As a lifetime Windows user, I've slowly been migrating to Apple (iPhone and a company issued 2017 MBP). However, for the majority of my work, I use my PC to this day. My more intensive work is Lightroom and Photoshop. Aside from that, it's the typical browsing, watching movies etc.
I've been waiting patiently for the Mac Mini, but I'm hearing from people that it's not powerful enough.
To me, the iMac is too overdue for an update. The iMacPro is too pricey/overkill. The MacPro is also overdue and too pricey.
Would I get better performance out of a MBP essentially used as a docking station than I would with the Mac Mini? I'm thinking the Radeon Pro GPU that comes with the MBP can offload a lot of the processing that LR/PS need.
If I went the Mac Mini route I'm looking at:
3.2GHz 6-core 8th generation i7, 16GB 2666MHz DDR4, 256GB SSD ($1499)
If I went the MacBook Pro (2017) route I'm looking at:
2.8GHz Quad-core i7, 16GB 2133MHz, 256GB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 555(2GB) ($1899)
I've been waiting patiently for the Mac Mini, but I'm hearing from people that it's not powerful enough.
To me, the iMac is too overdue for an update. The iMacPro is too pricey/overkill. The MacPro is also overdue and too pricey.
Would I get better performance out of a MBP essentially used as a docking station than I would with the Mac Mini? I'm thinking the Radeon Pro GPU that comes with the MBP can offload a lot of the processing that LR/PS need.
If I went the Mac Mini route I'm looking at:
3.2GHz 6-core 8th generation i7, 16GB 2666MHz DDR4, 256GB SSD ($1499)
If I went the MacBook Pro (2017) route I'm looking at:
2.8GHz Quad-core i7, 16GB 2133MHz, 256GB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 555(2GB) ($1899)
