Decisions to be made!

[tajski]

Alright lads and gals! I'm making this thread not to show off but ask for your opinions, haha!

Basically, I'll be getting a good dose of cash (college money) and I've decided to either buy a MacBook Pro or an iMac. Now to give you some background of my education. I'm currently studying HND Web Development and what that is really just making websites. As this is a two year course, this year I'll be learning how to make a successful professional looking website and in the second year I'll be learning all the background coding like mySQL and php (connecting the website to the databases).

So this year it's basically me working on designing and making good websites so here comes my question. I know it's my preference but I'm really interested what you guys think about this.

I was thinking about getting one but then I realized about the possible pros and cons.

Which one would you get, considering my education as it will be really used for college. I won't be playing games on it!

What would you do in my position?

[Pim]

Dude, if you work hard for 1 month you have enough experience in html and htmlx together with css to get a great website. Yet you need 1 year ?

Anyways, for web development you won't need the best pc out there like with graphical studies. Therefore it wouldn't really matter imho

[Fisu]

Well both of them would do the thing you want to do, none of them would be a problem, or would make you regret, why you didn't take the other one.

But personally I'd take the MacBook Pro.

=)

[presto]

I would go for the MBP simply because of it's portability.

The only reason I would go for the iMac is because of the bigger screen making it easier to see more but I don't think that would help you as much.

Get the MBP and a wireless mouse, sorted.

[tajski]

I would go for the MBP simply because of it's portability.

The only reason I would go for the iMac is because of the bigger screen making it easier to see more but I don't think that would help you as much.

Get the MBP and a wireless mouse, sorted.

That's exactly the main reason that stopped me from buying iMac I'd love to take it to college and possibly work on it whenever I'm out

EDIT// I love those 'green' stars under my name in this thread

[presto]

I would go for the MBP simply because of it's portability.

The only reason I would go for the iMac is because of the bigger screen making it easier to see more but I don't think that would help you as much.

Get the MBP and a wireless mouse, sorted.

That's exactly the main reason that stopped me from buying iMac I'd love to take it to college and possibly work on it whenever I'm out

EDIT// I love those 'green' stars under my name in this thread

Exactly you can take it anywhere and if you get a Mini-DP to HDMI cable like I have with my MBP, you can hook it up to external monitors and TV's so you solve the bigger screen dilemma too.

[tajski]

I would go for the MBP simply because of it's portability.

The only reason I would go for the iMac is because of the bigger screen making it easier to see more but I don't think that would help you as much.

Get the MBP and a wireless mouse, sorted.

That's exactly the main reason that stopped me from buying iMac I'd love to take it to college and possibly work on it whenever I'm out

EDIT// I love those 'green' stars under my name in this thread

Exactly you can take it anywhere and if you get a Mini-DP to HDMI cable like I have with my MBP, you can hook it up to external monitors and TV's so you solve the bigger screen dilemma too.

I'm not too bothered with the screen size to be quite honest with you and the main factor of me getting MBP is basically the portability. I'm aiming on using it for designing in Photoshop and coding in either Dreamweaver or Notepad++. Although I wanted the iMac because after all, it's a god damn iMac, haha! I'm one of those Apple lovers and basically I'd love to have it but then again it would sit on my desk without any purpose. I think that getting MBP and upgrading my processor and getting a SSD would be a good option. Oh well, I've already made my mind up but yeah, that will allow me to get an iPhone 6 Bend+ and save up the rest for a car.

[presto]

Haha fair enough. I must admit I love Apple too.

Just sold my 5S and will be getting a 6. Always loved the big phone but I just don't need the bigger screen.

Let us know which spec you've gone for.

[tajski]

This is what I'm going for although I've been told to check PC World as I would get it cheaper with my student discount

['PL']

Is Mac really necessary to specialize in website development?

I'd go with Pro as presto mentioned portability.

[P o p a y]

Alcohol + Girls = Simple and Perfect. (If readers of this reply are under 18 a Parental advisory is Required!)

MAKE A PARTY!

 If you waste your money on laptop you will end up with a bad laptop after one year (Probably of unintentionally breaking it) and you will buy a new one - This doesn't involve any good memories.. But having a wild party - Priceless memories!

['PL']

Yes

Alcohol and Girls make any Developer happy

[taha]

ballmer's peak innit
OT: if you really intend on buying an apple product , get the macbook
if not , a normal laptop with a GNU/linux distro is always good for programming , although macbooks have a really polished version of UNIX with a great GUI have a wider area of tools and you have to run most of your apps through wine on linux , but I find that it linux answers all my demands !
TL;DR : get a macbook if you really want one