[jacques_chester]

Luckily for me, I don't do anything particularly CPU-intensive.

I just bought the current Mac Pro. Sure, I'd like the shiny new one. But I also needed a faster Mac that could accept a bit of expansion that I could get before the end of last financial year.

The hardest part about being an Apple tragic is separating my need for the zomg new shiny from simple business decisions like "is it worth getting something better now or limping along until some indeterminate future time?"

[zeckalpha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect

[bluedino]

Curious to the reasons you didn't go with the iMac? Did you need a ton of cores, didn't want to deal with external disks...?

[veidr]

I am not the poster you are replying to, but one other reason I always choose Mac Pro is the ECC RAM.

This may be mostly superstition on my part, but the fact that it can correct when cosmic rays from outer space[1] flip arbitrary bits in my computers' RAM really satisfies me.

I have tried to use spare Mac Minis or notebooks as servers, too. Among my couple dozen Macs, nothing other than a Mac Pro has ever had a > 1 year uptime when really being used.

Don't really know that it's the ECC RAM, but I'm sticking with it.

[1]: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/rl/articles/ser-050323-talk-r...

[jacques_chester]

Two reasons.

First: I have 2x30" screens. I don't want to go down.

Second: I can't put multiple HDDs and SSDs in an iMac.

The new system replaces a 24" iMac I bought in 2008. It made it for 5 years; the only upgrades were extra RAM when new and swapping the HDD for an SSD about 2.5 years into its lifetime.

I don't know how long I'll keep this one. Under Australia's small business equipment rules, it's already fully depreciated. So there's no accounting purpose to hold onto it if I don't want to.

[interpol_p]

With the iMac you would have 1x27" and 1x30" — that's not too bad is it? (That's my current setup and I find it quite good.)

[jacques_chester]

I dunno why, but the inconsistency is grating to me.

[girvo]

I'm the same. I even put my monitor on a book to make it perfectly in line with my imac.

[jacques_chester]

I did this too, when I had the iMac. I have a nice hutch arrangement now.

[bluedino]

The 27" iMac has two ThunderBolt ports so you could run both of those monitors, and the 27" that's built-in.