new imac?
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- BANKattack
If I do a lot of stuff with audio (mixing, recording & producing) which iMac is the ideal config?
http://store.apple.com/us/browse…
Do I need a i7? Is 27" really too big as some complained?
Thanks
- akrok0
i don't have a imac but...
i am on one 24" so the 20" at my ex. job felt a bit small.so, i would go 27".
- BANKattack0
thanks - can anyone weigh in on the i7 vs i5 ?
- akrok0
i heard something about i5 being faster then i7. but i am not 100 on that. hombro_lobo, should know.
- CQDE0
i've got the previous gen iMac 27" and it's more than enough (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, light AE and FCPro use).. 27" is amazing.. can't complain over more work area but i also don't have a problem with space where my imac lives..
i also work on a 24" monitor at work and the size difference does not bug me at all.. i assume 21.5" wouldn't be shabby either
- turnerworks0
I have a 27" at work. It looked like a behemoth at first, but I love it now.
- akrok0
well, you will be at 2k, and then 200 more for i7. and 200 more if you go 8GB.
- you can get 16GB from OWC for $200.Chief
- holly molly!akrok
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- Chief0
I'm thinking i'll put my old Mac Pro and ACD on craigslist and go with a new 27". I don't do enough freelance work to justify a new Mac Pro, though I'd love to have a 12-core. But the new iMacs are plenty fast.
- doesnotexist0
27" imac is the shit, just got mine in december and i love it. performance is great, if i remember correctly i got the best processor i could...i7?
- BANKattack0
thanks - i'm worried i7 may be overkill, not really rendering anything, but loading samples and searching for shit on my fukt MBP has been a pain. I want a clean big machine that's fast.
- the iMac is perfect for all needs, if you need more get a tower. until then.. iMac is great.e-pill
- e-pill0
i have the quad core i5 with 16gigs ram 27". i dont do audio or video.. so i cant talk towards the power you may need, i have a side 24"
flat panel as my second monitor and i feel the 24" now is too small..i got so used to the 27" that i cant go back even to my laptop.. but there was some getting used to since i came from laptop world..
i never had a single issue and i had it for 1 year already. the quadcore is a significant upgrade from my dual core laptop.. rendering heavy 3D files still takes forever but it isnt that endless forever as it was before. the new imacs also come with more ports in the back, and that is a good plus since you are more than likely to use them all, now you can as many ports and daisy chain more options.
the graphics card upgrade isnt so crazy for me, as the current graphics card is sick enough..
the price however.. is something nice and special compared to what i paid.. i went to the apple store website and priced out a fully maxed imac with everything i needed and the apple care.. it came to $3,887 - i payed around 3k and i dont have near what that imac has in it. so then i priced what i have exactly and it was $600 cheaper. thats a huge plus.
any upgrade in tech will always benefit you.. so go for it!!!
- plus during the winter it can heat up your room!!!at the time i couldnt afford the i7. i want it.e-pill
- i was told the i7 is better suited for programs with heavy files, like video or 3D..e-pill
- word up thanks!BANKattack
- at that time i just couldnt afford it.the price now is awesome, i wonder if i should upgrade..e-pill
- i priced out a fully maxed tower.. it came out to $22,000.00e-pill
- autoflavour0
i have an i5 imac 2010, its awesome.
that said, the new macbook pro i got a month ago is i7, and it burns the imac..but .. i couldnt be fucked editing HD video on a laptop screen.. its just, well, a pain in the ass
- the hd on mbp is 5400rpm, which are 30% slower then a 7200. unless you upgrade.akrok
- autoflavour0
and I do audio, video and 3d on the imac.
go the i7, osx see's its quad dual core.. so osx see's it as 8 processors.
handy for rendering 3d
- nthkl0
You'll love the large screen real estate, especially with timeline work. I say yes on the 27".
If you can afford the i7 (Which most of us can't), it is the way to go. My ex had the i7 17" powerbook with a slower ghz rating than a friends 15" i5, was much more snappy imo.
A major performance booster will be a solid state hard drive. Then use an external for storage.
- Boz0
You have to buy hard drives from Apple now too and you can't replace them yourself... LOL. Good luck paying $100 over the price of the same hard drive on PC.
New iMac frees you from the tyranny (and convenience) of servicing your own hard drives:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/…Source:
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-a…What a wonderful company!
- Boz0
What OWC guys conclude:
"In examining the 2011 27″ iMac’s viability for our Turnkey Upgrade Service, every workaround we’ve tried thus far to allow us to upgrade the main bay factory hard drive still resulted in spinning fans and an Apple Hardware Test failure. We swapped the main drive out (in this case a Western Digital Black WD1001FALS) with the exact same model drive from our inventory which resulted in a failure. We’ve installed our Mercury Pro 6G SSD in that bay, it too results in ludicrous speed engaged fans and an AHT failure. In short, the Apple-branded main hard drive cannot be moved, removed or replaced.To add insult to injury, the latest iMac EFI Update 1.6 unleashed 6Gb/s speeds on two internal ports – and naturally, one of them is the proprietary, firmware-limited, 7200RPM main drive that can’t take advantage of those speeds anyway."
- sigg0
1. there is a second hard drive bay that you can put anything you want in. Also, you can boot off that second drive if you want.
2. if the primary drive fails, you can have it replaced for free
3. if the primary drive isn't large enough or fast enough, you can put something better in the second bay
4. this is a consumer, not a pro, machine; it's unreasonable to expect 12 tb of storage or some huge RAID.Non issue?
- Boz0
You can't replace any hard drives due to proprietary connectors and custom firmware, so no, you can't put anything you want.
Replacing or upgrading a hard drive is not a big issue to you? LOL it has nothing to do with pro machine, it has everything to do with Apple forcing you to pay them higher prices of hard drives and have to buy it from them only.
Good luck with that. You'll be paying now $100 over the price of the same hard drive to Apple because they can rip you for it.
The hard drive is usually the first thing that croaks.
- sigg0
furthermore.
iMacs aren't meant to be user serviceable, so Apple's looking to economize the design by reducing the number of parts—removing the separate external sensor/cable monitoring the HDD's temp in favor of an integrated sensor. (Mildly analogous: Soldering flash storage chips directly onto the logic board of the MacBook Airs. Less complexity, but the trade-off is it's not user replaceable. SOP for Apple, really.)
- sigg0
again. non issue.