iMac 27 question

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Morning all,
I'm about a week away from pushing the button on a shiny new iMac 27,

Has anyone here gone for the upgrade to the 2.93 i7? (prob 8gb ram)
My usage will be- in OSX, PS4, LR3, office, net etc
In bootcamp, XP sp3, PS4, Express digital darkroom, ncomputing virtualisation, maybe a bit of COD Black ops

Hoping it will fly?
 
I have the previous i7 with 6GB which flies well with PS, LR3 office and a host of other programmes incl plugins from NIK & OnOne.

I dont use Bootcamp but VMWare instead with Win7 and this also works well

So with the newer faster chip should fly even better.
 
Heros use the i7. Buy it with the least ram possible then upgrade with crucial/similar as its substantially cheaper.

After Christmas ill be butchering it to take a SSD drive and changing the 1TB drive to something bigger.
 
Well i was planning to wait, but southampton had an i7 in stock, so its now home.

Just installed xp on it, just looks wrong! Will have. Real play sunday/ monday
 
I bought one 3 months ago - i27 2.93, with 12gb ram; SSD and 2tb HD.

I am a heavy CS5 user plus Lightroom etc etc - it just ploughs though things! Great bit of kit. No draw back at all so far. The SSD option seems worth it - its a 250gb one - only run applications from that - all storage on the 2tb.

Know some folk dont like the glossy screen - Personally I think its fine.

Would I buy another? Yes without doubt.

Rog
 
Un-usual for them to have i7 in stock. I really would suggest either Parallels or WM Ware for Windows so much easier to switch than Boot Camp
 
Was in Southampton about this time last year. Just popped into the Apple store for a quick look see. Wasn't planning on buying anything, just had a few hours to kill. Now have a shiny i5 27" One of the best decisions I ever made.

ENJOY
 
Actual apple stores keep some stock of the more popular upgraded models apparently.
@peter, I would use one of the two for windoze, but one of the software items I need to run is an virtualsation software, you cant run it inside a virtual machine! (or in a 64 bit OS so some of my RAM is wasted)

If and when Ncomputing come up to date i'll be a happy man
 
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