Mac or Festool? I found the answer!

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I too need (want) a new Mac, but I am going to build a house instead. The Mac itself is 2007 vintage MacBook, and I use it a lot to design projects using Sketchup. In that sense, the Mac is critical to my business, but not the way it is right now.

Paid for one of those disk cleaning applications, and it did well by me, but not completely. Purchased an SSD (solid-state drive) along with 4GB RAM chips for all of $200. I have not received it yet, but I have great expectations for my Mac's performance with these upgrades. Check it out at crucial.com.

Best increase in speed you will ever see from a perfect upgrade. Speaking as ex IT and typing this on an old aluminium unibody 2008 MacBook that I have no intention of upgrading.

 

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I upgraded my wifes old clunky MBP 15" from late 2008 (last model before unibody) with a 500GB SSD & maxed RAM to 4GB and its again perfectly serviceable.

On my personal desktop side I did go a different route by building my own 6-core i7 setup with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 16TB of secondary storage for a fraction of the MacPro price.

Sure its a big silver box and not a Mac, but I'm running Adobe Premier Pro in full-hd quite fluidly on it with more powerful Nvidia cards than are available for Mac's under Win7 Ultimate just fine. As much as the technologist in me would like to have a MacPro I can't get myself to put down 10k€ more for a similar rig just for the Apple experience. (And that's not even counting the secondary storage unit)

If four cores is enough and you need 4K I would consider the 5K iMac as a perfect solution, but if you do video edit in high res or the audio stuff you do scale with cores the extra cores just help and aren't available in the iMac form factor.

 

[PreferrablyWood]

I upgraded my wifes old clunky MBP 15" from late 2008 (last model before unibody) with a 500GB SSD & maxed RAM to 4GB and its again perfectly serviceable.

On my personal desktop side I did go a different route by building my own 6-core i7 setup with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD and 16TB of secondary storage for a fraction of the MacPro price.

Sure its a big silver box and not a Mac, but I'm running Adobe Premier Pro in full-hd quite fluidly on it with more powerful Nvidia cards than are available for Mac's under Win7 Ultimate just fine. As much as the technologist in me would like to have a MacPro I can't get myself to put down 10k€ more for a similar rig just for the Apple experience. (And that's not even counting the secondary storage unit)

If four cores is enough and you need 4K I would consider the 5K iMac as a perfect solution, but if you do video edit in high res or the audio stuff you do scale with cores the extra cores just help and aren't available in the iMac form factor.

i've spec'd out a audio PC for around € 2500 that would murder the Mac Pro just as an exercise.. Though it's hard to know it the all that power will be used effectively for my audio VST instruments and effects.

I'm on my second iMac and I would like something more configurable and upgradable this time up..I'm very slow to upgrade my computer gear, every 5 or 6 years, so no rush really..