Sorry for this annoying thread. I'm looking to buy an iMac BTO and sell my MBP in my signature but I cannot decide on which setup. I DO NOT play games, I do every day tasks and HEAVY photoshop with large PSDs and RAWs. Handbrake to rip movies, email, web, Adobe Flash and Premier here and there. Some web development as well sometimes. I was looking to do a 256GB SSD + 1TB setup but not sure of which CPU. Any advice on which setup? 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 2560 x 1440 resolution 4GB (two 2GB) memory 1TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive [Add $540.00] ATI Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB or 3.1GHz Intel Core i5 2560 x 1440 resolution 4GB (two 2GB) memory 1TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State Drive [Add $540.00] ATI Radeon HD 6970M with 1GB
If you are not going to play games, I'd suggest choose the 6770M GPU. Last I checked, Photoshop is not going to take any advantages the faster 6970M GPU offers. Also the slight increase in CPU clock frequency not going to have major affects on the tasks you listed.