imac advice

[jortymor]

Which is a better choice, the entry level imac with the ATI 2600 graphics or the current one with Gforce 9400. Macconnection has a great price on the previous one and throw in a wireless keyboard and mouse. Also, what is the diffrence with the DDR2 vs DDR3?

[spinnerlys]

The ATI has dedicated memory and the NVIDIA shares the memory with the system's RAM.
ATI 2600 vs 9400m (http://www.google.com/cse?cx=011016119145480959114%3Akuv1aq0hily&ie=UTF-8&q=ati+2600+vs+9400m+site%3Aforums.macrumors.com&hl=en&as_qdr=all&meta=)


DDR2 has less MHz (in the iMac) than DDR3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM
DDR2 vs DDR3 (http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=pub-0384375415523482&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fmroogle.edesignuk.com%3BCX%3AMRoogle%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F% 2Fmroogle.edesignuk.com%2FMRoogleSmall.gif%3BLH%3A56%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23551A8B%3BDIV%3A%23CCCCCC%3B&as_qdr=all&adkw=AELymgVaMIBZVEwQeEZkOyfFjQAZGiqzA_I4HXPUU0MYEOAM-D6por0DAt8nhCMwVVNT4_pMwOoQaSmYfec93EK_AqxFA7lKOryXgY0iAdV98G-crl1bYeUQh5GIJq5_8C4SWHmAY3z8uyvfgCg2NOaG01Z05671Mg&boostcse=0&q=ddr2+vs+ddr3+site%3Aforums.macrumors.com&btnG=Search&cx=011016119145480959114%3Akuv1aq0hily)

[jortymor]

I leaning towards the previous 20 inch as it is 150 bucks less. Will it be ok with the new snow leopard system?

[veterator]

As long as it's Intel it should be fine with Snow Leopard. I would go with the 20'.

[zedsdead]

I would get the iMac with the nvidia card because the radeon pro 2600 will not work with openCL in Snow Leopard. Just a thought.

[jortymor]

I'm leaning towards the new one as you suggested plus I read some other threads that mentioned the screen being better. Also, getting an ipod touch thrown it helps sweeten the deal. I manily use my current emac for web surfing and managing about 100GB of tunes. I do very little photo stuff or playing games.