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What is the primary use for your new iMacs going to be?

I will spend the most time doing work, which includes design

Then home stuff, including photography related tasks

Maybe a tiny bit of gaming last


Had laptops for years docked with monitors. Time for a desktop companion again.
 
bp1000 said:
I will spend the most time doing work, which includes design

Then home stuff, including photography related tasks

Maybe a tiny bit of gaming last


Had laptops for years docked with monitors. Time for a desktop companion again.
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this, minus the design work ;-)
 
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Whenever I upgrade, my uses will be the same as my existing iMac:

writing (using various screenplay and word processing software), taking online classes, image editing with Pixelmator, light graphic/web design, the occasional video burning, surfing, posting to Macrumors, and other boards, reading comics online etc..

No social media or games for me.
 
I currently have my MBA connected to a 22" Cinema Display via TB-DVI adapter and it would just be nice to have a dedicated desktop mac. That and, the iMac will have like 3x the space (128GB vs 320GB drive).

This iMac will have a main focus of Logic Pro X and maybe I will see how well Adobe Premiere likes the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.
 
Art (Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro)
Animation (Flash, After Effects, Audition)
3d modelling and animation (blender)
Games (Steam Sales, SimCity, Boot Camp)
 
- Development (Go, Vagrant, tons of packages via Homebrew, etc.)
- Gaming (Guild Wars 2, BF4 and whatever else I can find the time for!)
- Photography (Lightroom & Photoshop)
- Some minimal video editing (FCPX, mostly).

I typically shoot for the best CPU, GPU and disk (Fusion) I can. 12 - 16GB of RAM usually does the trick for me - any more seems to be overkill.
 
I just need a computer for the web surfing, bill-paying, Net-Flix watching, and occasional gaming.

But, I have to go iMac for xCode in my goal to release iOS apps.

Been learning C++, Objective-C, and xCode on a 13" MBP. Seriously thinking I need a base-line 21.5" iMac to really turn and burn, though.
 
gavinstubbs09 said:
I currently have my MBA connected to a 22" Cinema Display via TB-DVI adapter and it would just be nice to have a dedicated desktop mac. That and, the iMac will have like 3x the space (128GB vs 320GB drive).

This iMac will have a main focus of Logic Pro X and maybe I will see how well Adobe Premiere likes the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo.
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Are you buying a used iMac or something?
 
I plan on hacking into most of the worlds nuclear arsenal and then pretty much controlling everything from my bedroom. ;)

ps: if that doesn't work out,then mainly internet...
 
Photography (Lightroom & Photoshop), Design (Illustrator & InDesign), Gaming and hopefully some Video Editing soon :)
 
Primary use? You mean I have to pick one? In no particular order:

software development
video editing
running virtual machines (ie, parallels)
low level tweaking and hoping I do not cause something TOO bad to go wrong
usual consumer stuff (word processing, blogs, surfing, etc)
goofing off (ie, games and second life)
 
gavinstubbs09 said:
I will get it tomorrow! Can't wait. It's a old 2007 model. My MBA needs a break cause the fans are always at max in this thing and one day it's just going to kill itself from overheating. The iMac was cheap enough so I said why not.
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Oh okay, I was just confused because of the parts you listed. Right on! Enjoy it and hope you get the most out of it as possible!
 
Almost entirely work for my design/marketing business: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Office. Some financial/billing software. Some Parallels. Very little of anything else.

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro, iPad 2, and XBox for leisure activities.
 
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