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triston220
09-05-2011, 04:42 PM
Okay, so I'm thinking of getting the 27" 3.1GHz model. Is the extra gigabyte of graphics worth it for £75?
Recursion
09-05-2011, 05:06 PM
You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from www.crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com) for under half the cost of that RAM.

Or just don't buy the iMac, dad got a 27" iMac and ended up installing W7 on it PMSL.
Jack!
09-05-2011, 05:45 PM
You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from www.crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com) for under half the cost of that RAM.

Or just don't buy the iMac, dad got a 27" iMac and ended up installing W7 on it PMSL.

He said 1GB graphics
triston220
09-05-2011, 05:58 PM
You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from www.crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com) for under half the cost of that RAM.

Or just don't buy the iMac, dad got a 27" iMac and ended up installing W7 on it PMSL.

I mean the graphics memory. My plan is to keep the 4GB standard RAM and then buy some more from crucial.
Recursion
09-05-2011, 06:12 PM
My *bad*, need to learn2read.

Unless you're doing anything graphically intensive like FCP or something (not like Macs can play games properly anyway unless you boot into Windows...) then there's no point.
triston220
09-05-2011, 09:35 PM
My *bad*, need to learn2read.

Unless you're doing anything graphically intensive like FCP or something (not like Macs can play games properly anyway unless you boot into Windows...) then there's no point.

Right, thanks for your help.
HotelUser
09-05-2011, 11:28 PM
I have 1GB on my graphics on my 27" iMac and I sure can tell you that doesn't matter at all.

Honestly the biggest problem I have is lack of hyperthreading, but somehow I manage to survive with 4 real cores anyway :P
Recursion
10-05-2011, 06:25 AM
I have 1GB on my graphics on my 27" iMac and I sure can tell you that doesn't matter at all.

Honestly the biggest problem I have is lack of hyperthreading, but somehow I manage to survive with 4 real cores anyway :P

Hyperthreading is only useful in things like film production/encoding anyway... I doubt you'd notice a difference with it.
HotelUser
10-05-2011, 11:42 AM
Hyperthreading is only useful in things like film production/encoding anyway... I doubt you'd notice a difference with it.

I bought this thing mostly for the more real estate on the screen anyway. To be honest it's not that much faster than my Core 2 Duo iMac; although keep in mind that one also ran OS X very fast anyways.

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