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<blockquote data-quote="MikeFromMesa" data-source="post: 1798251" data-attributes="member: 305741"><p>I think so. </p><p></p><p>As you know I have been going around and around trying to figure out what machine to get, but in the end most of my interim choices did not turn out to be viable. The Mac Pro's technology is just too old at 5 years, there is no new Mac Mini that is any more powerful than I already have and the iMacs, as tempting as they are, are just not viable given the glossy screen and the large footprint. All that is left is the MacBook Pro.</p><p></p><p>On the positive side of the new MBPs are the facts that they now support 32GB of memory and have the new 6 core i7 and i9 chips, and ssds up to 512GB are no longer impossibly expensive. The GeekBench figures for them are about 3 times those for my Mini and I have gotten really tired of how long photo processing using my Mini has been taking. Dxo's PhotoLab took almost 1 1/2 minutes to process 2 noisy photos and that means that processing images after we return from a trip is a multi-day affair. On top of that there is the fact that I could just pick up the MBP when my wife and I travel and use it instead of having to have a clone machine like my current MacBook Air.</p><p></p><p>On the negative side the new MBPs are a bit pricey with a 32GB i7 machine running about $3200, and that is the price of the Mac Pros, but I have no idea when the new Mac pros will be released, what their specs will be or how much they will cost when they are available.</p><p></p><p>I had thought about just using my wife's MBP since she has shown no interest in it since I bought it last January and it has just gathered dust, but yesterday, just as I was thinking using her machine was my best option, she told me she was ready to start using it. Of course that just figures ...</p><p></p><p>Given all of that it looks like I will be ordering a MacBook Pro as my new "desktop", although I have been trying to settle some questions first since I have never try to use a MBP in clamshell mode and I am not sure what I have to do to get it to automatically find an external monitor. I don't much care for the new keyboards, but 95% of the time I would be using an external Apple BT keyboard so that really is a small issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeFromMesa, post: 1798251, member: 305741"] I think so. As you know I have been going around and around trying to figure out what machine to get, but in the end most of my interim choices did not turn out to be viable. The Mac Pro's technology is just too old at 5 years, there is no new Mac Mini that is any more powerful than I already have and the iMacs, as tempting as they are, are just not viable given the glossy screen and the large footprint. All that is left is the MacBook Pro. On the positive side of the new MBPs are the facts that they now support 32GB of memory and have the new 6 core i7 and i9 chips, and ssds up to 512GB are no longer impossibly expensive. The GeekBench figures for them are about 3 times those for my Mini and I have gotten really tired of how long photo processing using my Mini has been taking. Dxo's PhotoLab took almost 1 1/2 minutes to process 2 noisy photos and that means that processing images after we return from a trip is a multi-day affair. On top of that there is the fact that I could just pick up the MBP when my wife and I travel and use it instead of having to have a clone machine like my current MacBook Air. On the negative side the new MBPs are a bit pricey with a 32GB i7 machine running about $3200, and that is the price of the Mac Pros, but I have no idea when the new Mac pros will be released, what their specs will be or how much they will cost when they are available. I had thought about just using my wife's MBP since she has shown no interest in it since I bought it last January and it has just gathered dust, but yesterday, just as I was thinking using her machine was my best option, she told me she was ready to start using it. Of course that just figures ... Given all of that it looks like I will be ordering a MacBook Pro as my new "desktop", although I have been trying to settle some questions first since I have never try to use a MBP in clamshell mode and I am not sure what I have to do to get it to automatically find an external monitor. I don't much care for the new keyboards, but 95% of the time I would be using an external Apple BT keyboard so that really is a small issue. [/QUOTE]
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