Refurbished iMac
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- insomnie
Good or Bad?
Refurbished iMac 27-inch 3.2GHz Intel Core i3 processor
- doesnotexist0
golden.
- Miguex0
ya mon!
do a filter/ search on it, here.
A refurbished mac is usually better than a new one. Just make sure you buy it from apple, so you have their warranty
- TheeOtherJuan0
Hahaa buddy of mind just bought one (refurb 27") about two weeks ago and really hasn't been able to take it home to enjoy it. Apple tells him its a power problem.
- that same thing happened to me twice, with a brand new product from appleMiguex
- akrok0
good. but get applecare. so you got your ass covered.
- insomnie0
Thanks guys I bought it!
- Hombre_Lobo0
i3 cpu? its not exactly a heavy weight cpu.
what work you doing on it?
- akrok0
^
insomnie, should had bought my G4 867 instead. heh. :-D- oh, and it's pretty. have it on the desk, not under. lol.akrok
- ha, ive got an atari ST she could use!Hombre_Lobo
- haha. yes!akrok
- Hombre_Lobo0
that ips screen looks v nice.
so even if the i3 isnt as good as you need, the time spent waiting for renders, or files to load you can just stare at it going "oooooo, ahhhh" :D
- dirtydesign0
i bought one. works aight.
imacs are fuken slow though.
- tOki0
I'm seriously looking at getting a 17" mbp and would go the refurb option, but can't get 8gb of ram. If I'm going to buy a desktop replacement, it needs to be pretty beefy.
I'm also in a bit of a struggle when there are some really nice PC laptops out there which are still nicely designed, but are far more powerful. The OS is the main thing - I like working on a mac far more than I like working on a PC.
- Hombre_Lobo0
^hackintosh!!!!! :D
save some cash, but spend a bit of time trouble shooting any flaws. Worth it though.
- Hombre_Lobo0
- you're such a nob when your in the office tOki.
:DHombre_Lobo - hahahahahahahaMiguex
- bling, bling.akrok
- lulztOki
- you're such a nob when your in the office tOki.
- cizo0
I bought one exactly like that and after a couple months it started ticking like a fuckin bomb whenever I ran more then a couple programs. Took into to an Apple authorized service provider and had a new hard drive in a couple days. I say go for it.
- Hombre_Lobo0
although i wouldnt recommend any apple product after what happened to me yesterday.
http://www.qbn.com/topics/329751…
moronicles!- yeah but all the shit is made at the same place. pretty much.akrok
- insomnie0
I also bought 16gb of ram on the side!
- I really hope it wasn't through apple. They charge like 300% for the hardware. Feel bad for not pre warning you :(Hombre_Lobo
- Nope, not through Apple. I know better then that!insomnie
- top notch.akrok
- tOki0
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/m…
32gb = $581
http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78…
6+26gb = add $3,550
It's slightly insane.
- 600% more expensive ftwtOki
- what do u do that you need 6gb + for? I assume rendering farms use lot sof ram, but individually?deathboy
- Curious what apps and skills can use so much?deathboy
- AE & Photoshop could eat that if you are working on high res stuff.tOki
- I work in web, and I've chewed my 12gb working on complex flash sites (they usually pretty asset intense)tOki
- deathboy0
had to work on a new mac tower today. pimped. and within 15 minutes i had bridge collapse on me 3 times. It couldnt play 5d video at native frame rate. had to switch to quicktime installed and that crashed twice. im not sure if its me clicking too fast or what. i ended up going home to sort footage which is awesome. just me hatin what i find to be inferior shit
- new mac... was the system & software properly updated? Usual cause for those sort of things is bugs (Adobe or Apple)Amicus
- could be not sure if it was all up to date. an empty machine not worked on much. may need patchesdeathboy
- i can say updates were likely done a few months ago. but disappointingdeathboy
- abettertomorrow0
A brand new Mac Pro and Adobe Bridge crashes 3 times in 15 min because of the computer's performance??
I think you might be the one doin' it wrong...:D
- no crashes on my home machine? And the frame rate of video was terrible. I have no other hypothesis except blame OSdeathboy
- the OS. I could be wrong, id liek to know wtf was the issue.deathboy
- Nah...cmon. On both a state of the art PC or Mac setup you can easily do all this basic shitabettertomorrow
- my home machine has a better GFX card, my 15" macbook runs video stable out of bridge runnign 7... i dont get itdeathboy
- You think Mac users are seeing crashes all the time and can't watch video? hahaabettertomorrow
- I mean, how do you think people did this stuff ten years ago FFS?abettertomorrow
- I dont know. Maybe the machine jsut needed to be rebooted jsut sayign what happened to me todaydeathboy
- Just sayin...performance issues like that are usually overblown IMOabettertomorrow
- Im curious if its adobe maximizing performance on PC or what.deathboy
- Considering how much faster/more powerful machines are from what was considered "state of the art" just a few years agoabettertomorrow
- years agoabettertomorrow
- hardware is hardware. Im thinkign software created the problems i saw.deathboy
- i dont play enough with OSX these days unless i have to. Is it the cinema display driver with bridge or what for FRatedeathboy
- A lot of variables im nit sure about but what i know leads to OS. I do liek working form home thoughdeathboy
- I think it\s pretty safe to blame adobe for this one.monNom
- monNom0
bad deal if it's for a work machine. Despite the "whole case is a heatsync" claims, they have terrible thermal design and cook HD's right and left.
If you can't get a power mac, get a PC with a nice big airy case and a lot of fans in it. Dell xps are okay looking and good value for the money.
if you want to spend a bit extra for a whole lot more performance, add an Intel SSD drive for your system drive (storing client files on a mirrored platter drive set [raid1])
- I'be been working on iMac 27inch at work for about a year. No harddrive cooking problems.insomnie