The old iMac has 16 gigs of memory, which should be adequate. I knew I could use the iMac as a monitor with the laptop, but I really need two large monitors for my journalism and marketing work so that I can open five or more docs at once. And that 5k display is stunning. I want the upgrade!
Paul via phone > On Oct 2, 2015, at 5:44 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2015-10-02 11:16 , paul stenquist wrote: >> My 2010 iMac 27 is getting long in the tooth. But I was okay with it until I >> bought a Mac Pro laptop for on the road use. The speed of the new computer >> spoiled me. What’s more, I think the old Mac might have a bad internal >> drive. Spends too much time spinning it now and then. So I ordered an iMac >> 27 with the 5K Retina display, an i7 4-core 4 gig processor, a 3 terabyte >> fusion drive and 32 gigs of ram. I’ll use the old iMac as a second monitor >> and retire my cheapo 23-inch NEC. Came to about 3K with Apple Care. Not bad. > > the old iMac could serve as a second display for your laptop; it may have > just been short on memory — heavy hard drive activity can often mean it's > just using the drive for virtual memory; will also make it seem pretty slow > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
