My apologies in advance if this is the wrong forums, but I didn't want to cross-post to the iPad and iMac and MacBook Air forums or anything weird like that...
I have an iPad Air 2 and it's quickly become my primary computing device (not counting my work Mac). I want to have at least a Mac at home and have a 2012 11" MacBook Air (2.0 i7/8GB/256GB) and will soon have a 2011 21.5" iMac (2.7 i5/8GB/256GB SSD) - it was a machine temporarily used by a family member in another state. I'm toying with the idea of selling the MacBook Air and using the iMac as my "heavier duty" computer and music/photo repository at home. I suspect the Air would be a bit easier to sell and ship, due to its small size.
I do realize the iMac is lacking USB 3 and Bluetooth 4, both of which aren't really dealbreakers for me and I'm not doing any sort of gaming, so either of those machines should be fine from a power standpoint (although I know the iMac is quite a bit faster as far as raw benchmarks are concerned).
Finally, the other thought would be to sell both and take the money and get a slightly higher-spec'd Mac mini.
I'm trying to consolidate my computing situation a bit and thought I'd bounce my ideas off the masses to see if there isn't something I hadn't thought of yet.
I have an iPad Air 2 and it's quickly become my primary computing device (not counting my work Mac). I want to have at least a Mac at home and have a 2012 11" MacBook Air (2.0 i7/8GB/256GB) and will soon have a 2011 21.5" iMac (2.7 i5/8GB/256GB SSD) - it was a machine temporarily used by a family member in another state. I'm toying with the idea of selling the MacBook Air and using the iMac as my "heavier duty" computer and music/photo repository at home. I suspect the Air would be a bit easier to sell and ship, due to its small size.
I do realize the iMac is lacking USB 3 and Bluetooth 4, both of which aren't really dealbreakers for me and I'm not doing any sort of gaming, so either of those machines should be fine from a power standpoint (although I know the iMac is quite a bit faster as far as raw benchmarks are concerned).
Finally, the other thought would be to sell both and take the money and get a slightly higher-spec'd Mac mini.
I'm trying to consolidate my computing situation a bit and thought I'd bounce my ideas off the masses to see if there isn't something I hadn't thought of yet.
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