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So I think this would be the best forum to post this in. I apologize in advance for the long read... and yes this would be better on a Mac site but I'm not wasting the time to join one for one thread, especially when plenty of people here are just as knowledgeable with computers.
So I'm heading to college in two weeks and I currently have a late 2008 MacBook Pro. The original unibody. It has an upgraded hard drive and RAM. I had to replace the hard drive last week because everything got corrupted when I restarted it due to a crash (it crashes like once a month, usually no big deal). After the recovery partition wouldn't boot, I replaced the hardrive and restored from backup and after a few hours in disk utility just trying every option I somehow got it to repair when it originally said it wouldn't. But this scared me, because I was planning on getting a top of the line Retina MacBook Pro next year when they update to broadwell. If this had happened with that laptop once it was out of warranty, I would've been out $600 for an SSD. I'm very concerned with the reliability of the rMBP because it has no user replaceable parts except the SSD card which is mad expensive.
So today I was toying around with getting a Mac Pro instead with a 512 SSD. I'd really like 1 TB but it's upgradeable in the future and I have tons of external space. Do you think I'd be crazy getting a desktop for college? It seems like it'd last me much longer and is more bang for the buck.
The laptop I have now is fine (this has been the best computer I've yet to own, I've had it for almost 6 years, but it's showing it's age), minus the battery which only lasts for an hour. The batteries degrade too quickly for me to consider getting another one. I can just plug it in in class if I need it.
I guess what I'm asking is if you guys think it'd be better to wait until the next rMBP revision and just go for it for portability's sake and pray it doesn't break down the road or to get the Mac Pro now and enjoy the longer lasting computer? This one will run Yosemite fine but it's time to replace it. My budget is around $2,800-$3,200. I've seen people on here with both computers so I would greatly appreciate them chiming in.
I use photoshop, have a 11,000 song iTunes, and expect a computer to last 5 years at the minimum. Advice?
So I'm heading to college in two weeks and I currently have a late 2008 MacBook Pro. The original unibody. It has an upgraded hard drive and RAM. I had to replace the hard drive last week because everything got corrupted when I restarted it due to a crash (it crashes like once a month, usually no big deal). After the recovery partition wouldn't boot, I replaced the hardrive and restored from backup and after a few hours in disk utility just trying every option I somehow got it to repair when it originally said it wouldn't. But this scared me, because I was planning on getting a top of the line Retina MacBook Pro next year when they update to broadwell. If this had happened with that laptop once it was out of warranty, I would've been out $600 for an SSD. I'm very concerned with the reliability of the rMBP because it has no user replaceable parts except the SSD card which is mad expensive.
So today I was toying around with getting a Mac Pro instead with a 512 SSD. I'd really like 1 TB but it's upgradeable in the future and I have tons of external space. Do you think I'd be crazy getting a desktop for college? It seems like it'd last me much longer and is more bang for the buck.
The laptop I have now is fine (this has been the best computer I've yet to own, I've had it for almost 6 years, but it's showing it's age), minus the battery which only lasts for an hour. The batteries degrade too quickly for me to consider getting another one. I can just plug it in in class if I need it.
I guess what I'm asking is if you guys think it'd be better to wait until the next rMBP revision and just go for it for portability's sake and pray it doesn't break down the road or to get the Mac Pro now and enjoy the longer lasting computer? This one will run Yosemite fine but it's time to replace it. My budget is around $2,800-$3,200. I've seen people on here with both computers so I would greatly appreciate them chiming in.
I use photoshop, have a 11,000 song iTunes, and expect a computer to last 5 years at the minimum. Advice?