-DS3R
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz
NVIDIA 9800GTX+
16GB of RAM (16GB is ~$400 right now!!)
700W Power Supply
Antec Sonata Case
640GB Hard Drive
2x 1TB Internal Drives
Pioneer DVR-216 DVD-R Drive

~ $1700 (Newegg pricing USD)

mac pro quad ,...

get a used one, upgrade,

since you will rely on it, you don't want to end up with a unusable machine, just because the assistant,
did not know any better than click ok, for the update,....

also some of the RAW updates will rely on os updates,...

for jpeg's, you'd be fine with a dual core, imac,... thought youd'd might want a better monitor for calibration,....
in any case, you'd want a raid setup (firewire is fine), for the temporary crunch,.... speed and backup

for raw and sheer power,... bibble pro, with an raptors , 3GHz+ screams,
for really fast , a U320 15k raid 10, or sas , on 8 core,....

in any case, you should have , one fully supported machine,....

I can run all the updates on my Hack, and I have all the raw updates. Do a retail install and you will have less issue with updates than if you do a pre packaged install. I agree with rschultz101 storage is key and fast hard drives help. Drobo makes a great stand alone storage unit that works well with Mac OS.

is this a kind of competition ??

Thanks for all the great suggestions! I always take photos in raw, so speed is very important tome.