IMac 27" what priority for upgrades ?

[not2secure4u]

I have an SSD in my computer atm and yea sure its great, I just dont know whether it the best for my money if I were to choose between an SSD or a combination of i7 and 2gb of video ram.

 

[dakhein]

Top model

1. SSD
2. i7 (apps that will take advantage of hyper-threading)
3. 2GB video upgrade (run multiple displays)

As it has already been mentioned before, AppleCare and RAM can be added later with little to no effort.

Adding an additional drive or upgrading one is not worth your time, money, and most importantly your peace of mind figuring out what drive to get, where to get it done, and your downtime for your machine being in the shop (cuz you wouldn't want to void your warranty). You might as well just save a little more money and get a BTO with exactly what you want.

After using SSD's I would never go back to using HDDs as my OS/App drive. But if you never had one you don't know what you're missing. For gaming, the SSD is awesome because think of the time you wait for a map to load. It's a very significant amount of time.

 

[not2secure4u]

Top model

1. SSD
2. i7 (apps that will take advantage of hyper-threading)
3. 2GB video upgrade (run multiple displays)

As it has already been mentioned before, AppleCare and RAM can be added later with little to no effort.

Adding an additional drive or upgrading one is not worth your time, money, and most importantly your peace of mind figuring out what drive to get, where to get it done, and your downtime for your machine being in the shop (cuz you wouldn't want to void your warranty). You might as well just save a little more money and get a BTO with exactly what you want.

After using SSD's I would never go back to using HDDs as my OS/App drive. But if you never had one you don't know what you're missing. For gaming, the SSD is awesome because think of the time you wait for a map to load. It's a very significant amount of time.

Awesome, I guess SSD it will be then !

 

[lamboman]

To be honest, I would just stick with the top end model and not upgrade anything. You really won't make use of the extra power.

However, if you upgrade anything, the SSD would be the way to go, but I'd really forget the rest. The extra graphics memory won't make any difference for any application to be honest (you'll run out of GPU power far before you run out of graphics memory), and you don't need extra memory to run multiple monitors, in reality. i7 will give you HyperThreading and a tad more performance, but for music and gaming there again won't really be any difference.

 

[not2secure4u]

To be honest, I would just stick with the top end model and not upgrade anything. You really won't make use of the extra power.

However, if you upgrade anything, the SSD would be the way to go, but I'd really forget the rest. The extra graphics memory won't make any difference for any application to be honest (you'll run out of GPU power far before you run out of graphics memory), and you don't need extra memory to run multiple monitors, in reality. i7 will give you HyperThreading and a tad more performance, but for music and gaming there again won't really be any difference.

I did this, just ordered the standard top model. Thanks guys for all the info.