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i'm condsidering a mac desktop. which one suits me
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<blockquote data-quote="ScaryFatKidGT" data-source="post: 1461578" data-attributes="member: 278687"><p>First, I'm new here but I realized pretty fast, DON'T upgrade your ram at all. Get it after market.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/2011/DDR3_21.5_27" target="_blank">Memory up to 32GB for Apple iMac 2011 Thunderbolt equipped models</a></p><p></p><p>iMacs all start with 4GB and they want $100 to go to 8GB or $300 to go to 16GB when you can get 16GB for $100, and save $200 bucks. Also I would pay the extra $14 to get 2x8GB sticks vs. the 4x4GB sticks and keep the old 2 sticks in there then you would have 20GB which is way more than enough. Actually the 2x4GB sticks for $50 or 1x8GB stick for $62 would be fine, for a total of 12GB.</p><p></p><p>So to sum up, you can go from 4GB to 12 for $50 (instead of $100 for 8) or to 20GB for $114 (instead of $300 for 16).</p><p></p><p>(sense im new does someone want to confirm the above? That would work right? and theres 4 ram slots?)</p><p></p><p>Other than the possessor the only things your getting for the extra $300 are a larger hard drive and the graphics goes from AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB to a AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB, and I have no idea what the difference is.</p><p></p><p>The $300 increase seems worth it (unlike there laptop prices where they bundle in a over priced required ram upgrade) but I think the 2.5GHz model with 12GB of ram for an extra $50 would work fine.</p><p></p><p>More info on what your using it for would be helpful, and remember the more you spend the longer it will last that extra $300 could be another year before you need a new one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScaryFatKidGT, post: 1461578, member: 278687"] First, I'm new here but I realized pretty fast, DON'T upgrade your ram at all. Get it after market. [url=http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/iMac/2011/DDR3_21.5_27]Memory up to 32GB for Apple iMac 2011 Thunderbolt equipped models[/url] iMacs all start with 4GB and they want $100 to go to 8GB or $300 to go to 16GB when you can get 16GB for $100, and save $200 bucks. Also I would pay the extra $14 to get 2x8GB sticks vs. the 4x4GB sticks and keep the old 2 sticks in there then you would have 20GB which is way more than enough. Actually the 2x4GB sticks for $50 or 1x8GB stick for $62 would be fine, for a total of 12GB. So to sum up, you can go from 4GB to 12 for $50 (instead of $100 for 8) or to 20GB for $114 (instead of $300 for 16). (sense im new does someone want to confirm the above? That would work right? and theres 4 ram slots?) Other than the possessor the only things your getting for the extra $300 are a larger hard drive and the graphics goes from AMD Radeon HD 6750M with 512MB to a AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB, and I have no idea what the difference is. The $300 increase seems worth it (unlike there laptop prices where they bundle in a over priced required ram upgrade) but I think the 2.5GHz model with 12GB of ram for an extra $50 would work fine. More info on what your using it for would be helpful, and remember the more you spend the longer it will last that extra $300 could be another year before you need a new one. [/QUOTE]
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