Mac Pro to iMac and regret it or love it?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

mrlynn wrote:
But if Apple made a tower priced low enough I'd buy that plus a big monitor, just to have the access and expandability.

+1000

[sekker]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=mrlynn]
But if Apple made a tower priced low enough I'd buy that plus a big monitor, just to have the access and expandability.

+1000 Ditto

I did build a quad core hackintosh a couple years ago for a video editing station. Worked great. Back then, $1200 gave you a machine close to the highest Mac Pros.

We finished that project and turned it into a server box. Sad given the GPUs, but I'll port those later.

I think you are bonkers going with the 2013 iMacs. They are toys - flashy machines hat look good and run fine, but you can make something amazing yourself for less.

[Chakravartin]

sekker wrote:
I think you are bonkers going with the 2013 iMacs. They are toys - flashy machines hat look good and run fine, but you can make something amazing yourself for less.

The 27-inch offers a great experience. Fast, takes lots of RAM, big screen -- far less reflective than the old iMacs, impressively skinny. Toss in a Fusion drive and you'll almost certainly have an excellent experience during the 3-4 years of productive life a workstation gets in the corporate graphics world.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=sekker]
I think you are bonkers going with the 2013 iMacs. They are toys - flashy machines hat look good and run fine, but you can make something amazing yourself for less.

The 27-inch offers a great experience. Fast, takes lots of RAM, big screen -- far less reflective than the old iMacs, impressively skinny. Toss in a Fusion drive and you'll almost certainly have an excellent experience during the 3-4 years of productive life a workstation gets in the corporate graphics world.
If only it would run Snow Leopard!

[sekker]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=sekker]
I think you are bonkers going with the 2013 iMacs. They are toys - flashy machines hat look good and run fine, but you can make something amazing yourself for less.

The 27-inch offers a great experience. Fast, takes lots of RAM, big screen -- far less reflective than the old iMacs, impressively skinny. Toss in a Fusion drive and you'll almost certainly have an excellent experience during the 3-4 years of productive life a workstation gets in the corporate graphics world.
The $$ you save, you can buy two 512 GB SSDs and RAID. Better than a fusion drive.

We just purchased a beautiful 27 inch monitor - for $600.

If you are doing video, an old-fashioned desktop is a better deal. Yes, less elegant. But when you need a truck, you don't want a glossy pickup.

[Chakravartin]

sekker wrote:
[quote=Chakravartin]
[quote=sekker]
I think you are bonkers going with the 2013 iMacs. They are toys - flashy machines hat look good and run fine, but you can make something amazing yourself for less.

The 27-inch offers a great experience. Fast, takes lots of RAM, big screen -- far less reflective than the old iMacs, impressively skinny. Toss in a Fusion drive and you'll almost certainly have an excellent experience during the 3-4 years of productive life a workstation gets in the corporate graphics world.
The $$ you save, you can buy two 512 GB SSDs and RAID. Better than a fusion drive.

We just purchased a beautiful 27 inch monitor - for $600.

If you are doing video, an old-fashioned desktop is a better deal. Yes, less elegant. But when you need a truck, you don't want a glossy pickup.
So, you'd advise professionals to go with hackintoshes or Windows PCs.

Gotcha.

Remind me, please: Why are you posting in a Mac forum?