I have a 2011, i7, 120gb OWC SSD 6g, 16gb ram, 2.7Ghz mac mini and Im sick
of that computer by now ! in 5 years I had only one problem with it and it
was Ram. After 4 years they went bad and had to send them back for
replacement (I got ram memory online eBay/or amazon) but DAMN IT. This
computer doesn't want to fail break or slow down.I honestly see no reason
to upgrade it to a new one other than weak graphics card that it has :( In
old days I would get a PC and after a year or two it would either go
extremely slow or start developing mother board problems etc... I had a
good reason to get a new computer and after a month or two of frustration
at windows I would remain satisfied with my new PC. But MAC ? ?!!#@$^^%@
damn it lol. and i can't stop wondering why you have only 8gb of ram ? If i
got an iMac like yours a 32 or 64gb ram upgrade would be first step id
make... btw i have a 120gb SSD and a second hard drive that I installed for
basically everything else with just a cable that i got somewhere off
internet 750gb lol damn
+Michal K I'm not a gamer at all lol, but everyone said they wanted to see games so I played some free to play games here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBxPEb3HQ98 . It was by far my most disliked video of all time lol. But I did play them all in full 5k resolution.
+Michal K Haha, a good problem to have! I got the 8GB because I only work in the summer and couldn't afford to get an iMac with these specs and with more ram. This summer I may get more ram online and install it myself. Would that be a video you're interested in seeing?
+Darth Vader Well I have the 2TB fusion so I got the 128 GB SSD in my machine. The 24 GB SSD wouldn't be able to fit much more on it than the OS so it wouldn't be that helpful for apps at all. The 128 GB SSD is great though.
+Tech with Matthew so how fast is that 24gb ssd?is it even good enough for anything? the space is too lessand how Mac osx shifts most used APPS to flash storage? that's a very neat feature if Mac osx
Great pc for sure but I honestly think imac are for video editing and
things of that nature. I really want to buy one but I am a hardcore gamer
so I might just buy two more titan x's instead.
Yeah, they are more video editing, programming, things like that. I've been using my for programming and making these YouTube videos I'm not really a gamer. On rare occasion I'll play some small games like extreme airplane landings from the Mac App Store but that's pretty much it.
Well, I did get the chance to try out the 5K iMac at Best Buy this
afternoon, and thought it was amazing with the demo model they had (which
is the $1,999 version, I think). That might wind up being the configuration
I'm going for, since my Windows PC that I built last spring is still going
to be my primary computer (mostly for gaming and entertainment). However,
since I'm looking at the iMac for a productivity computer, more than
anything, like MS Office, photo and video editing off my iPad Air 2, and
possibly XCode for iOS App Development, I'm probably not looking at much
more than a RAM upgrade, and adding on an external 2 - 3TB HDD at most.
However, the version you have is probably for more intensive tasks than
general editing and/or productivity suites?
+Robert Morin I decided to give this a try. I took a 1080p video on my iPad Air 2, and exported a 30 second clip in Adobe Premiere upscaled to 4k. It took my computer 3 minutes and 37 seconds.
Actually, I'm kind of wondering how much power under the hood I would need to upscale iPad Air video to 4K resolution, or at least maintain a solid 1080p resolution on a 5K iMac...that might be something to consider.
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