Hi there. To answer some of your questions, of course this is opinion
based:)
I have the 2.8 processor and didn't feel that the upgrade of .2 to 3
is worth $400.00 you could probably buy an extra couple gigs of ram
and an external hd for that kind of money. The other question being
asked regarding whether or not to wait for the "new" imac, This drifts
in to the realms of both personal preference and how much you need to
be doing tasks now verses later. The imac was last refreshed in april
of 2008.
Hope this helps some.
On 1-Dec-08, at 3:49 PM, <[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.
