I also have one of the G5 iMacs as well. My kid is using it and some
processes admittedly cause the fans to ramp up, but it seems to keep
up pretty well with 1.5Gb ram. Now, as far as price, I have no idea, I
have a Mini here I had toyed with the idea of selling as well. If you
can afford the $400, I'd go with the 3.0, but if you really want to do
it right, upgrade the ram which in the end would be more worthwhile
than the 3.0Ghz processor. The nice part is the newer iMac uses DDR3
ram and that's the unit I'm currently using. Of course I'm in the
market for a MacBook or Macbook Pro, still haven't decided, but you
can bet I'll have nothing less than 4Gb of ram. Where one can get
rapped around the axle and I'm guilty of this is processor speed. If
the machine is running DDR3 ram, the ram is running at about 1066Mhz
which is the FSB and so things kick along really nicely. I'm sure some
will argue, but well hey, I guess it's a matter of getting the best
bang for the buck and besides, what do I know, I just compute here. :)
On Dec 1, 2008, at 3:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Scott Howell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
