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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1279060" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I can only echo the comments of the others. Beyond that, it hasn't been very long since the iMac and MacBooks were refreshed, so it's highly unlikely that it will happen again before next year.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You are looking at $1300 or so if you go with the Mac mini option, and you still need a monitor, keyboard, and mouse/trackpad. No matter which iMac you go with, you'd get a superior GPU with double the amount of RAM on that and double the on-chip L3 cache. All things considered, I suspect the iMac with an i5 would be a better proposition for the money. I'm not experienced with the kind of apps you plan to use, but I don't believe that processor power alone will make up for the deficiencies I listed.</p><p></p><p>With the iMac (and the mini actually), you can also just settle for the base 4GB RAM and upgrade it yourself with 3rd-party RAM for less.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: here's a site with some user-submitted benchmarks that may help you decide.</p><p><a href="http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/" target="_blank">http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1279060, member: 38864"] I can only echo the comments of the others. Beyond that, it hasn't been very long since the iMac and MacBooks were refreshed, so it's highly unlikely that it will happen again before next year. You are looking at $1300 or so if you go with the Mac mini option, and you still need a monitor, keyboard, and mouse/trackpad. No matter which iMac you go with, you'd get a superior GPU with double the amount of RAM on that and double the on-chip L3 cache. All things considered, I suspect the iMac with an i5 would be a better proposition for the money. I'm not experienced with the kind of apps you plan to use, but I don't believe that processor power alone will make up for the deficiencies I listed. With the iMac (and the mini actually), you can also just settle for the base 4GB RAM and upgrade it yourself with 3rd-party RAM for less. EDIT: here's a site with some user-submitted benchmarks that may help you decide. [url]http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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