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Considering an iMac

  • 09-05-2012 2:55am
    #1
    digiman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,258 ✭✭✭


    I'm thinking about getting an iMac. I have never owned an apple pc before, and never even used one for any long period of time. I have always used a windows pc so I am very unfamiliar with apple.

    I would mainly be using it for playing poker and browsing the internet, would also be storing music and films. At the moment I am using a laptop with a 256Gb SSD but I am always having to delete films after I watch them to free up space for more. I use my laptop alot as a media server that I can stream the films to the my bluray player with a program called PS3 media server and this works really well for me, is there a similar solution for iMac?

    So I will most likely get the 27" model, but wondering are the extra addons worth it? I have an SSD at the moment and it cost me about E350 or so I think, apple charge a decent bit more for this, the extra RAM is also a lot more expensive so wondering are iMacs pretty fast as they are with the standard specs or are they worth upgrading for? The better GFX card is cheap enough and the higher processer isn't to expensive but when you add in everything it really ramps up the price so I am wondering am I likely to need these? I could go down the route of upgrading them myself but it doesn't seem all the straight forward to do really and I would void the warranty.

    Any thought on this would be appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Ram will be a lot cheaper to upgrade yourself. It's a piece of piss to do as well. The SSD would be cheaper to upgrade yourself as well (Crucial M4s are the bees knees and the 256GB version is available for under £200), I'm not sure how easy that is to actually install yourself though. I'd recommend getting an SSD, they are brilliant and going back to a standard hard drive after using one would be painful. Memory probably wouldn't be needed but it's cheap as chips if you buy it from another retailer. An 8GB kit would cost about €40/50 bringing you up to 12GB, it's complete overkill but still nice.

    As for the graphics and processor, for what you're using it for, you'd be fine with the base spec which is pretty high as it is.


  • #3
    silvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,132 ✭✭✭silvine


    There's a refresh around the corner. I'd hold off a few weeks.


  • #4
    macsauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭macsauce


    Id agree with AlmightyCushion, for what your doing the standard specs will be fine. If space is an issue how about getting a thunderbolt external harddrive and transferring movies etc across to it. The much faster transfer speed will mean its not that much bother at all. I wouldnt recommend spending a lot of money on it unless youre actually gonna be using it and getting value from it


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