Hello Everybody!
As you all know from many posts, I have a 2007 20" Alu. iMac with the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM from Crucial, and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, running OS X 10.7.2. One flaw in this iMac I was notified about by my friend in Minnesota who gave me the iMac, is that the original hard drive failed in the machine, and that the Genius Bar replaced it around Thanksgiving 2010. The drive has had many errors reported in Disk Utility over the past year, and has had many clean installs of Leopard, Snow Leopard, and even Lion. If I can scrape together the extra $600, I was looking at a 15" MacBook Pro with the high resolution display. I don't do intense things like running Photoshop, FCP X, and After Effects at the same time. I do tons of web browsing. I'm in Chrome from 7 AM, to 11 PM everyday, primarily on Flash based sites (YouTube). I do some light gaming, Portal 1, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2 via Steam. I only play those games occasionally. I was also wanting to put Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit on via Bootcamp, and play Grand Theft Auto IV and the EFLC addon. I play GTA IV every other day, for a few hours. I occasionally get into Photoshop Elements, and iMovie. I only get into iMovie maybe once a month. Photoshop Elements, maybe a few times a month. I have a small collection of content, thanks to my iMac eating my iTunes library. I only have 30 songs in iTunes, all are which my exercise tunes on my iPod Shuffle. I listen to podcasts via iTunes, and get all my Music from Spotify. I watch TV and Movies via Netflix, and occasionally Hulu. I do word processing, and use iWork '09 like a heroin junkie. I use iWork at least 10 times a week, usually in Pages. I was looking at the base model $1,799 2.2 GHz Core i7 15" MBP with the High Resolution display. I'm not looking to buy until January or February. Should I wait a few more months for the refresh? Would this be a good machine for my needs? Your help is appreciated.
Stay Cool,
Billy
As you all know from many posts, I have a 2007 20" Alu. iMac with the 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM from Crucial, and the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro, running OS X 10.7.2. One flaw in this iMac I was notified about by my friend in Minnesota who gave me the iMac, is that the original hard drive failed in the machine, and that the Genius Bar replaced it around Thanksgiving 2010. The drive has had many errors reported in Disk Utility over the past year, and has had many clean installs of Leopard, Snow Leopard, and even Lion. If I can scrape together the extra $600, I was looking at a 15" MacBook Pro with the high resolution display. I don't do intense things like running Photoshop, FCP X, and After Effects at the same time. I do tons of web browsing. I'm in Chrome from 7 AM, to 11 PM everyday, primarily on Flash based sites (YouTube). I do some light gaming, Portal 1, Left 4 Dead 2, and Team Fortress 2 via Steam. I only play those games occasionally. I was also wanting to put Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit on via Bootcamp, and play Grand Theft Auto IV and the EFLC addon. I play GTA IV every other day, for a few hours. I occasionally get into Photoshop Elements, and iMovie. I only get into iMovie maybe once a month. Photoshop Elements, maybe a few times a month. I have a small collection of content, thanks to my iMac eating my iTunes library. I only have 30 songs in iTunes, all are which my exercise tunes on my iPod Shuffle. I listen to podcasts via iTunes, and get all my Music from Spotify. I watch TV and Movies via Netflix, and occasionally Hulu. I do word processing, and use iWork '09 like a heroin junkie. I use iWork at least 10 times a week, usually in Pages. I was looking at the base model $1,799 2.2 GHz Core i7 15" MBP with the High Resolution display. I'm not looking to buy until January or February. Should I wait a few more months for the refresh? Would this be a good machine for my needs? Your help is appreciated.
Stay Cool,
Billy
