My partner and I are currently using two early-2009 24-inch iMacs for home office and gaming, Recently we have noticed that they are getting increasingly slower as software requirements move on.
My question, is it a good time to purchase, we generally keep our macs for 4-5 years so we are like to buy the top end specs to give maximum life. Would we be better waiting for the Broardwell CPU upgrades next year, from what I have read it seems it might not be worthwhile as the bulk the improvement seems to be in areas that won't have that much impact on a desktop.
Just to give an idea we were thinking of upgrading in early March 2015. Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.
EDIT: As it stands it will be a big jump, from what I can tell the iMac Retina (top spec) is about 15x faster than what we are using now.
Gary
My question, is it a good time to purchase, we generally keep our macs for 4-5 years so we are like to buy the top end specs to give maximum life. Would we be better waiting for the Broardwell CPU upgrades next year, from what I have read it seems it might not be worthwhile as the bulk the improvement seems to be in areas that won't have that much impact on a desktop.
Just to give an idea we were thinking of upgrading in early March 2015. Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.
EDIT: As it stands it will be a big jump, from what I can tell the iMac Retina (top spec) is about 15x faster than what we are using now.
Gary