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- 2.26 13" MBP, WD 7200 RPM 320GB HDD, 4GB RAM; 2 EDU iBook G4s, 4g nano, 16GB 2g Touch, shuffle
Ok, I've decided to buy an iMac pretty soon, but I'm trying to figure out what specs I need. I'm trying to save money so I am trying to go for only what I really need. I would like advice as to what I would need to do the following activities:
-Maintain my 30GB iPod (which has only 8GB filled now and will most likely never get to 30GB)
-Word processing (with Word)
-Internet
-very occassional photo printing/minimal editing (VERY minimal, like only after vacations)
-POSSIBLE blogging (but not video podcasting or recording)
-SimCity (that's probably the only game)
Those are the only things I will be using it for. This is what I was thinking for specs (and I don't really know what these things mean, so feel free to explain/or suggest something different):
17" iMac
-2.0 GHz
-1 GB memory (but considering 2, not sure what the benefit would be?)
-160 GB HDD (thinking with going with the minimum because I can always buy an external drive if needed)
-Apple Care plan?? Is it necessary??? I have friends who could trouble shoot the mac if necessary, so do I need to pay the extra $$??
I will upgrade to Leopard a few months down the road after it comes out, so woudl it be better to have larger memory/HDD???
I'm trying to keep it as little $$ as possible... any suggestions for upgrades or do these specs sound good for what I would be using it for?? Thanks!!
Bethany
-Maintain my 30GB iPod (which has only 8GB filled now and will most likely never get to 30GB)
-Word processing (with Word)
-Internet
-very occassional photo printing/minimal editing (VERY minimal, like only after vacations)
-POSSIBLE blogging (but not video podcasting or recording)
-SimCity (that's probably the only game)
Those are the only things I will be using it for. This is what I was thinking for specs (and I don't really know what these things mean, so feel free to explain/or suggest something different):
17" iMac
-2.0 GHz
-1 GB memory (but considering 2, not sure what the benefit would be?)
-160 GB HDD (thinking with going with the minimum because I can always buy an external drive if needed)
-Apple Care plan?? Is it necessary??? I have friends who could trouble shoot the mac if necessary, so do I need to pay the extra $$??
I will upgrade to Leopard a few months down the road after it comes out, so woudl it be better to have larger memory/HDD???
I'm trying to keep it as little $$ as possible... any suggestions for upgrades or do these specs sound good for what I would be using it for?? Thanks!!
Bethany