What’s next?
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.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pmKate’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
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:59 pmIt’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.
June 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm