Hello,
I have a very peculiar problem. I am currently on my maxed-out (from back then) Unibody Macbook and have decided on an upgrade to a quad core.
I currently have to purchase a new battery for the Uni, a new pair of speakers 'cause these are blown, a fan cause this one goes up and down without notice, so I will do all this within a span of three to four months as the components are shipped and I install them. I will be using the Unibody asan MBA. I have currently installed 8Gigs of RAM and am in the process of acquiring a Crucial M4 SSD.
The issue is that, right now, and up until the next three years (or 4), I'm in India, and I need a home computer which should last another four years or more.
In India, all I can do is purchase the base model for all computers, so I can't max out stuff as I can do in the online store in the US.
I'm in a fix deciding between the 15 inch base 2.3gighz quad cMBP w/4gigs of RAM and the 27 inch iMac base with 512 graphics card. They are both exactly the same price here and I don't want to spend more on a computer.
These will be used at home 5-10 hours a day as I work from home many days of the week.
I can trick out the i7 MBP to 16Gigs/SSD but all I can do is Max out RAM in the iMac and I can't do ***** about the i5 or the 1TB drive; they stay.
Also, I think I'm being speculatative(?) here, but is the cMBP gonna be phased out this year?
Which do I go for, and why?
P.S.: I plan to buy over the weekend.
I have a very peculiar problem. I am currently on my maxed-out (from back then) Unibody Macbook and have decided on an upgrade to a quad core.
I currently have to purchase a new battery for the Uni, a new pair of speakers 'cause these are blown, a fan cause this one goes up and down without notice, so I will do all this within a span of three to four months as the components are shipped and I install them. I will be using the Unibody asan MBA. I have currently installed 8Gigs of RAM and am in the process of acquiring a Crucial M4 SSD.
The issue is that, right now, and up until the next three years (or 4), I'm in India, and I need a home computer which should last another four years or more.
In India, all I can do is purchase the base model for all computers, so I can't max out stuff as I can do in the online store in the US.
I'm in a fix deciding between the 15 inch base 2.3gighz quad cMBP w/4gigs of RAM and the 27 inch iMac base with 512 graphics card. They are both exactly the same price here and I don't want to spend more on a computer.
These will be used at home 5-10 hours a day as I work from home many days of the week.
I can trick out the i7 MBP to 16Gigs/SSD but all I can do is Max out RAM in the iMac and I can't do ***** about the i5 or the 1TB drive; they stay.
Also, I think I'm being speculatative(?) here, but is the cMBP gonna be phased out this year?
Which do I go for, and why?
P.S.: I plan to buy over the weekend.
