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fotoroad:
I am looking for update my ,,computer park,, and not sure what is better choice for future every day work, video and photo editing
I love know your opinion. I am PC user for many years.

Dell XPS Tower Special Edition /no monitor/
64GB, 2x32GB, DDR4, 2933Mhz

NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2070 SUPER™ 8GB GDDR6

2TB M.2 PCIe NVME SSD + 2TB SATA 7200RPM HDD

Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit, English

10th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-10900K processor(10-Core, 20M Cache, 3.7GHz to 5.3GHz)
 
$ 2, 800.00


or

IMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch

    3.2GHz 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz
    32GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
    Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5 memory
    1TB SSD storage
    Magic Mouse 2
    Magic Keyboard - US English
    Accessory Kit

Software

    Pages, Numbers, Keynote
    Photos, iMovie, GarageBand
    macOS
    Final Cut Pro X

 Around $ 3,200.00 with tax

Anyka:
I don't know anything about Macs, but I do know about windows computers designed for Adobe products.  I always have them built from scratch, and I follow Adobe's recommendations by the letter.  This means :
- 1 SSD for Windows + programs (C-drive) - 1 Tb is enough for that
- 1 SSD for editing work :  here you should put your SCRATCH disks on, preferably on a separate partition.  A 100Gb scratch disk for photoshop on a disk that is NOT your windows-drive speeds up all Adobe products that work with scratch disks.  The rest of this drive is for the files you are actually working on, so "work in progress".
- 1 HDD, a huge one, for storage of finished work.
- external disks for backup


This should be combined with a graphics card that is NOT on Adobe's blacklist.  With every new photoshop and LR release, the graphics card gets more important, so you should really check if you went for the right one.


This is just a summary, you should really read about the ideal configuration on the Adobe website.

SpaceStockFootage:
Your PC option looks good. Similar to my setup but I have the GTX 1070 and it's only 6 cores. If you're using Adobe products then in most cases you'll be better of with an NVIDIA card as well. Definitely agree on getting two SSD's at 1TB each. I'd hold out for the RTX 3070 as well... same price with better performance. Does seem quite expensive at $2,800 though (possibly the 10 core i9 is responsible for that!)... might be worth shopping around.

steheap:
I built one in the spring that is pretty close to your specs: https://backyardsilver.com/building-a-new-photo-and-video-pc/

Although it isn't clear in the article, I did put my programs on the C drive and put the scratch file area on a second M.2 SSD

I have my Lightroom catalog on the C drive - not sure that is the best place

Steve

Chichikov:
Mac Mini 
3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz)
RAM 16 GB (Even 32)
SSD 1 TB
$1700 (1900 with RAM 32 GB)

Monitor BenQ 2700 SW
$ 600 (Max)

+ Some external HDDs For Archive

It will cost you less that the iMac for very similar result
(Frankly a 4K monitor is not really necessary, it can even be counter
productive)

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