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Specs for the iMac I am seconds away from purchasing. THOUGHTS?

Amnesiac1 said:
Tell me more about that Thunderbolt option...
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Let me fix the heading of this post:
Specs for the iMac I am DAYS away from purchasing. THOUGHTS?

So wait, you dont know what a Thunderbolt port is or what it does or offers? LOL!

You do realize that if the 2TB drive were faster, this number would only be measured in seconds, and the only way to show the difference would be in very scientific benchmark tests. Day to day performance is identical.

The apple rep suggested the 256 gig SSD cause thats all he has to offer.

So your main Mac is a MBP with a 320 gig drive? How full is that?
 
Badger^2 said:
Let me fix the heading of this post:
Specs for the iMac I am DAYS away from purchasing. THOUGHTS?

So wait, you dont know what a Thunderbolt port is or what it does or offers? LOL!

You do realize that if the 2TB drive were faster, this number would only be measured in seconds, and the only way to show the difference would be in very scientific benchmark tests. Day to day performance is identical.

The apple rep suggested the 256 gig SSD cause thats all he has to offer.

So your main Mac is a MBP with a 320 gig drive? How full is that?
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Another patronizing post.

I have 198.43 GB free on my 320 GB.
 
Hi again,
"Specs for the iMac I am seconds away from purchasing."
You posted this 10 this morning - I think your 'seconds' are way gone...
And there is a need to run 2 posts like that???
 

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And here I thought Badger was the anomaly. Anyone else want to emerge and toss in their acerbic two cents?
 
Badger^2 said:
You do realize that if the 2TB drive were faster, this number would only be measured in seconds, and the only way to show the difference would be in very scientific benchmark tests. Day to day performance is identical.
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You seem to have a habit of going into threads, dropping a bunch of information like this as if it is undisputed fact, and then never responding to anyone when they ask you further questions.

How can you corroborate this claim, for instance? That is, that the differences in speed between the 1TB and the 2TB will be negligible? Can you back up your claim? John's claims are at least echoed in articles like the one I took the following excerpt from:

Your smart performance move: use the largest possible drive even when only a portion of it is needed (assuming as fast or faster drive speed for a larger capacity drive).
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Source: http://macperformanceguide.com/Storage-BiggerIsBetter.html.
 
Stan, can you do me a favour and stop highlighting redundant posts and contribute to the thread at hand?
 
You didnt read the whole article.

It dealt with slowdowns over time after a drive gets "full". This is pretty common knowledge among most computer savvy people. The more full a drive is the less overhead space it has to perform well. So 900 gigs on a 1TB drive will cause the 1TB drive to run slower than 900 gigs on a 3TB drive. What the article fails to mention is that this performance statistic only applies to the system drive. Storage drives are unaffected by this limit.

Reality: You only have used 100 gigs of a 300 gig drive over the last 4 years. Correct?

So now you want to get a machine with 1,250 gigs or even 2,250 gigs. I cant imagine, based on your past usage, that you will even fill the stock 256 gig SSD in the next 3+ years. So getting either 1250 or 2250 gigs seems overkill? Or at least the potential for you to *ever* fill either of the drives enough to make a dent in it performance is highly unlikely.

I dont remember *all* of your posts (do you?) -- but I dont remember where you mentioned what exactly you plan on doing with this $3000 iMac. Even if you wanted to start dabbling in say minor video editing, it will still take you a really long time to even make a dent in the space.

And you can alway add more external space.

I think you need to go back and read all of your previous posts -- if you havent finally bought the iMac -- there are many, many questions you have asked and have been answered several times.

Dont take this the wrong way, but your posting history suggest to me that you might suffer from a form of OCD.
 
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Well, I'm going for the 2TB, I think... just to play it safe. With the education discount, it is a difference of $135, so why not do it, right?
 
Just take the 1TB drive and buy an external 2TB drive with fw800 for all your mediafiles. Try to keep you systemdisk as clean as possible.
 
Amnesiac1 said:
Why do you say that?
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By not making a decision you can’t make a mistake.
Wrong! No decision is a decision, and often not a good one.

There is only one right answer.
Fortunately this is rarely the case, but thinking this way makes the prospect of decision-making overwhelming.

Before making a decision you must be 100 percent sure of it.
This condition is virtually impossible. Human beings are complex, and can react to a decision in many different ways at the same time. Further, we can’t see the future, so it is impossible to predict the outcome of a decision with certainty. In short, 85 percent is about as good as it gets.

Just sayin: http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/demystifying-decision-making/
 
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