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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 290869" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>NMike, for your desktop, I would recommend the 24" iMac. Get the 2.33 GHz version, which has plenty of umphh. The Mac Pro would be faster, but only noticeably so if you went for the 3.0 GHz version, which is CONSIDERABLY more money than the "standard" 2.66 GHz version. I would consider the 3.00 GHz Mac Pro to be prohibitively expensive for most folks... and you have to then buy a monitor to go with it! </p><p></p><p>For about $2500 you can pick up a 24" iMac with 2GB or RAM. This is a fast, beefy machine with a HUGE display. I am guessing that you can't go to your nearest Apple store (an ocean away), but you don't really appreciate how big that display is until you sit in front of one. It is wonderful. </p><p></p><p>If you consider then that your choices are a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro, plus a monitor, for about $4000, or a 2.33 GHz 24" iMac for about $2500, and consider that minor 0.33 GHz difference in speed, the decision would seem to be obvious. I know that I am making the leap to saying that a GHz on a Mac Pro is the same as a GHz on an iMac, and they ARE different chips, but all the performance tests I have seen would seem to bear this out.</p><p></p><p>If you are wondering why I haven't followed my own advise, I bought my current PowerMac G5 before the 24" iMac came out - if it was available when I was making my purchase decision, I would be driving one right now. As it is, a 2.3 GHz PowerMac G5 is about the same in raw power as a 2.33 GHz iMac, so there is now no advantage except the larger monitor to moving to a 24" iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 290869, member: 17052"] NMike, for your desktop, I would recommend the 24" iMac. Get the 2.33 GHz version, which has plenty of umphh. The Mac Pro would be faster, but only noticeably so if you went for the 3.0 GHz version, which is CONSIDERABLY more money than the "standard" 2.66 GHz version. I would consider the 3.00 GHz Mac Pro to be prohibitively expensive for most folks... and you have to then buy a monitor to go with it! For about $2500 you can pick up a 24" iMac with 2GB or RAM. This is a fast, beefy machine with a HUGE display. I am guessing that you can't go to your nearest Apple store (an ocean away), but you don't really appreciate how big that display is until you sit in front of one. It is wonderful. If you consider then that your choices are a 2.66 GHz Mac Pro, plus a monitor, for about $4000, or a 2.33 GHz 24" iMac for about $2500, and consider that minor 0.33 GHz difference in speed, the decision would seem to be obvious. I know that I am making the leap to saying that a GHz on a Mac Pro is the same as a GHz on an iMac, and they ARE different chips, but all the performance tests I have seen would seem to bear this out. If you are wondering why I haven't followed my own advise, I bought my current PowerMac G5 before the 24" iMac came out - if it was available when I was making my purchase decision, I would be driving one right now. As it is, a 2.3 GHz PowerMac G5 is about the same in raw power as a 2.33 GHz iMac, so there is now no advantage except the larger monitor to moving to a 24" iMac. [/QUOTE]
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