I have been holding out for a new iMac for about 1 year, but now i can't decide on what to get.
Currently I have a 24" 2008 iMac with 4GB RAM, 3.06Ghz C2D, Nvidia 8800 GS 512MB and 1TB Hard Disk. I originally purchased this because I wanted to play games via Windows on bootcamp, as well as use OSX for day to day tasks Now my windows partition is long gone, and most of my gaming is done on my iPad
My iMac is now getting a little slow and i am thinking of passing it down to my kids
The new computer i purchase will be used for the following:
Web Browsing
Plex Media Server, inc transcoding to IOS clients
Email
iPhoto etc
My question is: Do i really need a new 27" iMac? Would a middle range mac mini i7, fusion drive and with a nice monitor do the same job for a lot less?
Currently I have a 24" 2008 iMac with 4GB RAM, 3.06Ghz C2D, Nvidia 8800 GS 512MB and 1TB Hard Disk. I originally purchased this because I wanted to play games via Windows on bootcamp, as well as use OSX for day to day tasks Now my windows partition is long gone, and most of my gaming is done on my iPad
My iMac is now getting a little slow and i am thinking of passing it down to my kids
The new computer i purchase will be used for the following:
Web Browsing
Plex Media Server, inc transcoding to IOS clients
iPhoto etc
My question is: Do i really need a new 27" iMac? Would a middle range mac mini i7, fusion drive and with a nice monitor do the same job for a lot less?