iMac vs Mac Pro
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- Bullitt0
sorry...look... here it is... I don't smoke crack... but I'm mighty drunk tonight, just found out my wife's pregnant. Now Someone pass the crack pipe
- Since you'll soon have a baby to pay for you may want to skip the Pro and 30" screen. Consider a 13" Macbook.Josev
- btw, Congrats!Josev
- anyone interested in buying a macbook pro and 30" screen?Bullitt
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- juskin0
here is the thing I had a 2.8 "extreme" imac that came out in late 07 worked fine up until this last summer when the firewire went out(750 to repair) then the hard drive took a dump(not an imac faulty thing just weird that right at the 2 year mark??!!) I had a friends screen go out in his imac( he was smart and bought apple care) I dont think a screen right next to the motherboard is the greatest design, it would get really hot, I dont know, if your on a budget GET APPLECARE WITH IT, I just recently upgraded to a mac pro, let me just say, 4 hard drive bays, ram that can go 16gb, I would take a mac pro over a imac any day, can you ever have too much computing power?
- juskin0
oh and go to macconection there cheaper, no tax and fee shipping... cant beat that!
- pillhead0
Are we taking about Porn & Sluts?
- lobstarr0
SSD will get you better performance then the price difference of a iMac <--> MBP whichever you choose.
Take it from Scott Hansen if you don't believe me, afterall, the guy deals with massive files day in day out.
- lobstarr0
Oh and if you have do get the iMac, room for raid:
- juskin0
SSD still has a way to go, alot of failures going on, eventually it clogs down and you can forget about retrieving data after a crash...
- arterie0
Go with an iMac - love mine. . . . would buy another one again.
- lobstarr0
juskin,
It's not as bad as you say. Failures have been resolved with the latest firmware updates. Plenty of support (at least over on the OCZ forums), plus three year warranty.
Regardless if you use the SSD for data storage or a system drive, there's this thing called imaging. And btw, crashes are prominent in any storage device regardless of tech these days. So yea, unless you don't know what your doing, then yes, forget about retrieving data after a crash, but I mean this applies to everyone who always should have a backup regardless of the tech.