15 - inch MacBook Pro or iMac?

Hi, I bought a new MacBook Pro a few months back for use with logic, I also bought a 27 "Thunderbolt display.

Now I'm worried if I should have opted for the maxed on high spec iMac 27 with 32 GB of RAM?

I will have no problem, but I recorded only 2 or 3 titles on the projects, I'll again start projects in the next few months, about 50 titles + plugins.

My MBP is going to be good enough?   or should I get the iMac maxed out?

My MBP is

15 "retina

2.8 GHz Quad - core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.0 GHz

  • 16 GB 1600 MHz SDRAM DDR3L
  • 512 flash storage

The iMac has bus data faster and better GPU, so it will be better than the MBP.  Also, you want to get a USB 3.0 external drive to keep all your media and project files, don't run them from the system drive.  The external drive must be also 7200 RPM, not slower.   If you do a lot of major projects, consider a RAID Thunderbolt (4 drives, 7200 RPM). Desktop always surpass laptops.

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