Thinking of getting an iMac

[triston220]

Okay, so I'm thinking of getting the 27" 3.1GHz model. Is the extra gigabyte of graphics worth it for £75?

[Recursion]

You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from 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!]

You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from 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]

You'd be mad to buy 1GB for £75... buy the iMac then get your RAM from 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]

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]

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]

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

[Recursion]

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

Hyperthreading is only useful in things like film production/encoding anyway... I doubt you'd notice a difference with it.

[HotelUser]

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.