Thinking of buying the cheapest 27" 5k iMac and upgrading the 1Tb drive to a 2Tb fuison (as per the advice from many of the experts here!). I will be sharing this computer with my fiance (so often two accounts running and switching back and forth), aperture (maybe lightroom in the future), a very occasional photoshop and iMovie, browsing, email and some video format converting. If it is powerful enough I might run parallel as well at times for the better MS Excel in windows.
My key concern from my previous late 2009 21" imac (lowest end spec) was that using aperture to edit RAW pictures (Canon 6D, 25-30mb usually) has gotten really really slow and my main goal is to have a much more fluid editing experience. Also I want to ensure running two accounts constantly in OS X is smooth. I also plan to use this computer for 5+ years. Is this spec good enough/too much for what I want?
Summary
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display
My key concern from my previous late 2009 21" imac (lowest end spec) was that using aperture to edit RAW pictures (Canon 6D, 25-30mb usually) has gotten really really slow and my main goal is to have a much more fluid editing experience. Also I want to ensure running two accounts constantly in OS X is smooth. I also plan to use this computer for 5+ years. Is this spec good enough/too much for what I want?
Summary
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display
- 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
- 8GB 1867MHz DDR3 SDRAM - two 4GB (maybe upgrade this elsewhere later)
- 2TB Fusion Drive
- AMD Radeon R9 M380 with 2GB video memory
- Magic Mouse 2
