Timothy Harry
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Aug 10, 2007, 10:39 AM
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Re: [cvginkel] iMac or MacBook Pro (SDE)
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For SDE only I would be very likely to consider an iMac. My wife has the previous generation iMac and it works very well for digital photography with aperture on it. I dont know that it would be that much different performance wise. There are 2 things that bugs me about the iMac. One is lack of an expansion slot like an expresscard 34 slot, and the other is that it is almost impossible to get at the main system hard drive. With the MacBook Pro you can add an eSATA card to it and have a hard drive or 2 interfacing at the same bus speed as the internal drive, no firewire and no USB connection to slow you down. On the Internal Hard drive front, it would make me nervous to have a computer that is not designed to be portable and an impossible to get to system hard drive. Picture getting to the site and having a dead disk drive.....might not be a good thing, but I would probably take the chance, especially knowing that my macbook pro is in the truck anyway. They are both great machines, and are very well made. It would definitely be a toss up.
Tim Harry
Bandwagon Media
Odessa, TX
"I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job."
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