The iMac’s 27” screen is, for lack of a better way to describe it, delicious.
#MAC TOWER FOR VIDEO EDITING PRO#
Between the Mac Pro and the 30” LCD, I had a real sauna in my office-which wasn’t helped by the fact that I live in the desert where the 120 degree heat in the summer is constantly coming through the window. Though I have a perfectly good 30” LCD hooked up to my Mac Pro, it put out a lot of heat the way it sat in my hutch-style desk (see image below), and it used old connectors which made it impossible to use going forward without buying adapters (more cables). The first was the screen and built-in iSight camera. I settled on the 27” iMac for two primary reasons. So it basically came down to how many wires I wanted hanging off the back of my desk. In fact, the SSD drive more than made up for the lack of RAM and processing power compared to my Mac Pro.
#MAC TOWER FOR VIDEO EDITING UPGRADE#
The Xeon processors were showing their age, and I could no longer upgrade the OS.īecause I had been using a MacBook Air (2011 model), I already knew that I could accomplish what I needed on a lower-end Mac if I had to. Though my dual-core 2.66 GHz Mac Pro had 11GB of RAM and plenty of storage, there were two problems that I simply couldn’t overcome. It wasn’t because I couldn’t afford it-prices came down quite a bit over the years. For all the expansion capability I was paying for, I never used it. You see, in the six years I had my Mac Pro (the longest I have ever used a single Mac), the year I had a PowerMac G5, and the years prior to that when I had several G3 and G4 towers, I never upgraded anything beyond the RAM and one additional internal hard drive in the Mac Pro. And that’s where my decision got difficult. Now I didn’t say that every Mac model is a perfect fit, far from it. Today’s Macs are powerful enough for working with Gigabyte sized files with as little as 8GB of RAM. If you think you NEED more, you’re most likely overestimating your needs. With NO exception, every Mac model available today can easily be used by the most demanding print and web designers-this includes the MacBook Air and the MacMini. The desktop models simply weren’t made for people like us.īut times have changed. In the distant past, the days when a 16GB stick of RAM took you a year or so to save-up for, the Mac tower models were the only way to go for pro designers.
The first thing I had to come to grips with is the revelation that I don’t NEED all the expansion that the Mac Pro has to offer.
It was a scary decision for me, but one I’ve been delighted with so far. It’s the first Mac I’ve owned since the Quadra 650 back in the mid 90s that wasn’t a tower model. After six years of using the original Mac Pro as my main workhorse, I finally took the plunge this past Christmas and upgraded to Apple’s latest 27” iMac.
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