imac advice

[jortymor]

Which is a better choice, the entry level imac with the ATI 2600 graphics or the current one with Gforce 9400. Macconnection has a great price on the previous one and throw in a wireless keyboard and mouse. Also, what is the diffrence with the DDR2 vs DDR3?

 

[spinnerlys]

The ATI has dedicated memory and the NVIDIA shares the memory with the system's RAM.
ATI 2600 vs 9400m


DDR2 has less MHz (in the iMac) than DDR3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM
DDR2 vs DDR3

 

[jortymor]

I leaning towards the previous 20 inch as it is 150 bucks less. Will it be ok with the new snow leopard system?

 

[veterator]

As long as it's Intel it should be fine with Snow Leopard. I would go with the 20'.

 

[zedsdead]

I would get the iMac with the nvidia card because the radeon pro 2600 will not work with openCL in Snow Leopard. Just a thought.

 

[jortymor]

I'm leaning towards the new one as you suggested plus I read some other threads that mentioned the screen being better. Also, getting an ipod touch thrown it helps sweeten the deal. I manily use my current emac for web surfing and managing about 100GB of tunes. I do very little photo stuff or playing games.