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<blockquote data-quote="jackcharles" data-source="post: 1021705" data-attributes="member: 148222">There is no doubt that the Core 2 Duo is sufficient for what I currently use it for. The speed of the system is excellent, and a big step up from my laptop which has a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM.&nbsp; My primary use is programming with Java and PHP, maybe while running Photoshop, iTunes and usually an SSH or VPN connection to various places. Recently, I have been developing Java games using OpenGL. I don't really know how much further I will be going into OpenGL, but I don't want to get to a stage where my development is limited by my graphics card.I bought the 27 inch in anticipation of the Kanex XD Converter, so that I would be able to play PS3 games, watch blu-ray movies and Sky HD on the bigger screen.&nbsp; Before buying the iMac I toyed with the idea of buying a larger HDTV and a PC, which I could still do if I returned it.&nbsp; One of the sales assistants in the apple store advised me only to get the quad core version if I was going to be doing resource intensive tasks like video editing or gaming. I don't do either, which is why I decided to save the £230 and get the basic version. I guess I'm just concerned that having the basic version would restrict me somewhere in the future, but I don't know where. I cannot say with certainty that I will never attempt to edit HD videos or get into mac gaming.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jackcharles, post: 1021705, member: 148222"] There is no doubt that the Core 2 Duo is sufficient for what I currently use it for. The speed of the system is excellent, and a big step up from my laptop which has a 2 GHz Core 2 Duo and 4 GB RAM. My primary use is programming with Java and PHP, maybe while running Photoshop, iTunes and usually an SSH or VPN connection to various places. Recently, I have been developing Java games using OpenGL. I don't really know how much further I will be going into OpenGL, but I don't want to get to a stage where my development is limited by my graphics card. I bought the 27 inch in anticipation of the Kanex XD Converter, so that I would be able to play PS3 games, watch blu-ray movies and Sky HD on the bigger screen. Before buying the iMac I toyed with the idea of buying a larger HDTV and a PC, which I could still do if I returned it. One of the sales assistants in the apple store advised me only to get the quad core version if I was going to be doing resource intensive tasks like video editing or gaming. I don't do either, which is why I decided to save the £230 and get the basic version. I guess I'm just concerned that having the basic version would restrict me somewhere in the future, but I don't know where. I cannot say with certainty that I will never attempt to edit HD videos or get into mac gaming. [/QUOTE]

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