I've been partly looking at the iMac - tossing up between that and the Mac mini basically - and the all-in-on aspect of the iMac has always appealed to me for many years, but when I look at the design of the iMac nowadays and how fixed-in the RAM, HDD etc. is (and how much Apple charges for these separate BTO upgrades), I wonder how much I really would need to upgrade to 16GB RAM along with a Fusion Drive. I've been used to upgrading the RAM to its maximum capacity in all the Macs I've had (current is a 2006 17" 1.83 Core Duo), so to be stuck with the amount of RAM that I buy at purchase doesn't fit right with me in terms of future use - case in point that I'm using my white iMac quite a few years on!
If I upgraded the base mode iMac with a Fusion Drive and 16GB RAM it would cost £1468, versus 'only' £1309 just with the Fusion Drive upgrade. Would I be mad to try and save the £160 of the 16GB RAM upgrade and go just for the FD, or should I go for the RAM as well in the name of how many years I usually use these machines for?
(NB: This is all predicated on me valuing a Fusion Drive upgrade more than a RAM upgrade to 16GB - maybe this is wrong?)
If I upgraded the base mode iMac with a Fusion Drive and 16GB RAM it would cost £1468, versus 'only' £1309 just with the Fusion Drive upgrade. Would I be mad to try and save the £160 of the 16GB RAM upgrade and go just for the FD, or should I go for the RAM as well in the name of how many years I usually use these machines for?
(NB: This is all predicated on me valuing a Fusion Drive upgrade more than a RAM upgrade to 16GB - maybe this is wrong?)