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- Location
- Surrey or Sheffield, UK.. or I might even be in Aa
- Your Mac's Specs
- iMac 24" (mid-2009 edition), 2.66Ghz, 4GB, 640GB HDD
Hey peeps Been the proud owner of an MBP for a few months now and I love it. I have a slight dilemma though; I'm off to university in September and I'm not sure how to do things, computer wise.
I also have a desktop PC which is a hefty beast (512MB Graphics for instance) and a lot of wiring of course.
I'm inclined to either..
1. Just take the MBP.
2. Take the MBP and PC.
3. Take the MBP and get an iMac.
The laptop comes no matter what - the flexibility of being portable will come in handy for sure.
My course is also 50% placements - I could be living away from my 'home' base for a few weeks, again, laptop wins here.
But when I am at 'home' (my new home, that is), I like to work on a desktop. And play on a desktop. ^^
I guess I'm just asking if you think it would be excessive to get an iMac too? At the moment I'm working full time so putting plenty of money away; I'm also not a huge partyer or a drinker so I will be spending money 'wisely' when at uni. I'll wait till the Summer to buy if I do; get the latest revision and edu discount.
I'm thinking it'd be really easy to sync up with iDisk (I have .Mac at the moment) and all that in terms of being away from the iMac...
The only things in favour of the PC coming are money, ie. not needing to spend on a new system, and the PC has a 512MB Graphics card which probably will see better FPS on WoW which is the only game I play.
The PC doesn't have Microsoft Office though either which I will need, so I'd need to buy that on either machine.
I also have a desktop PC which is a hefty beast (512MB Graphics for instance) and a lot of wiring of course.
I'm inclined to either..
1. Just take the MBP.
2. Take the MBP and PC.
3. Take the MBP and get an iMac.
The laptop comes no matter what - the flexibility of being portable will come in handy for sure.
My course is also 50% placements - I could be living away from my 'home' base for a few weeks, again, laptop wins here.
But when I am at 'home' (my new home, that is), I like to work on a desktop. And play on a desktop. ^^
I guess I'm just asking if you think it would be excessive to get an iMac too? At the moment I'm working full time so putting plenty of money away; I'm also not a huge partyer or a drinker so I will be spending money 'wisely' when at uni. I'll wait till the Summer to buy if I do; get the latest revision and edu discount.
I'm thinking it'd be really easy to sync up with iDisk (I have .Mac at the moment) and all that in terms of being away from the iMac...
The only things in favour of the PC coming are money, ie. not needing to spend on a new system, and the PC has a 512MB Graphics card which probably will see better FPS on WoW which is the only game I play.
The PC doesn't have Microsoft Office though either which I will need, so I'd need to buy that on either machine.