27" iMac advice

Depends on what you are using it for. Does it have to be 3TB Fusion? No 2TB Fusion or 1TB Fusion? Can you store the excess data in an external? Do you really need Fusion vs a small SSD or plain hard drive?

 

3TB is a heck of a lot of data. Also, is there any reason that you HAVE to store the media on the internal drive? I mean are you going to access the entire 3TB of media frequently enough to warrant having 3TB over 2TB?

If you're just storing media, why the 680MX? Are the games you play able to take advantage of that GPU? Or would something lesser be just as good?

 

I am filming a documentary and it took about a little over a year I think to fill up my 2 TB hard drive. I recently moved that off onto an external and have plenty of space left again.

Do you do a lot of video work? Or are you saving a lot of movies onto your hard drive that you can't just access it on externals?

 

Consider getting the 1TB Fusion, 3.4 i7 and 680MX if you can't wait for a CTO machine with a 3 TB Fusion drives. You can use external drives for some of your data. Maybe use one as an archive for completed work that doesn't need to be on you internal drive.

A CTO iMac with the standard delivery for a US customer will take under 2 weeks to get. In fact it's possible to have it in only a week if you get lucky.

You know your buying options. Flip a coin of you have to for deciding between the 1 and 3 TB Fusion drives.