02-08-2013, 09:51 PM
tortoise wrote:
. . . Not to mention the superior cooling offered in the MacPro design. Comparison shows the iMacs just run hotter than the towers and while they assure us it is all OK, I have seen a lot more failures in the field with iMacs than with MacPros.
Agree; my 2009 iMac 27" i7 is a beautiful machine, but runs really hot, even though it's not doing any heavy lifting. Aside from running Windoze software on a Parallels virtual XP, I don't really do anything to justify all the power I've got.
But if Apple made a tower priced low enough I'd buy that plus a big monitor, just to have the access and expandability. I wouldn't attempt to pull off the glass to get at the innards of my iMac (not to mention the new ones with glued-in screens), and there's no room for anything in there anyway.
/Mr Lynn