My dead desktop

I’ve blogged a couple of times about the new laptop I’m saving for - I’d pretty much decided to get a MacBook.

Unfortunately that’s all been thrown out of the window.

The laptop was going to be my machine, something I could take out, away and use when and where I like - then I could leave the desktop machine at home for the kids and general family stuff.

The desktop machine died a horrible, smoke filled, smelly death last night and so my plans for a laptop have gone as the money has to be spent on a desktop machine.

The problem is - as well as running all the usual bits and pieces for general family use - it still needs to be up to the job of heavy photoshop use, a hammering from flash, dreamweaver and Audition with the odd bit of DVD burning thrown in.

My now dead desktop, allthough a few years old could still happily handle most of that (although it did complain a fair bit).

My wife is still happy for me to get a mac but after hunting around apple.com there seems to be a gap in their product line.

A Mac Mini isn’t up to the job I need it for, a MacPro is too expensive and over the top in terms of power for what I’ll use and I don’t want a machine all in one box so that’s the iMac out.

What I want is a sort of Middle Mac - the power of the iMac (or a little bit more) but without it all being in a single unit.

I could go for the 20″ iMac as it comes in at just under £1000 but would soon increase in price after increasing the ram to 2gb and then having to buy all new versions of Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver et al.

So in the absense of a decent, base only unit from Apple for £1000 or less I’m going to have to go for a PC.

But which one?

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