First, I've been saving up for my transition from PC to Mac. I have plenty of gift cards to cut into any Mac that I decide to choose.
Here's my current situation:
I travel for work literally every week and am working on a personal project during after-hours (outside of office). So I'm usually in a hotel or back at home on the weekends for personal project work.
I am not sure how much longer my travel situation will remain, but let's assume will I keep traveling for my day job indefinitely.
My personal project MAY utilize any of the following in no particular order:
1. Adobe Flash programming, Photography processing (i.e. PhotoShop), scripting such as Perl, database programming, other miscellaneous web development, potentially 3D processing. Video processing isn't in the cards yet but I would not exclude it from something I would like to dabble in.
So with that in mind, what is (in your opinion) an ideal setup?
Ideas I've thrown around:
1. Get a Mac Pro at home and remote desktop into it from my PC laptop. That way I can work on my project on the road and then, when I'm at home, I can have a huge LCD monitor.
2. Get a iMac i7 at home and remote desktop into it PC laptop. Basically the same idea as the Mac Pro in #1 above.
3. Get a MB Pro i7 (if and when it comes out) and dock it to a 27-30" LCD monitor when I'm back at home.
I want to be mindful of the costs but I already understand and accept that the 3 setup scenarios above will be relatively expensive where the Mac Pro setup will be high (expense), Mac i7 will be medium, MB Pro i7 with Monitor will be high.
Thoughts, Ideas? Anything else I may have missed? Any other things I should seriously consider?
Many thanks in advance!
Here's my current situation:
I travel for work literally every week and am working on a personal project during after-hours (outside of office). So I'm usually in a hotel or back at home on the weekends for personal project work.
I am not sure how much longer my travel situation will remain, but let's assume will I keep traveling for my day job indefinitely.
My personal project MAY utilize any of the following in no particular order:
1. Adobe Flash programming, Photography processing (i.e. PhotoShop), scripting such as Perl, database programming, other miscellaneous web development, potentially 3D processing. Video processing isn't in the cards yet but I would not exclude it from something I would like to dabble in.
So with that in mind, what is (in your opinion) an ideal setup?
Ideas I've thrown around:
1. Get a Mac Pro at home and remote desktop into it from my PC laptop. That way I can work on my project on the road and then, when I'm at home, I can have a huge LCD monitor.
2. Get a iMac i7 at home and remote desktop into it PC laptop. Basically the same idea as the Mac Pro in #1 above.
3. Get a MB Pro i7 (if and when it comes out) and dock it to a 27-30" LCD monitor when I'm back at home.
I want to be mindful of the costs but I already understand and accept that the 3 setup scenarios above will be relatively expensive where the Mac Pro setup will be high (expense), Mac i7 will be medium, MB Pro i7 with Monitor will be high.
Thoughts, Ideas? Anything else I may have missed? Any other things I should seriously consider?
Many thanks in advance!