[satysin]

> Of course, it's stationary

You answered your own question. I need a machine that is portable that I can hook up to multiple monitors at home and at work, and that I can use on the go for meetings, customer visits, etc.

How the hell will an iMac help me there?

[GBKS]

But that's a matter of priority then, isn't it? If portability is important then you have to sacrifice some power.

I'm curious, what do you run on your computer to max out a brand-new MBP with 16GB of Ram?

I currently do design and dev work on a 3 year old MBP with 8GB Ram. This includes running VMs for I.E. and back-ends for various projects, using Xcode to build apps, editing Sketch files with 50+ screens, photo editing in Photoshop and motion graphics in AfterEffects. Naturally I don't everything at once, but even with a combo of some of them, everything runs just fine. So this makes me genuinely curious what people do that these brand-new machines can't handle. And are those demands really the majority use case? If not, then there is an argument for having different machines for the demanding work loads and maybe a smaller laptop or even iPad for meetings.

What are your thoughts?