Let’s take a look at these two machines aspect by aspect for anybody looking to upgrade or change.
İnitial of all, if you’re looking to buy one of these shiny new 27¨ Apple Cinema Displays to go with a new iMac, wait to make your buy as these won’t be readily available until September. In my opinion, Dell’s monitor offerings are priced pretty competitively to Apple’s, but you lose out on that Apple touch for example an aluminum enclosure and built-in MagSafe adapter. I have a 30¨ Dell LCD hooked up to my 27¨ iMac and it performs correctly with Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter.
The 27¨ & 21¨ iMac Aspect by Aspect
For nearly every user reading TheAppleBlog, Apple’s new iMac is the perfect machine both in performance and price. It will make your wallet happy when compared to Mac Pro and is a versatile machine with a smaller footprint and speeds that most users have never experienced. It also uses far less energy than the Mac Pro, which is best for your electric bill. Here’s my recommendation for a top of the line Core i7 iMac:
27¨ Monitor
2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
8GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x2GB
2TB Serial ATA Drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 SDRAM
Magic Mouse
Final Price: $2,549
For this, you’re getting eight total cores because the quad-core i7 processor has hyperthreading and the 8GB of RAM is far from the max of 16GB that the new iMac can handle while still being plenty of for most users. Remember, the MacBook Pro can take a max of 8GB of RAM. I’d recommend 16GB to any aspiring filmmaker, CGI artist or science geek doing complex computations that require a ton of RAM. Besides, it is possible to add more RAM a few years from now as the price drops and your needs grow.
The lowest-end iMac I’d recommend would be the following:
21.5¨ Monitor
3.60GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x2GB
1TB Serial ATA Drive
ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB GDDR3 SDRAM
8x double-layer SuperDrive
Magic Mouse
Final Price: $1,699
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