I am considering purchasing a new 24" entry iMac for my wife, and I am wondering if it will perform any better than my original (first gen) Mac pro with 2xDual Core Xeon CPU's and 6GB of RAM? If so I may pass the Mac Pro down to her and keep the iMac for myself ;-) I have 2x24" Dell Monitors connected currently to my Mac pro, and there is really nothing I have currently on the Mac Pro that I would need on an iMac other than it has more Ram that the 24" iMac. I do quite a bit of stuff with Aperture and iMove so maybe the graphic performance and CPU upgrade would be better? Thoughts?
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Original Mac Pro vs new iMac 24"
- Thread starter akakillroy
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Mac Pro for photo work and iMac for the wife.
You can do nice upgrades to your Mac Pro which you cannot do with the iMac.
-- Memory, multiple drives, software raiding etc... and possibly soon, the video card that only worked on the newer Mac Pros will have a version available for your Mac Pro.
cheers
- Phrehdd
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The mac pro has twice as many cores at the same clockspeed, more RAM, the option of an nvidea 8800 and multiple hard drives. Keep the pro.
The mac pro has twice as many cores at the same clockspeed, more RAM, the option of an nvidea 8800 and multiple hard drives. Keep the pro.