Thinking of selling my MBP to get an iMac

[gorenut]

So.. unfortunately.. I am one of the victims who ended up with a MBP that has the problematic nVidia 6600. I sent in my MBP for the third time today and I've only had it for a little over a year.. honestly.. I don't even really game that much either (most recently just played Starcraft here and there). So... I really don't want to risk the MBP just breaking down again due to the nVidia card dying on me when I actually got deadlines during freelance work... do the iMacs have the same problem as the MBP's nVidia cards (I know iMacs have the 6800... but I'm thinking of making sure I get ATI)?

Here are my possible choices.. getting the 24" 2.8ghz ATI 2600 PRO 500gig HD for 1,600
or the same size except for 3.06ghz NVIDIA 8800 500 gig hd for $200 more. I guess I'm just paranoid of NVIDIA's stuff now and I don't know if I should just save myself the $200 to get the ATI one and slow processor simply because I don't game all that much and my machine is mainly for doing graphic design work.

Any help would be appreciated

 

[zer0tails]

So.. unfortunately.. I am one of the victims who ended up with a MBP that has the problematic nVidia 6600. I sent in my MBP for the third time today and I've only had it for a little over a year.. honestly.. I don't even really game that much either (most recently just played Starcraft here and there). So... I really don't want to risk the MBP just breaking down again due to the nVidia card dying on me when I actually got deadlines during freelance work... do the iMacs have the same problem as the MBP's nVidia cards (I know iMacs have the 6800... but I'm thinking of making sure I get ATI)?

Here are my possible choices.. getting the 24" 2.8ghz ATI 2600 PRO 500gig HD for 1,600
or the same size except for 3.06ghz NVIDIA 8800 500 gig hd for $200 more. I guess I'm just paranoid of NVIDIA's stuff now and I don't know if I should just save myself the $200 to get the ATI one and slow processor simply because I don't game all that much and my machine is mainly for doing graphic design work.

Any help would be appreciated

the 2.8 is a safe and excellent choice

 

[gorenut]

the 2.8 is a safe and excellent choice

So does the NVIDIA 6800 suffer from the same problems as the 6600 in Macbook Pros?

 

[kurzz]

Do you mean the nVidia 8600/8800? There are no problems with those Nvidia cards on the imacs.

 

[jdwingnut]

Here are my possible choices.. getting the 24" 2.8ghz ATI 2600 PRO 500gig HD for 1,600

So, how do you get a 24" imac for $1600 with an upgraded hard drive. Even with a student discount, I've got $1744. $1849 without the discount.

BTW, you can upgrade the 2.8 to a 3.06 model and still keep the ATI video card. It is however the 256Mb vs the 512Mb nVidia

 

[eXan]

So.. unfortunately.. I am one of the victims who ended up with a MBP that has the problematic nVidia 6600. I sent in my MBP for the third time today and I've only had it for a little over a year.. honestly.. I don't even really game that much either (most recently just played Starcraft here and there). So... I really don't want to risk the MBP just breaking down again due to the nVidia card dying on me when I actually got deadlines during freelance work... do the iMacs have the same problem as the MBP's nVidia cards (I know iMacs have the 6800... but I'm thinking of making sure I get ATI)?

Here are my possible choices.. getting the 24" 2.8ghz ATI 2600 PRO 500gig HD for 1,600
or the same size except for 3.06ghz NVIDIA 8800 500 gig hd for $200 more. I guess I'm just paranoid of NVIDIA's stuff now and I don't know if I should just save myself the $200 to get the ATI one and slow processor simply because I don't game all that much and my machine is mainly for doing graphic design work.

Any help would be appreciated

Its 8600 and 8800, not 6xxx series

And you don't even need anything beyond integrated graphics for design work so why do you want 8800 in iMac???

 

[gorenut]

Its 8600 and 8800, not 6xxx series

And you don't even need anything beyond integrated graphics for design work so why do you want 8800 in iMac???

Yea, which was my reasoning for not caring too much about getting the upgraded version. I think the ATI should be plenty sufficient, especially because I've been working on my Macbook Pro this whole time and the specs definitely beats out the Macbook pro.

Thanks for all the input so far guys.