Hi I'm new here so please bear with me. (Apologies I realise that this question is now in the wrong area.)
Please can somebody clear this up for me. I initially wanted to buy the base imac 2.7ghz i5 AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512M and run Photoshop CS5 for photo editing. (Im just getting started in photography.)
After extensive research I have been told by many mac experts in retail shops that this will be sufficient, yet obviously its best to upgrade ram in the future.
I then thought that I might want to get into video editing in the future so I am now considering the i5 3.1ghz AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB instead.
However somebody said on a Yahoo questions forum that for them, the i5 is slow for video editing so they went and bought an i7. ( I know I read to many opinions and everyone says something different).
My question is will the i5 3.1ghz with the upgraded 6970m graphics card be sufficient for video editing?
Ultimately I want the best that I could afford, so Id be disappointed if I found out that I couldn't do anything advanced in the future because my imac didn't have the necessary spec for certain actions.
Thanks.
Please can somebody clear this up for me. I initially wanted to buy the base imac 2.7ghz i5 AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512M and run Photoshop CS5 for photo editing. (Im just getting started in photography.)
After extensive research I have been told by many mac experts in retail shops that this will be sufficient, yet obviously its best to upgrade ram in the future.
I then thought that I might want to get into video editing in the future so I am now considering the i5 3.1ghz AMD Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB instead.
However somebody said on a Yahoo questions forum that for them, the i5 is slow for video editing so they went and bought an i7. ( I know I read to many opinions and everyone says something different).
My question is will the i5 3.1ghz with the upgraded 6970m graphics card be sufficient for video editing?
Ultimately I want the best that I could afford, so Id be disappointed if I found out that I couldn't do anything advanced in the future because my imac didn't have the necessary spec for certain actions.
Thanks.