soon my first macbook pro purchase. Designer. Help

Hey there guys!

I will buy my first Macbook pro soon.

I am a student of Visual communication, which means that I work a lot with Adobe

(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effect, esc.)

I mean, photo-manipulation, illustration, video art... heavy files.

While Mac should I buy? What CPU? is the difference between graphics cards questions?

and how it will affect my work?

Thank you!

My philosophy has always been to buy the best that I can afford both.  This would mean, for me, a maxed out 15 "MacBook Pro (which is what I bought this last June).

But I wonder: do you really need a laptop (MacBook Pro) or something like an iMac would work for you?

You get better performance with the iMac, everything simply because you are not paid for the necessary solidity with a laptop.  You also get a larger screen, faster processor and more memory (32GB available).

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