Hi guys,
I've googled and read forums, reviews and news items until I'm blue in the face and I'm still not much closer to choosing which iMac to get. Would love some anecdotal evidence or stories of joy to help me choose!
(Hi btw, I'm new here).
Basically I have a nice pile of redundancy money to choose a new mac with. At first I was going to upgrade my 2006 macbook for a new macbook pro, but the more I think of it, the more I have leaned to wards grabbing an iMac instead and having the security of a desktop for all my photos/music etc.
I've whittled the mac choice down to either:
I will mainly be using for photo editing, the odd bit of video and possibly some games (although the xbox takes care of that normally).
I want the machine to last us for quite some time, as I'm not normally in the position to splurdge such a huge amount on a computer. I'm also (hopefully) going to take along my student sister and take advantage of the NUS discount if I'm lucky.
So my question is this. Which of those 2 machines is going to be fastest, for longest?
I've looked at geekbench results and read other posts but I'm still none the wiser. Help me mac forum hive mind, you're my only hope!
Thanks.
I've googled and read forums, reviews and news items until I'm blue in the face and I'm still not much closer to choosing which iMac to get. Would love some anecdotal evidence or stories of joy to help me choose!
(Hi btw, I'm new here).
Basically I have a nice pile of redundancy money to choose a new mac with. At first I was going to upgrade my 2006 macbook for a new macbook pro, but the more I think of it, the more I have leaned to wards grabbing an iMac instead and having the security of a desktop for all my photos/music etc.
I've whittled the mac choice down to either:
- 3.6ghz i5 (21 or 27)
- 2.8ghz i5 quad core
I will mainly be using for photo editing, the odd bit of video and possibly some games (although the xbox takes care of that normally).
I want the machine to last us for quite some time, as I'm not normally in the position to splurdge such a huge amount on a computer. I'm also (hopefully) going to take along my student sister and take advantage of the NUS discount if I'm lucky.
So my question is this. Which of those 2 machines is going to be fastest, for longest?
I've looked at geekbench results and read other posts but I'm still none the wiser. Help me mac forum hive mind, you're my only hope!
Thanks.