Hello everyone! I couldn't find a similar thread so I thought I'd ask here.
Here's the deal, I'm looking into buying the 2012 iMac once it's released, but my budget limits me to choose between either maxing out the CPU and GPU or to go with an SSD harddrive. I'm going to use it for school (nothing fancy), amateur-photoediting, webbrowsing and the occasional gaming (preferably games like Diablo III, Skyrim etc.). It will most likley serve as my TV as well, i.e. watching downloaded media etc. Storage is not a problem since I'm going to be using an Time Capsule to store TV-shows, photos etc.
I really like the fast loadingtimes and quiet and energyefficient experience that comes with an SSD, but I'm caught on the fence wether it will be worth the sacrifice of the faster proscessor.
To make it simple, if I would buy it today, the options would be;
27" iMac
2,7 GHz i5
4 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB GDDR5
or
27" iMac
3,4 GHz i7
4 GB RAM
1TB Serial ATA
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1 GB GDDR5
So what do you smart folks out there reccomend for me? Sorry for a long post.
Here's the deal, I'm looking into buying the 2012 iMac once it's released, but my budget limits me to choose between either maxing out the CPU and GPU or to go with an SSD harddrive. I'm going to use it for school (nothing fancy), amateur-photoediting, webbrowsing and the occasional gaming (preferably games like Diablo III, Skyrim etc.). It will most likley serve as my TV as well, i.e. watching downloaded media etc. Storage is not a problem since I'm going to be using an Time Capsule to store TV-shows, photos etc.
I really like the fast loadingtimes and quiet and energyefficient experience that comes with an SSD, but I'm caught on the fence wether it will be worth the sacrifice of the faster proscessor.
To make it simple, if I would buy it today, the options would be;
27" iMac
2,7 GHz i5
4 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB GDDR5
or
27" iMac
3,4 GHz i7
4 GB RAM
1TB Serial ATA
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1 GB GDDR5
So what do you smart folks out there reccomend for me? Sorry for a long post.