iMac or Mac Pro?
mrgan compares his iMac with his wife’s Mac Pro:
Marco compares his Mac Pro with his wife’s iMac:
While the Mac Pro costs a lot more up front, high-performance users also get a lot more value and versatility over its lifespan, which is likely to be much longer and end much more gracefully.[…]
I have no major complaints about my computer. It’s the best Mac I’ve ever had. I may replace it with a swanky new MacBook Air if they’re as cool as I’ve heard - just to live the laptop lifestyle again. I don’t see myself buying a Mac Pro for any reason.
My turn.
I’m a student in Software Engineering, which means I need to work both at school and at home with various OSes, thus my setup of choice is a two-year old 13” unibody MacBook (now called the MacBook Pro), a five-year old 22” Samsung screen, an Apple Wireless Keyboard, a Magic Mouse and a simple Logitech Alto stand.
Pretty cheap comparing to a 15” MacBook Pro, it allows me to be mobile while having a great desktop configuration with two monitors.
I have 4GB of RAM, which is enough for running two or three Windows XP virtual machines at the same time, but I’ll buy an SSD soon. I really don’t need more computing power: Rails programming, iPhoto, TV shows… When I’ll buy the SSD, I don’t see why I should change my MacBook for another two or three years. Then, I’ll probably won’t need a laptop anymore, and I’ll happily switch for a 27” iMac and an iPad.
