I was considering the Mac Pro but that would require me to spend more money on a monitor and since I'm also going to be playing games, the GeForce is more beneficial than dual workstation GPUs. And then there's also the cost of upgrading the SSD size and/or buying an external drive. My other option is to buy a Samsung 840 EVO SSD for my early 2011 15" MBP with 2.3 GHz i7 and 6750m and wait for a refresh but I'm considering just going through with the iMac purchase and then buy a smaller SSD for the MBP for portability. I think the Seagate Hybrid drive that I bought failed or something because I can only boot in bootcamp and I have to do a full restore of the HD to have Mac OS X work on it again.
i got the same descision to make.
i assume u want to play in bootcamp... so you have to upgrade to an 512ssd and at least the d500. and then u are at about 4000$. that is insane. despite the fact that you are forced to get external storage attatched to the macpro. this is in my opinion a step back in "design". imagine all the cables... iiiiiew.
the problem with my 2011 imac was the bad gpu that cant handle the 1440p native resolution provided by the gorgeous display. every resolutions scaled down to under 1440p looks totally crappy. trust me.
so im looking for some informations that proof that i can play battlefield 4 (e.g.) in native resolution with a (multiplayer)-playable fps rate! there are videos on youtube that show nice framerates by usind "msi-afterburner" to slightly overclock the gpu. pretty nice.
hard descision.
the overall answer is: buy it if u need it. if you begin the "waiting-game" then you are never happy.
my descision till now is: i get the 27" 3.5, 8GB, 780m, 1TB FusionDrive and look how it performs (im sure it will perform pretty well.)
if it does not in 1440p, then ill get an gaming rig for about 1000€ and plug it into my imac and use it as en external display (the benefit: switch between macosx and win8 on the fly).
and... wooooooohooooo 2500€ imac + 1000€ gaming rig that runs all of the current games flawlessly = 3500€ for a kick ass setup.
how does this sound? I look forward to your opinion on this...