At the risk of being completely useless, more is always better where specs are concerned. Apple give you a great experience with Mac, but alas, they charge overly for upgrades, and you only get to make those purchases one time, when you buy your machine. This is, of course, no coincidence. Be prepared to get your wallet out.
The Mac Minis are fine machines, though they would be more fine if quad-core were available again. The Air is a good choice for a solo machine, but as other people here have mentioned, adaptors like FitHeadless exist to solve your virtual monitor needs, and if you are seating the computer in a fixed location, you get more bang for your buck with a Mini, even where external accessories purchases are factored in. The iMac is also a desktop you might consider—but never without an SSD or Fusion drive installed, for heaven’s sake. I ultimately yielded to temptation and now have one, soon as my sole Mac. It is thus a maxed-out iMac Retina 5K. The maxed-out Mac Pro is my dream machine. I can’t afford it. :( MacBooks may be too limited, and MacBook Pros might be too expensive, but they also have their place. I urge you to think positive when it comes to iOS devices; often, you can use them in place of laptops nowadays for most everyday things, and you still get a better feel with a desktop. But buying a MacBook Pro is also an option if you want a machine that will do both fairly competently. In my experience the loss of portability is more than made up for by the power; a MacBook Air is lovely but you’ll really notice when you start running your VMs on it and do heavy workloads. I hope I have given you some ideas, anyroad. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
