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<blockquote data-quote="MikeFromMesa" data-source="post: 1798393" data-attributes="member: 305741"><p>I suppose so, but this has turned out to be a more difficult decision than I expected it to be.</p><p></p><p>At first all I wanted was a faster computer. My Mini is fine for many of the things I do but is a true laggard when it comes to digital image processing and a recent test using some new resizing software from Topaz took an hour to upsize one image. One image, about 70 minutes.</p><p></p><p>I was fully prepared to buy either a used or refurbished Mac Pro, and some of the offerings at eBay that pigoo3 pointed me to were very temping, but then I began to think about the long term instead of the short term. I am not sure that any of the 2010 Towers will run the new OS and I am not sure that such old video cards are suitable for some of the new software. The processors, and their multi-processing capabilities, are probably fine, but the older memory chips were much slower than the new ones and I am not sure about the old video cards. I could replace them, but I would still be stuck with TB2 instead of TB3 and slower memory chips.</p><p></p><p>The choice seemed to come down to either $1500 for a 2013 Tower or twice that for one of the newer MacBook Pros. Surprising enough my wife seems to think that I should spend the extra money and get the new equipment rather than spend less and get the old stuff, probably because she knows me well enough to know that I will just end up wanting newer hardware in a year or two while a newer faster machine may be enough for 4-5 years.</p><p></p><p>I am pretty sure that I am convincing myself that it would be better to have a desktop/laptop that consisted of one machine and allow me to take my "desktop" with me when my wife and I travel. In any case I have decided that I will make a decision no later than Monday since we are traveling soon and I want this all done, delivered, set up and working before we leave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeFromMesa, post: 1798393, member: 305741"] I suppose so, but this has turned out to be a more difficult decision than I expected it to be. At first all I wanted was a faster computer. My Mini is fine for many of the things I do but is a true laggard when it comes to digital image processing and a recent test using some new resizing software from Topaz took an hour to upsize one image. One image, about 70 minutes. I was fully prepared to buy either a used or refurbished Mac Pro, and some of the offerings at eBay that pigoo3 pointed me to were very temping, but then I began to think about the long term instead of the short term. I am not sure that any of the 2010 Towers will run the new OS and I am not sure that such old video cards are suitable for some of the new software. The processors, and their multi-processing capabilities, are probably fine, but the older memory chips were much slower than the new ones and I am not sure about the old video cards. I could replace them, but I would still be stuck with TB2 instead of TB3 and slower memory chips. The choice seemed to come down to either $1500 for a 2013 Tower or twice that for one of the newer MacBook Pros. Surprising enough my wife seems to think that I should spend the extra money and get the new equipment rather than spend less and get the old stuff, probably because she knows me well enough to know that I will just end up wanting newer hardware in a year or two while a newer faster machine may be enough for 4-5 years. I am pretty sure that I am convincing myself that it would be better to have a desktop/laptop that consisted of one machine and allow me to take my "desktop" with me when my wife and I travel. In any case I have decided that I will make a decision no later than Monday since we are traveling soon and I want this all done, delivered, set up and working before we leave. [/QUOTE]
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