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Why upgrade to 4.0GHz and M295X?
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Back to the original spirit of this thread: my philosophy on buying computers is to buy the best that I can afford, then use it for the longest usable time. For example, my current computer is a 2009 MBP that was maxxed spec for its time. Obviously, its starting to get unusable for some of my activities, which is why I'm upgrading, but still, its lasted over 5 years. Also, I'll give it to my wife who just needs a simple web browser, hence it is likely to be able to last a total of 7+ years. Another example: my mom is still using a white 2006 iMac. So longevity is my answer for upgrading everything except RAM (which I can upgrade later). Over the long-haul, an extra few hundred dollars is not that much for me.
My idea for my 5k iMac is similar. I don't play games or care about having the fastest machine all the time. I just want to buy something now and then forget about updating for the next 5 or 6 years.
in Canada it's 14 days and I'm assuming it's the same in the US.
Same here. I went with the 3TB fusion even though most kept telling me go ssd. I feel I get the best of both worlds with the storage I need and a little ssd.
By the time I need to get a new machine, hopefully ssd storage will be cheaper. And with AppleCare I'm good to go for the next three years anyway.
I'm happy with my final decision although I'll admit I did struggle with it.
Hey, my Retina iMac is shipping from China. WTF!? My current iMac was also a CTO order and shipped from Calif. Whatever happened to "Assembled in the U.S."???
As for the GPU, I went with the M290x. I have the GTX 775M and 2GB GDDR5 VRAM, but it's almost never in use much. Same goes for my i5. Although there is the coolness factor of getting the i7-4790K. I wonder if you can truly overlock it, because it is an unlocked CPU! Probably not under OS X, though.
One thing about the two GPUs: The M290x has a TDP of 100W and the M295x has a whopping 250W TDP.
As for the GPU, I went with the M290x. I have the GTX 775M and 2GB GDDR5 VRAM, but it's almost never in use much. Same goes for my i5. Although there is the coolness factor of getting the i7-4790K. I wonder if you can truly overlock it, because it is an unlocked CPU! Probably not under OS X, though.
One thing about the two GPUs: The M290x has a TDP of 100W and the M295x has a whopping 250W TDP.
Caveat: Haven't ordered yet, waiting for my end-of-year bonus.
That said, it's two-fold for me:
CPU: I use virtual machines fairly often. HyperThreading really helps with virtual machines - because it enables the CPU to pawn off work between many threads more efficiently. I can "dedicate" 2 CPUs to each of 2 virtual machines, and only take a slight performance hit in the host OS X.
GPU: This display is a monster, with an insane number of pixels. I want to future-proof as much as possible by having the fastest GPU and most video RAM I can get.
I'm just a 'standard home user' for the most part. I do photo and video editing, but only in iPhoto and iMovie. I play games, but not "hardcore" - the newest game I play is Portal 2. (My current gaming machine is a quad-core i5 PC with a Radeon 5770 that I play on a 1080 TV (it doubles as my HTPC.) Nearly all the games I play are available on OS X, so being able to play them on my primary PC would be good.)
That said, it's two-fold for me:
CPU: I use virtual machines fairly often. HyperThreading really helps with virtual machines - because it enables the CPU to pawn off work between many threads more efficiently. I can "dedicate" 2 CPUs to each of 2 virtual machines, and only take a slight performance hit in the host OS X.
GPU: This display is a monster, with an insane number of pixels. I want to future-proof as much as possible by having the fastest GPU and most video RAM I can get.
I'm just a 'standard home user' for the most part. I do photo and video editing, but only in iPhoto and iMovie. I play games, but not "hardcore" - the newest game I play is Portal 2. (My current gaming machine is a quad-core i5 PC with a Radeon 5770 that I play on a 1080 TV (it doubles as my HTPC.) Nearly all the games I play are available on OS X, so being able to play them on my primary PC would be good.)