I'm having a hard time deciding between both as a mac mini + screen(not as good but larger) + egpu will cost just a bit more then the imac 21.5 2018 and I could get a much better GPU rather then the outdated radeon pro 560x.
I don't care that much for an apple keyboard and mouse ..
on the face of it - the mac mini makes much more sense , also its ram is upgradeable.
my main uses will be music production along with general computer use and some light Unity game development (2D mostly)
along with some gaming on bootcamp.
I know the imac 5k is even better for this but it has the same problem of having an outdated gpu (the base 580x) which I will be stock with.
if I take the i5 instead of the i9 its price is almost the same to the two option above .. but I will be getting a 6 core with higher single core speeds but lower multicore as it has no hyper threading but could be loaded with more ram.
also there is no sign of an Imac refresh coming anytime soon .. which would made things easier if they only bumped the gpu on the base models for a recent one.
I don't care that much for an apple keyboard and mouse ..
on the face of it - the mac mini makes much more sense , also its ram is upgradeable.
my main uses will be music production along with general computer use and some light Unity game development (2D mostly)
along with some gaming on bootcamp.
I know the imac 5k is even better for this but it has the same problem of having an outdated gpu (the base 580x) which I will be stock with.
if I take the i5 instead of the i9 its price is almost the same to the two option above .. but I will be getting a 6 core with higher single core speeds but lower multicore as it has no hyper threading but could be loaded with more ram.
also there is no sign of an Imac refresh coming anytime soon .. which would made things easier if they only bumped the gpu on the base models for a recent one.
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