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- Your Mac's Specs
- 2010 MBP 13" <3
I'm a PC user and have been my entire life, I owned a MBP a few years ago but sold it after 6 months , my personal opinion at the time was that windows 7 is a lot better than OSX and my desktop PC was a lot more powerful.
I'm now going to start developing iOS apps, learning Objective C - I have experience in C# and C++ so it's not completely alien. But I need something that I can use xCode on
I'm torn between the three available models, MBP, Mac mini and an iMac, reasons as follows;
• I don't really want to be confined to a desk, and have wanted a new laptop for a while, which sways me towards the MBP. But I have an iPad for sofa surfing and if I got an MBP then I would probably get the 13" and I'm not really sure that Ill have enough desktop real estate to do what I want to do. Plus the MBP 13" are only dual core.
• I love the looks of the iMac and they are quad core, again will 22" of screen be enough? Maybe. Plus everyone wants a new iMac in their living room. It will also mean that I'll be having two relatively large monitors in my front room (I use my PC still for downloading and playing the occasional game of DOTA, although the iMac has a dedicated graphics card, I could play dota on that). Does the iMac have a video input at all so I can use it as a monitor for my PC?
• Finally the Mac mini, which seems to be the best choice for me at the moment. It's quad core, tiny, efficient, will give me everything that the iMac will excluding the dedicated graphics card. If I was to get the 27" Cinema Display then I could connect my PC and Mac to the same monitor (but I'd have to use the **** Mac keyboard for my PC).
So I'm really torn between them all, the Mac mini solution seems the best choice so I can run it parallel with my PC, although if I bought the iMac I could play DOTA on it still and just get a download box instead of using my PC. Then again, I can't upgrade the screen size on the 21.5"Mac if I decided I wanted something bigger. Help!
I'm now going to start developing iOS apps, learning Objective C - I have experience in C# and C++ so it's not completely alien. But I need something that I can use xCode on
I'm torn between the three available models, MBP, Mac mini and an iMac, reasons as follows;
• I don't really want to be confined to a desk, and have wanted a new laptop for a while, which sways me towards the MBP. But I have an iPad for sofa surfing and if I got an MBP then I would probably get the 13" and I'm not really sure that Ill have enough desktop real estate to do what I want to do. Plus the MBP 13" are only dual core.
• I love the looks of the iMac and they are quad core, again will 22" of screen be enough? Maybe. Plus everyone wants a new iMac in their living room. It will also mean that I'll be having two relatively large monitors in my front room (I use my PC still for downloading and playing the occasional game of DOTA, although the iMac has a dedicated graphics card, I could play dota on that). Does the iMac have a video input at all so I can use it as a monitor for my PC?
• Finally the Mac mini, which seems to be the best choice for me at the moment. It's quad core, tiny, efficient, will give me everything that the iMac will excluding the dedicated graphics card. If I was to get the 27" Cinema Display then I could connect my PC and Mac to the same monitor (but I'd have to use the **** Mac keyboard for my PC).
So I'm really torn between them all, the Mac mini solution seems the best choice so I can run it parallel with my PC, although if I bought the iMac I could play DOTA on it still and just get a download box instead of using my PC. Then again, I can't upgrade the screen size on the 21.5"Mac if I decided I wanted something bigger. Help!