What to buy?

[chrischinho]

Hello guys,

I'm thinking about replacing my old macbook pro (2011) with the new imac 27inch 2017.
Since my budget is limited my idea is, that I buy the cheapest model and upgrade the Ram afterwards by myself.

My main use for the iMac would be:
- Some unprofessional video and picture cutting and editing (not yet but maybe 4k at some point)
- Games like WOW, heroes of the storm, CS go
- video and Picture streaming/ presentation

I am not planning to Play high end games on high Resolution, but i would not mind if the imac is not completely outdated for games to come during the next years (I am aware that this is not a gaming pc).

What are your opinions?
Should I invest more?
Can i do what im planning to do without having a bad time?

As you can see: I am not an expert, so i would appreciate your input 🙂

 

[NMSUballa]

I think you would be happy with that purchase.

 

[maflynn]

The only thing I'd recommend is dump the 1TB Fusion drive from the standard configuration and opt for a SSD. The 1 TB Fusion drive is slow, compared to the other offerings. Spending all that money, you don't want your machine to feel slow.

 

[chrischinho]

Thanks for the replies!

I was thinking the same @maflynn, but i thought it might be not worth 360Euros (512gb SSD)

how big is the difference and when would i notice the main differences between the 1tb Fusion and the SSD

 

[maflynn]

how big is the difference and when would i notice the main differences between the 1tb Fusion and the SSD

I think the speed difference would be immediately apparent, opening up an app for the first time on a Fusion drive may mean its on the slow spinning drive and not store on the 23GB SSD portion of the Fusion drive.

Push comes to shove you can always get a fast external SSD and run your system off that. I do that for different reasons - I have windows as the default OS on the SSD portion of the internal drive and I have a 400GB external SSD for OS X.

 

[chrischinho]

I think the speed difference would be immediately apparent, opening up an app for the first time on a Fusion drive may mean its on the slow spinning drive and not store on the 23GB SSD portion of the Fusion drive.

Push comes to shove you can always get a fast external SSD and run your system off that. I do that for different reasons - I have windows as the default OS on the SSD portion of the internal drive and I have a 400GB external SSD for OS X.

Okay i see, thats good to know! Maybe i should invest that bit more then

and with the rest of the configuration I should be fine for a few years?