which imac? 24 3.06 with GT130 OR 21.5 with 4670?

[elmillerm3]

I am about to get an imac and trying to decide between a refurbished 24" with 3.06, 4mb ram, 1TB drive, gt130 612 mbcard which was $2200 new and now is $1349 OR a new 21.5" with same ram and drive but the ati 4670 256 card ($1399) from macmall. I am leaning towards the 24" since it has a bigger screen and what I think is a better graphics card but would appreciate any advise. Will mainly use for how video & photo editing (not pro stuff). Thanks

 

[Hellhammer]

I would get the 24". 21.5" has LED backlight and 4 RAM slots but its GPU is worse than GT130

 

[silentnite]

Surfing the web just a little while ago and came across this. Very interesting! http://tinyurl.com/yl53mq6 😕

 

[elmillerm3]

pretty interesting read

Looks like no difference between the old and new systems.

 

[Badger^2]

either will be more than fine.

if you look in some other posts, this has already been debated...

several in here

https://forums.macrumors.com/forums/91/