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rossd632

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I am looking to buy a 21.5 Inch iMac within the month but im not quite sure of which model is best suited for me. Im going to be using it mainly for video editing in FCP X and Adobe After Effects along with the occasional gaming. What do you guys recomend? Thanks in advance!
 
I am looking to buy a 21.5 Inch iMac within the month but im not quite sure of which model is best suited for me. Im going to be using it mainly for video editing in FCP X and Adobe After Effects along with the occasional gaming. What do you guys recommend?

These are benchmarking tests that may give some idea of the speed differences for gaming and some processor demanding tasks:

FOUR 'mid 2011' iMacs versus ONE 'mid 2010' iMac
http://barefeats.com/imac11b.html


GAMING SHOOTOUT: 2011 iMacs vs others
http://barefeats.com/imac11c.html
 
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