I realised my macbook was on the desk all the time and left the house only once…
I have an iPad and it's more than enough when I need something portable.
I made a list of all the reasons why I should change the laptop + external display combo for an iMac, maybe it will help you as well:
1. 250gb of storage vs 3TB of fusion drive - macbook's drive was constantly full and it became really annoying when I wanted to keep some files on the computer, like iTunes library, more photos, etc. I take a lot of pictures and they take a lot of space when in raw format, and then later even more as photoshop files.
2. 16GB vs 32GB of ram - although macbook pro is really fast, iMac is blazing
fast.
3. 1GB vs 2GB graphics - I play a lot in Batman Arkham games and had to turn down most of the graphic settings when on macbook - now have everything at MAX
4. Faster processor
5. For the past 8 months I was working on photos and design, 10, 12 hours a day and with the Thunderbolt Display I had to cover the window with a paper background so I wouldn't have any reflections on the screen, now I don't need to do anything, iMac's screen has almost no reflections.
I sold the display for £600 and macbook for £1000 and bought a second hand iMac on the very same day for £1550I used gumtree to do that.
Hope that helps!
Yes thank you. Gumtree seems to be a European site so I may not be able to use that cause I'm in Canada. But I'm looking on the Apple refurbs page and Kijiji. The iMac refurb with your specs would be $2,339 Canadian plus tax. I don't do anything graphically intensive so the iMac may be a bit too much for me. I'm thinking even a rMBP 13" with external display would work for me. But the one thing I like about the 27" iMac is that you can change the Ram if you need it cause of the little door on the back. One thing I actually tend to notice now on the iMac is the pixels. Even at a normal viewing distance. I don't notice that on my "hi-res" 15" 2011 MBP. The iMac display doesn't seem so crisp now that the "retina" screens have been around for a while. Does the iMac screen seem pretty crisp to you or do you miss the retina screen of the MBP?
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