What would you choose?

[vargihate]

If you had to choose between the i5 iMac with 8GB’s of Ram or the i7 iMac with 4GB’s of Ram what would you choose and why?

 

[Andy348]

i7, because of the following:

-RAM is easily upgradeable, and DDR3 RAM will come down in price soon. You cannot say the same thing about a processor.
-The computing world is moving more and more into Quad Cores. Soon the Arrandale CPUs will be coming for the MBP (soon is a relative term, next year some time) and then I'm sure we'll just be seeing average computers with Quad Cores. I wouldn't buy a C2D right now unless I had to.
-I've always gone by the philosophy "buy as much power as you can afford". If you're even debating the i7, it means that you have the cash to buy it. I'd go for the more powerful one.

GL

 

[RKO]

i7, because of the following:

-RAM is easily upgradeable, and DDR3 RAM will come down in price soon. You cannot say the same thing about a processor.
-The computing world is moving more and more into Quad Cores. Soon the Arrandale CPUs will be coming for the MBP (soon is a relative term, next year some time) and then I'm sure we'll just be seeing average computers with Quad Cores. I wouldn't buy a C2D right now unless I had to.
-I've always gone by the philosophy "buy as much power as you can afford". If you're even debating the i7, it means that you have the cash to buy it. I'd go for the more powerful one.

GL

Yes i agree also as it is easy to upgrade RAM later but not so with the processor. If you can afford the faster i7 then go for it.

 

[Scippy]

I'd go with the i7.
You can easily update the ram in the future.
Trying to update the processor.... Not so easy.

 

[vargihate]

That’s great, I thought it would be an issue to debate but you made it too easy for me to decide. Thanks people, god bless.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I'd go with the i7.
You can easily update the ram in the future.
Trying to update the processor.... Not so easy.

Agreed, if you can afford it go with the i7.

 

[MacKiddyWiddy]

i7 because ram is cheaper to upgrade and easier