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Originally Posted by rally
Not sure where you are looking Hugh?
My first iMac 6 years ago was an i7 and they are still available in various i5 and i7 configurations today.
You build it online and get it how you want from Apple - you can get an i7 in a number of processor options.
I just fiddled online and configured a 4.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz with 32gb RAM, AMD Radeon R9 M395X with 4GB, 1TB flash drive
The big flash drive made it a bit exy, but a standard 3TB hard drive was OK.
The "servers" (traditional box without screen) are called Mac Pro's
The standard processor in them is a 3.5GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor but if you have plenty of $$ you can get a 12 core Xeon
They come standard with Dual AMD FirePro D500 with 3GB VRAM graphic cards.
Expensive as a personal PC but powerful and definitely still available !
You dont get the variety of options if you buy the bits and build a WinPC yourself, but you also dont get the potential problems either.
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Ah, I was looking on the Apple site and I saw you could customise RAM but didn't see anything about processor, my bad
I use Mac Pros all the time but I wouldn't call them servers, they're a bit pricey for something that lives in a cold room out of sight. They're also significantly more expensive than an equivalent non Mac with the same bits in it, albeit in a much more attractive case.
And my experience doesn't really agree with your idea that you'll have less problems running OSX over Windows. We have far more issues with the Macs at work than the Windows or Linux boxes, and that's in the Mac's native habitat (Design and film production).
I'm typing this on my Mac Book Air 11 on which I'm running Windows 10 and I can say with certainty that it runs so much smoother and more stable in Windows than it did in OSX, plus I don't need to virtualise anything to run the programs I want. Kudos to Apple for writing decent drivers for Windows for their hardware.
However, I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else about what to spend your money on, or your time with, whatever works for you