#I mac or mac pro portable
#I mac or mac pro pro

The reason the newer MacBook Pros are sooo much more expensive than a comparable iMac is that one, they are portable Macs and two, the new models use Flash storage (instead of conventional spinning platter hard drives) that Apple is charging a premium for, forcing you to, also, consider getting additonal external storage in the form of a conventional external hard drive OR external Solid State Drive (SSD).

#I mac or mac pro pro

I do not believe that the baseline MacBook Pro will handle FCXP very well and I am not sure about performance with the latest version of Photoshop. I can barely just afford the 21.5' 2.7GHz iMac price.Īlso, is the education pricing only $50 off the original price? I thought I'd seen somewhere that it was almost $200 off for educational pricing.? Would a Macbook Pro handle all the FCPX? I'm sure the most expensive MBP would handle it fine but I cannot afford that. Plus, I'll still technically have this laptop I could take with me - which I'm considering completely wiping and resetting it all once I get a new computer to see if that will help it's abundance of issues, other than it's charging issues. Yes I can still pack it up easy and take it with me when going to visit family in other states and what not but for the extra couple hundred $$ I'm not sure if it's worth spending more on a Macbook Pro if the iMac is going to run better for my needs. My current laptop's battery is dead so it's always plugged in, so as far as portability goes it's a bit limited. Other than video editing, the occasional Photoshop work, maybe some Dreamweaver, and then everyday things like web surfing, social sites, watching videos, etc. I don't do anything professional but would like the ability to be able to do more video editing stuff at home with FCPX. I currently don't do much (if any) video editing because my current laptop just can't handle that any more (it's also windows, I've never had a Mac), but I did a lot of video editing at school on the iMac's there. I'm stuck trying to decide between the 21.5' 2.7GHz iMac with the 1TB HDD & 8GB RAM etc. I'm a very indecisive person, and it *****.