Hi everyone, I am considering purchasing a new iMac and have the following questions.
First, as background, I currently have a PowerPC G5 iMac that I purchased almost exactly 3 years ago. It has 1GB of ram, the 17 inch screen and a 160GB hard drive. Unfortunately, I do not recall the processor speed but its pre-intel for sure. When I purchased it the OS was Tiger and everything worked just fine. However, about a year ago I upgraded to Leopard and have noted that VO is much slower and not very responsive. I believe the answer to this would be to install more RAM. Yet, it might be better to take that money and anything I can get selling the current iMac I have and purchase a new one with more RAM, a higher processor speed, larger screen, Etc. With that said, here are my questions. 1. Does anyone have some concept of what a good selling point might be for a 3-year-old iMac? 2. For those of you using the newer iMac computers, there are several different configurations I could choose from. I’m going to get the 24 inch screen but am trying to decide between the 3GHZ or 2.8GHZ models. There is about a $400 price difference between the two. I guess a better way to put this is to ask whether more RAM or a faster processor is more important for performance. I will be using the iMac for audio editing, watching video and my wife will probably do some video editing too. 3. I’ve heard rumblings that Apple might be releasing new iMacs soon that will probably have a different Intel chip in them. Yet it seems that Apple just updated these machines not long ago. Does anyone have any kind of gut feeling about whether it’s a good idea to wait or to go ahead? I also have a Macbook Pro that I purchased in May of 2007. And, not a month later, Apple released models with faster processors and configurations. I know this happens all the time but if I can make a reasonably informed decision it would be great. Thanks to anyone who can offer some insights here.
