I haven’t bought a pre-made computer in more than 10 years. I think I have finally gotten to a point where I don’t want to muck around with commodity computer hardware. It’s time to buy a pre-made machine. I use a wide variety of operating systems at home and at work. The idea of a virtual desktop is very appealing to me…. a single machine where I can have windows, bsd, linux, and mac os x would be great. I’ve done some research on “hackintosh” and to be honest… for the first time… it’s a diy project I don’t want to do. So I’ve pretty much decided that I need to buy a mac and a copy of parallels. Now what kind of mac do I want? Macbook pro, Mac pro, or an iMac?
Mac pro is just way too much money but upgrading would be easy.
iMac is a pretty closed device where replacing common things like hard disks could be a project… but the screen is so nice!
Macbook Pro would be pretty awesome but lacks some of the power I would like for virtualization.
It looks more and more that I should just get an iMac and stfu. Maybe I’ll get one…
How isn’t a Macbook Pro good for virtualization? It has a 7200 RPM drive in it. An iMac, I believe, is just glorified MacBook hardware too.
Kate’s been running that model iMac for a few months now and it rocks. It’s vid card is better than my MacBook Pro, I think it’s bus speed is better if I recall, and it’s not quite so packed into the case so it actually is a lot easier to mod than the laptop. Still, if I had the cash I’d love to be on a Mac Pro tower
It’s a toss up man. Macbook and imac are essentially the same, imac is cheaper.. notebook is portable. Mac pro tower is way too expensive… but seems like the only real option.