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2.66 Mac Pro or 2.4 24" iMac?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: NYC
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Need some advice here. My Mac Pro has basically melted down; it'll need a new logic board, power supply and other parts to fix it (no AppleCare). The repair quote is steep - high enough that I'm considering a replacement machine instead of repairing the Mac Pro.
So I've decided to either fix the Mac Pro:
Mac Pro 2.66 (4 core)/GeForce 7300/4GB RAM
or buy a new iMac 2.4 24":
iMac 2.4 (2 core)/Radeon HD 2600 Pro/4GB RAM/AppleCare
I use my computer primarily for processing RAW photos in Aperture2 and some standard Photoshop compositing. My photos are generally output for the web or prints. I'm not doing any prepress work,etc.
What's your opinion on any performance hits I may take by buying an iMac? I've only owned towers, but I was impressed with the iMac's performance when I was playing with it at the Apple Store.
All advice is appreciated, even if you want to flame me for not getting AppleCare when I bought my Mac Pro 
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Minnesota
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Stick with the mac pro. If your comfortable replacing the parts yourself, order them and do it. Or, buy a refurb mac pro and sell the other for parts. Am surprised you had a melt down but suppose it happens. As for the extended warrenty, everyone has there own opinions about that. I didn't get one with my refurb. If it goes, I'll replace the stuff myself. 250 bucks is alot of cash. What were you doing when it melted down? It should of shut down when the temps peeked. Mine runs constantly crunching data for grid computing. I do run smc fan control to keep the fans higher and have zero problems for the past year. Good luck.
Randy
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2010 Mac Mini, 32GB iPod Touch, 2 Apple TV (1)
Home built 12 core 2.93 Westmere PC (almost half the cost of MP) Win7 64.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Mac Pro all the way... the iMac's mobile (laptop) foundations (CPU, chipset, GPU) can barely handle today's Aperture workflows, much less in 1-3 years.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Truckee, CA
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What Mark said. Mac Pro.
Dozens of Macs over the years (I manage IT for an multi-store retail operation) and it has worked out that AppleCare would not be even remotely cost effective over time. Yes once in a while it may work, but overall it is the lamest thing anyone can spend money on (unless a fully loaded $8k MP with a couple of displays, and that should never happen because RAM, graphics cards and drives are best purchased third-party).
-Allen Wicks
(Last edited by SierraDragon; Mar 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Truckee, CA
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The 4 GB RAM limitation alone disqualifies iMacs for serious heavy graphics users, even if one can tolerate having the glossy-only screen arbitrarily add contrast and saturation to one's pix.
-Allen Wicks
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