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MBP or iMac?

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shanshor

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As my 8th grade graduation nears, I can either get a 24" 2.4 ghz iMac or a baseline MBP. Which do u recommend?

PS. I have never owned a mac and I plan to use it for my music games pigs and video. But no major editing.
 
Get an iMac that'll last you til at least college. Then, I'd recommend getting an MBP for taking to lectures. Portability wins in college.
 
wow wish i got a computer when i 'graduated' (ha) 8th grade.

go with the mbp. yeah its way more than you need, but the portability is always great.
 
shanshor said:
As my 8th grade graduation nears, I can either get a 24" 2.4 ghz iMac or a baseline MBP. Which do u recommend?

PS. I have never owned a mac and I plan to use it for my music games pigs and video. But no major editing.
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I would suggest to go for macbook pro, You can use it wherever you want. 24" Imac will defiantly give you power boost but you will stick with it for home use only.

Still it depends on personal choice, if I had a choice like you I would go for Macbook Pro.
 
Well I have to get something, my pc is dying on me LOL its 5 yrs old
 
macbook pro will easily last through at least part of college, maybe the whole thing if all you need it for is word processing, excel, some light programming etc.
 
I would much rather have a MBP if having to choose between the two. I love having the option to do whatever I want where I want and not having to wait until I'm home.
 
WTF OMFG LOLERSKATES ROFLCOPTER.

8th grade graduation? Wow.

MB or iMac for now. Get a MBP for college. Also I hope you are over 13....
 
MacBook Pro. The portability is much more important than the extra juice and REALLY big screen. You can always buy a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. and create a desktop situation. That's what I've done.
 
Michael CM1 said:
MacBook Pro. The portability is much more important than the extra juice and REALLY big screen. You can always buy a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. and create a desktop situation. That's what I've done.
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OP is going to high school. He/she shouldn't have time to create a desktop environment with MBP. Too much effort to disconnect and reconnect everything. Of course portability is nice, but I think lack thereof is a good deterrence again wasting time.
 
Based on hardware specs you get much more value for your money when you go for the iMac. If you need to carry around your mac take the MBP if you don't take the iMac. Working with a big screen is much easier than on a smaller one. Just my 2 cent.

Dave
 
Do you need portability or not?

Seeing that you've just finished your 8th grade, you do not. Get the iMac.
 
They just updated the iMac, so that means you could get a 2.8GHz 24" iMac now.
 
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