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<blockquote data-quote="the8thark" data-source="post: 1126671" data-attributes="member: 26315"><p>Well the Mac Pro base model is over 2x more expensive then the base model imac. SO that's a big consideration. Sure the imac is not really upgradable. But at half the cost you can just get a new imac in a few years time and sell off the old one to recoup a little of the cost. imacs tend to keep their resale value rather well.</p><p></p><p>And secondly the Mac Pro is pretty much overkill for 99% of people. Even for light-moderate video editing I'd still recommend the imac. Unless you are wanting to push 6-12 cores (even more with virtual cores) to the absolute max (which is pretty hard to do I must admit) I'd not bother. It's just not worth the money.</p><p></p><p>I'd just look at the prices and get the imac with the specs you need and in a few years sell and buy new. It will handle most video editing tasks well. And in a few years you might not end up selling the imac, you might just keep it if it does your tasks well. I wanted to sell my imac and get a new but the one I have still does everything I want ti to do (almost 5 years old now) so no need to upgrade for me.</p><p></p><p>In short the Mac Pro is great, and probably the best option. But for that kind of money you're should not be paying for cores left sitting idle cause you can't do tasks that make them all tick over. That's just silly. And for RAM. The imacs these days can handle 8-16 GB max depending on the imac you get. And that should be heaps for pretty much everything.</p><p></p><p>Sure in the imacs if the screen goes you're without a computer. But to me that's a very rare thing. In my life I've only ever owned all in one computers and every time in the Apple ones the hard drive or CD/DVD drives died in them, the screens were just fine. But if you're worried there's always apple care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="the8thark, post: 1126671, member: 26315"] Well the Mac Pro base model is over 2x more expensive then the base model imac. SO that's a big consideration. Sure the imac is not really upgradable. But at half the cost you can just get a new imac in a few years time and sell off the old one to recoup a little of the cost. imacs tend to keep their resale value rather well. And secondly the Mac Pro is pretty much overkill for 99% of people. Even for light-moderate video editing I'd still recommend the imac. Unless you are wanting to push 6-12 cores (even more with virtual cores) to the absolute max (which is pretty hard to do I must admit) I'd not bother. It's just not worth the money. I'd just look at the prices and get the imac with the specs you need and in a few years sell and buy new. It will handle most video editing tasks well. And in a few years you might not end up selling the imac, you might just keep it if it does your tasks well. I wanted to sell my imac and get a new but the one I have still does everything I want ti to do (almost 5 years old now) so no need to upgrade for me. In short the Mac Pro is great, and probably the best option. But for that kind of money you're should not be paying for cores left sitting idle cause you can't do tasks that make them all tick over. That's just silly. And for RAM. The imacs these days can handle 8-16 GB max depending on the imac you get. And that should be heaps for pretty much everything. Sure in the imacs if the screen goes you're without a computer. But to me that's a very rare thing. In my life I've only ever owned all in one computers and every time in the Apple ones the hard drive or CD/DVD drives died in them, the screens were just fine. But if you're worried there's always apple care. [/QUOTE]
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