A lot of developers think they need a Mac Pro, when in reality a Mac Mini or iMac are more than enough. I've talked to iOS app developers that run 12-core Mac Pros just to compile simple iOS apps. The only people that really need a Mac Pro are video, audio, and 3d artists. Practically everyone else should use an iMac or Mac Mini. Even for video, audio, and 3D you need to assess how much the extra render time is worth to you. In most cases we are only talking about a few minutes more to encode video/audio. The people that I've seen be the most vocal are in the "prosumer" dudes that pretty much mess around with audio/video as a hobby. The iMacs come with 680M's now, that's enough juice to make any kind of indie videogame that you can imagine.
honestly, no one on sharky needs a quad core ivy bridge and gtx680/radeon7970 powered beast... an i3 2100 and gtx660 will play every game on high settings
Originally Posted by Timman_24
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