I’ve been back and forth on whether or not I’m going to leave the PC world in the dust and transfer everything over to a Mac in the near future. An avid mac-user friend of mine is trying to convince me to drop about $10,000 on a fully loaded Mac Pro with a 30-inch cinema display. I put that idea out of her head when I sent her a screen shot of the money in my bank account. Now she’s all up in arms about how a loaded iMac would do the same thing for me.
I’m upset to know that the 17-inch iMac can no longer be found anywhere (new at least). I guess I can deal with the now standard 20-inch iMac but this doesn’t mean there’s going to be enough room on my desk for it, considering there are two monitors there already. The base model is going to run me in the $1200 range. This is a lot better in regards to finances, but it also stems back to whether or not there’s going to be enough room on the desk.
Another option that I’ve been considering is the Mac Mini. I have a dual-monitor setup but when I’m actually at my desktop, I’m using one side specifically for design and the other monitor is basically used for everything else. So the only real change here is the fact that I’m going to be switching back and forth between keyboards. With the wireless keyboard option, I can just store them away whenever I’m not using it so I can just go back to it later.
The final option, and this one hurts the most because of how hard I worked for it, but getting rid of my HP DV5000 laptop and purchasing a Macbook. It’s a leap for me considering I’d be losing 2.4-inches of viewing space but what I like about the Macbooks is that no matter which model you get – 1GB of ram comes standard with all of their systems.
So here’s my question –
You have a $1500 budget and you’re considering switching over to a Mac. Would you get an iMac, Mac Mini or Macbook? And why?
DAMN! I’d have to be super rich to want to spend 10 grand on a computer – even though I’m sure it’s a totally awesome set-up!
Ooh you’re in a tricky spot.. I don’t know what I’d do. I’ve looked at Mac’s & they’re pretty cool, but I’m quite happy with PC’s as I know them. who can be bothered to learn a new system? (even though it’s probably not too tricky).
I don’t really know anything about Macs, but I’d probably pic the Mac mini, it sounds cute.
Can you access my website? I can’t. I think I’ve been hacked or it’s down or something really unexciting & dumb that I did to break it! 🙂
I have a MacBookPro. It’s awesome; I love it.
But I suggest you go for the iMac or Mac Mini because I know how hard you worked for your laptop too. You’re going to need a PC to test on, so if that’s your best PC, you shouldn’t be replacing it.
Whatever you end up with, I’m so glad you’re deciding to switch to Mac! 😀 ♥
Stacee – Both my desktop and my laptop are equally stable. I’ve just been using my laptop more due to the fact that the office is a wreck and in our new place there isn’t going to be a lot of room to really sit down and concentrate, even if we knock the wall out to open up the floor plan. But yea, going towards an iMac was something I was leaning towards. I do have a few questions about the networking options but I’ll get you over email for that one.
Bronnie – She does have a lot of money so dropping $10k on a setup isn’t such a big deal to her. I’d love to have a job like her where I’m talented enough to be bringing in like $250k a year, but that was the road she was supposed to be on, not me. In regards to learning the system, I already know how to use a Mac so it isn’t a big jump for me. It’s just the sake of which one to invest in that’s the tricky part.
And Bronnie, your site is loading fine for me – I was noticing an issue with your feeds though. I’ll shoot you an email so we can work on it.