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Hi,
I am a looking to switch from PC to Mac. At present I am faced with the dilemma of whether to purchase a two mac setup. Tradtionally I have been a desktop and a laptop person. In undergrad that is what I had and now that I am in gradschool(and working full time) I find myself both at my desk and in class. Since my desktop is about to die ( 7 years old), this is going to be a decision that happens soon.
What I am contemplating is the following set up
rMBP 15"
- 2.7ghz
- 256GB SSD
- 16GB Ram
+
mac mini
     - 2.6 ghz
     - 1TB HDD+ 256GB SSD (installed by certified tech)
     - 4GB Ram (upgraded post purchase to 16GB
+
Apple's Georgous display (I have a left over monitor I will daisy chain at the end)
+
Superdrive & some external storage.
I am also a photographer so I run photoshop and lightroom, but I have heard that the mac mini would be smoked by the rmbp. To complicate matters I need to run windows in parallel so that I have access to MS Access, ESRI's ArcGIS mapping software, and some coporate apps for work when I telework.
So what should I do. I have play around with the idea of getting the bigger SSD on the rmbp and dropping the mac mini, but I love having computer redundency and have a boat load of data so regardless something is going to be left on my desktop. In an ideal world I would have the option of picking a MacPro, but they are so out of date now that I don't want to invest in that.
Any advice you provide would be most welcome.

My opinion:
The rMBP should serve you well for your photography. The Mac Mini would serve you well as a server to house data files and allow you to connect to it to retrieve the files without carrying around portable USB external drives.
I have both an early 2012 rMBP (i7, 2.3GHz, 8GB, 256GB SSD) and late 2012 Mac Mini (i5, 2.5GHz, 4GB Ram, 500GB HDD). I use the rMBP every day and I installed OS X Server ($19.99 from App Store) on the Mac Mini so I can have a server. I run the File Sharing, VPN, Time Machine and Open Directory services on the Mac Mini. I have two USB 3.0 500GB external drives that I alternate with Time Machine to back up both the rMBP and Mac Mini. I also added a 120GB SSD to the Mac Mini and created a Fusion Drive that combines both the SSD and HDD into one Logical Volume Group. The SSD really speeds up the Mac Mini and the combination using the built in OS X Mountain Lion CoreStorage, manages my space needs without me manually moving files around. So, I have a networked day-to-day computer (rMBP) that is mobile and I have a home server that houses my iTunes music and data files so I don't use up the 256GB of SSD storage on the rMBP. That space is plenty for me and day-to-day files.
If you're trying to choose between the two, I think the rMBP would be the better choice for what you do. You can always add portable external USB drives (USB 3.0) to house large data files and take them with you.

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