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<blockquote data-quote="Vagrant" data-source="post: 1511777" data-attributes="member: 17009"><p>The problems with the iMacs boils down to the ability to repair and expand them. On the 21" the RAM is soldered in. Yes, Applecare will cover the RAM but that's only for three years and that's also a trip to Apple to fix something I could do in less than a minute. It's ridiculous to replace a hard drive on either one of them and that is something that definitely will fail. Speaking of storage the options are HDD or Fusion. I want SSD all the way not a half-way approach. The i7 is yet another upcharge when it should be standard. Finally the non-upgradeable mobile GPUs. With Photoshop and Premiere able to leverage the GPU so much I want it to be full-size in a desktop and be able to upgrade it. Honestly this hasn't worked out very well in practice on the Mac Pro either. It's there, it can be replaced, but not with anything all that great. Macs have by and large never been all that easy to work on when needed but in the past two years Apple has pretty much been saying to me that these machines more or less have a built-in expiration date. Are the iMacs powerful enough? For now more than likely but I would like more peace of mind where longevity is concerned for that coin.</p><p></p><p>I should note that if it were a business machine that I had a large return on then I wouldn't care about replacing the machine every couple years but as of right now they don't pay for themselves so I want to get the longest possible lifespan from them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vagrant, post: 1511777, member: 17009"] The problems with the iMacs boils down to the ability to repair and expand them. On the 21" the RAM is soldered in. Yes, Applecare will cover the RAM but that's only for three years and that's also a trip to Apple to fix something I could do in less than a minute. It's ridiculous to replace a hard drive on either one of them and that is something that definitely will fail. Speaking of storage the options are HDD or Fusion. I want SSD all the way not a half-way approach. The i7 is yet another upcharge when it should be standard. Finally the non-upgradeable mobile GPUs. With Photoshop and Premiere able to leverage the GPU so much I want it to be full-size in a desktop and be able to upgrade it. Honestly this hasn't worked out very well in practice on the Mac Pro either. It's there, it can be replaced, but not with anything all that great. Macs have by and large never been all that easy to work on when needed but in the past two years Apple has pretty much been saying to me that these machines more or less have a built-in expiration date. Are the iMacs powerful enough? For now more than likely but I would like more peace of mind where longevity is concerned for that coin. I should note that if it were a business machine that I had a large return on then I wouldn't care about replacing the machine every couple years but as of right now they don't pay for themselves so I want to get the longest possible lifespan from them. [/QUOTE]
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