Originally Posted by potter

I just don't understand the idea of towers anymore. I switched to imacs/laptops back in 2004 and got rid of my last tower in 2006. It just seems like such an archaic idea these days.

I could see a tower and not think it was weird if I was walking into a studio or something and there was computers running some video rendering, but anything else and I'd think the people were behind the times.

BUT, with that said. I've owned a mac pro and it was nice (err. it was a powermac back then). They're powerful. They're not mobile at all though and they're heavy as alllllll hell. They're noisy too and get pretty bad after time - sounds like an airplane is taking off after a couple years.