iMac or Mac Pro?
Today’s overdue Mac Pro update is a welcome change, but for a computer that’s so expensive, why not just get an iMac?
This is exactly the question I faced when upgrading to my current computer, a low specced 27” iMac. Three things weighed most heavily into my decision:
- A lowest end Mac Pro plus a cinema display is way more expensive than a lowest end iMac. The higher the specs on each model the lower the margin but I have no need for extreme performance.
- Six months ago you couldn’t buy a 27” LED display outside of an iMac.
- Unlike previous generation iMacs and thanks to the wonders of DisplayPort I can use use the iMac’s display as an external display for a Mac Pro in the future.
So come 6 or 12 months when my low specced iMac starts to feel unbearably slow I’ll buy a Mac Pro and reap the benefits Marco lists while keeping the most valuable part of the iMac. There’ll be a computer sitting on the back of the iMac not doing anything but that’s a small write off.
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