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Will I regret not getting the i9 (2019 iMac)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1849751" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>Honestly, your workflow would be perfectly serviced with a 4-core processor, the 6-core is better and the 8-core is overkill.</p><p></p><p>I recently upgraded from a 2009 quad-core iMac to a 2018 6-core Mac Mini. I specifically upgraded to the 6-core based on my workflow. I upgraded the memory to 32GB after the purchase and I went with the 512GB SSD.</p><p></p><p>My workflow is primarily for development, so I have Chrome, Firefox and Safari running at all times along with Docker with 13 containers running currently. I also have IntelliJ (a development IDE) running a Java webapp within Tomcat. I also have a VM with Windows 10 running through VMWare Fusion that has it's own development environment (Visual Studio and related stuff) running at the same time.</p><p></p><p>So I need the memory to be able to run all of these things at the same time without running into memory constraints and the bulk of my apps are CPU intensive (compiling, running applications) so the 6-core CPU greatly helps.</p><p></p><p>So if you have the money, then by all means upgrade and you will well served with that machine for many years to come, but not upgrading will not in any way harm your workflow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1849751, member: 110816"] Honestly, your workflow would be perfectly serviced with a 4-core processor, the 6-core is better and the 8-core is overkill. I recently upgraded from a 2009 quad-core iMac to a 2018 6-core Mac Mini. I specifically upgraded to the 6-core based on my workflow. I upgraded the memory to 32GB after the purchase and I went with the 512GB SSD. My workflow is primarily for development, so I have Chrome, Firefox and Safari running at all times along with Docker with 13 containers running currently. I also have IntelliJ (a development IDE) running a Java webapp within Tomcat. I also have a VM with Windows 10 running through VMWare Fusion that has it's own development environment (Visual Studio and related stuff) running at the same time. So I need the memory to be able to run all of these things at the same time without running into memory constraints and the bulk of my apps are CPU intensive (compiling, running applications) so the 6-core CPU greatly helps. So if you have the money, then by all means upgrade and you will well served with that machine for many years to come, but not upgrading will not in any way harm your workflow. [/QUOTE]
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