What's your Configuration?

[Gelite55]

What's your 2012 iMac Configuration?

[jetjaguar]

in my sig

[Richard Peters]

After much deliberation I Went all in. Ordered a 27 with everything a couple days ago. No idea when it'll arrive though

[snugja]

3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM-2X4GB
768GB Flash Storage
NVIDIAGeFrc GTX 680MX 2G GDDR5
MAGIC TRACKPAD
Apple WL Kybd (English)+UG

Excited to open this puppy up tomorrow! Well, might wait till Christmas to make this even better!

[Sjhonny]

i7, 680 MX (+ external SSD)

[memory-minus]

Originally Posted by Sjhonny

i7, 680 MX (+ external SSD)

I would like to run the external SSD setup... how are you doing it? Thunderbolt enclosure, USB 3, etc?

[NVRENUF!]

27"
3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
24gb 1600MHz DDR3
120gb SSD
680MX 2G GDDR5
Magic Trackpad and Mouse
Wireless Apple keyboard and sometimes my logitech one.
Apple super Drive

[Sjhonny]

Originally Posted by memory-minus

I would like to run the external SSD setup... how are you doing it? Thunderbolt enclosure, USB 3, etc?

Thunderbolt enclosure (Amazon) + Thunderbolt Cable + Samsung S830 series 256 GB

read = 360, write = 310 (: But I had some issues with installing OS X. When I tried a fresh install, using the recovery partition, I ended up having to wait for over 40 (!) hours to get the download of additional components done. Booting and installing from a pendrive (USB 2.0) didn't work either, although this trick did the job on my MacBook Air. I just ended up cloning the SSD of my MBA to the enclosure (worked like a charm).

[obsoletepower]

Originally Posted by Sjhonny

Thunderbolt enclosure (Amazon) + Thunderbolt Cable + Samsung S830 series 256 GB

read = 360, write = 310 (: But I had some issues with installing OS X. When I tried a fresh install, using the recovery partition, I ended up having to wait for over 40 (!) hours to get the download of additional components done. Booting and installing from a pendrive (USB 2.0) didn't work either, although this trick did the job on my MacBook Air. I just ended up cloning the SSD of my MBA to the enclosure (worked like a charm).

That enclosure is utter crap when used with an SSD. Because it is bus powered instead of using its own power source it is very unstable. You should have gotten the Seagate desktop adapter which would eliminate the problems you had.

[Sjhonny]

Originally Posted by obsoletepower

That enclosure is utter crap when used with an SSD. Because it is bus powered instead of using its own power source it is very unstable. You should have gotten the Seagate desktop adapter which would eliminate the problems you had.

Euhmmmm ... all issues seemed iMac 2012 related ... I don't see how failing to download something has anything to do with a "crappy" ssd enclosure ...

Where did you hear bus powering makes external devices unstable?

[boy-better-know]

Got my iMac last wednesday;
27" with 3.4 core i7, 8GB ram, 1TB fusion drive, GTX 680MX 2GB.
Still undecided if I want 32 or 16 GB of ram. Will order from crucial in january.
Does anyone know if I will have any issues if I put two sticks of 8 in with the two sticks of four that come with the iMac? Cheers.

[torana355]

27" 3.4Ghz i7. 8GB Ram, 680MX with 3TB fusion running windows

[Sjhonny]

Originally Posted by torana355

27" 3.4Ghz i7. 8GB Ram, 680MX with 3TB fusion running windows

You can't enable Fusion in Windows. It's on OS X thing.

[darkangel7696]

Originally Posted by obsoletepower

That enclosure is utter crap when used with an SSD. Because it is bus powered instead of using its own power source it is very unstable. You should have gotten the Seagate desktop adapter which would eliminate the problems you had.

For $50 more at Amazon, you could have purchased the desktop version, which already includes a thunderbolt cable. Plus, it gives you the ability to daisy chain devices.

I am still debating whether to get a 27" iMac /w 3TB fusion drive + one of these desktop adapters pared with a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB or Intel 520 240GB ssd or just get a iMac /w 3TB HD and have an external 1TB little big disk SSD.

I will be spending most of my time in Mac OS X/Linux and Windows for the occasional gaming/blu-ray ripping and encoding. I would be running the little big disk in JBOD instead of raid 0/1. My concern with the little big disk is that it is using last generation ssd drives.

[memory-minus]

Originally Posted by darkangel7696

For $50 more at Amazon, you could have purchased the desktop version, which already includes a thunderbolt cable.

Thanks for the link, but it doesn't say anything about that adapter including a Thunderbolt cable.

[darkangel7696]

Originally Posted by memory-minus

Thanks for the link, but it doesn't say anything about that adapter including a Thunderbolt cable.

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I stand corrected. However, this is the correct model to buy that comes with an an adapter and has 2 thunderbolt ports. Unfortunately, to get the extra thunderbolt cable you'll have to buy the desktop adapter with a goflex 3.5 hdd paired together.

[memory-minus]

Originally Posted by darkangel7696

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I stand corrected. However, this is the correct model to buy that comes with an an adapter and has 2 thunderbolt ports. Unfortunately, to get the extra thunderbolt cable you'll have to buy the desktop adapter with a goflex 3.5 hdd paired together.

Well, FWIW, the adapter + 3TB GoFlex drive + Apple FW cable is more than $50 less than the same capacity bundle from Seagate.

[MacCruiZe]

Originally Posted by torana355

27" 3.4Ghz i7. 8GB Ram, 680MX with 3TB fusion running windows

same as this for me !! Should arrive some time this week... Planning on doing the 3TB Fusion Terminal Hack (for bootcamp)... - others have confirmed it works. I'll give Windows about 700GB rest for

[bembol]

I don't have but when I order my 27" it will be the Base.

I didn't really want to upgrade anything. Tight budget, especially now that I decided I'm going to keep my Base Mid-2012 Air. The plan was to sell it once Apple release a new iMac.

3TB or 1TB Fusion Drive?

[MacCruiZe]

Originally Posted by bembol

3TB or 1TB Fusion Drive?

I know money doesn't grow on trees - but for $150 more, you get 3x the storage space. So I went with the 3. It seems impossible to fill either one, but you might need it some day !