I'm going to return mine. I'm holding it til I have finished my software project, probably another 2 days.
I also called and asked Apple rep if I could upgrade my 21.5 3.33ghz CPU and ATI 4670 with 4 GB of Ram to i7 model and they said I could Apple rep told me to pay extra for $320 for getting the i5 model and $500 for i7, which 's the educational price (I'm a graduate student at GA Tech)
I'm a software engineer and my jobs really depend on very powerful computers (running multiple servers, and some required-powerful-computer software applications at the same time). I just realized that my custom C2D iMac 21.5 could be unable to handle my performance needs (it is slow sometimes)
any advice for i5 or i7 owners, (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or System Engineering or whoever whose daily uses depends on powerful computers like me) about which model I should upgrade? or just upgrade another 4GB of RAM into my 21.5 (cost me only $99) would be enough?
Seriously, pay another $320 and you get i5 CPU, extra 5.5 inches more space of the display and better GPU (ATI 4850) !!! What a deal?
one more question, if i get i7 model What do you guys think of how long or how many years this model can serve me in term of performance only (not to consider the hardware issue) before buying another new computer to catch up the future technology? I sometimes like to buy the topmost spec available for that model so I dont need to buy the new computer to upgrade often. My old Acer laptop just died on me few months ago after having served me well about 6 years without any problem (I spilled some coke on them, stupid me!! and the cost of repairing is about $300,. So good bye my old friend)
I bought 21.5 model at the moment because I have a limited space in my room (I'm living in my university's apartment) and i already have my Samsung 46 inches HDTV in my room, which is often used to connect my laptop to display the laptop screen on my HDTV. So I went for 21.5 with the topmost model available
I also got my i7 laptop CPU 820QM, 6GB of Ram, ATI 4670 1 GB from Dell , model SXPS 1645 at the same time as this iMac. It seems that my laptop is lot more powerful than this iMac and sometimes it irritates me when I have to run them together.
Sorry for writing too much. Please give me some advices
Thanks
I also called and asked Apple rep if I could upgrade my 21.5 3.33ghz CPU and ATI 4670 with 4 GB of Ram to i7 model and they said I could Apple rep told me to pay extra for $320 for getting the i5 model and $500 for i7, which 's the educational price (I'm a graduate student at GA Tech)
I'm a software engineer and my jobs really depend on very powerful computers (running multiple servers, and some required-powerful-computer software applications at the same time). I just realized that my custom C2D iMac 21.5 could be unable to handle my performance needs (it is slow sometimes)
any advice for i5 or i7 owners, (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or System Engineering or whoever whose daily uses depends on powerful computers like me) about which model I should upgrade? or just upgrade another 4GB of RAM into my 21.5 (cost me only $99) would be enough?
Seriously, pay another $320 and you get i5 CPU, extra 5.5 inches more space of the display and better GPU (ATI 4850) !!! What a deal?
one more question, if i get i7 model What do you guys think of how long or how many years this model can serve me in term of performance only (not to consider the hardware issue) before buying another new computer to catch up the future technology? I sometimes like to buy the topmost spec available for that model so I dont need to buy the new computer to upgrade often. My old Acer laptop just died on me few months ago after having served me well about 6 years without any problem (I spilled some coke on them, stupid me!! and the cost of repairing is about $300,. So good bye my old friend)
I bought 21.5 model at the moment because I have a limited space in my room (I'm living in my university's apartment) and i already have my Samsung 46 inches HDTV in my room, which is often used to connect my laptop to display the laptop screen on my HDTV. So I went for 21.5 with the topmost model available
I also got my i7 laptop CPU 820QM, 6GB of Ram, ATI 4670 1 GB from Dell , model SXPS 1645 at the same time as this iMac. It seems that my laptop is lot more powerful than this iMac and sometimes it irritates me when I have to run them together.
Sorry for writing too much. Please give me some advices
Thanks