Hi
My friend has the above model, and is considering to give it to two young girls for a "play machine", and the playing will be mostly with GarageBand. I will help him upgrade RAM, but I've also read GB is HD-intensive, and in another forum someone recommends upgrading the HD on exactly the same machine to a "7200 RPM" for GB.
What I don't understand is that Apple specs say the HD is already 7200 RPM. It's the 1 GHz model. Is the RPM speed the only indicator of speed on a HD? I don't know much about HD's so let's just put the question as simple as possible: Are there available HD's for this iMac model, that have noticeably higher speeds? Is it recommended to upgrade for HD-recording/GarageBand? Are they nicely priced? Should we instead leave the HD as it is, and maybe buy an external for later upgrades? Capacity is of no concern so far.
My friend has the above model, and is considering to give it to two young girls for a "play machine", and the playing will be mostly with GarageBand. I will help him upgrade RAM, but I've also read GB is HD-intensive, and in another forum someone recommends upgrading the HD on exactly the same machine to a "7200 RPM" for GB.
What I don't understand is that Apple specs say the HD is already 7200 RPM. It's the 1 GHz model. Is the RPM speed the only indicator of speed on a HD? I don't know much about HD's so let's just put the question as simple as possible: Are there available HD's for this iMac model, that have noticeably higher speeds? Is it recommended to upgrade for HD-recording/GarageBand? Are they nicely priced? Should we instead leave the HD as it is, and maybe buy an external for later upgrades? Capacity is of no concern so far.