Comments on: Mac Setups: iMac 27″ with a MacBook Air

By: 7

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:06:03 +0000

that’s the same set up that i am getting , the new iMacs are actually faster than the old mac pros

By: kruz8er

kruz8er — Sun, 15 May 2011 04:25:49 +0000

my set up is similar…. kinda. http://twitpic.com/4xpj4q

By: Yuck

Yuck — Sun, 15 May 2011 00:38:26 +0000

Please. Google Drobo and file/disk corruption. You’ll be reading for hours.

By: xf

xf — Sat, 14 May 2011 18:04:46 +0000

Great setup but other than minimalism aspect I do not see why to replace Mac Pro with iMac. Just opinion.

By: sault

sault — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:38:11 +0000

I don´t agree with you at all. ADrobo is a piece of fantastic stuff.

By: Yuck

Yuck — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:47:36 +0000

Nice setup, but a Drobo?!? Ahhh! Kill it! Get rid of it! It hurts my eyes!

Best way to ruin a good Mac setup -> plug in a Drobo.

By: Doctor K

Doctor K — Sat, 14 May 2011 12:41:53 +0000

Yes, I personally think it’s silly to replace a Mac Pro with an iMac, no matter how powerful the iMac can be. Benchmarks is not everything, you know. For a true professional it’s indispensable to be able to swap hard drives and GPUs in a second, or to have a well cooled tower that can work for months without shutting down, or 12TB of storage, to choose a display you like the best, and last but not the least to have one piece of equipment not assembled in China….

Those are all the benefits of a Mac Pro. iMac is a fashionable gadget designed for home users who would never choose a Mac Pro in the first place, let alone replace it with an iMac. Change (or a paradigm shift) will happen inevitably, but not in the next 5 or 6 years.

BTW anyone heard of the latest lame trick apple pulled on it’s customers? Proprietary temperature sensor and SATA conector in the latest iMacs. Tell me now how silly is to replace a Mac Pro for an iMac?