New iMac

[Way69]

Recently bought a new 21.5" iMac (2.9ghz, 8gb ram) for use at home.

I have regretted not getting the 27", simply because bigger is better and also the fusion drive because every review slates the 5200rpm drive...

Must say, I cant really complain about performance though.

This morning I was encoding some series into iTunes friendly format, had 7 excel documents open, 4 word documents, mail, itunes, vlc player, safari (2 tabs), chrome (5 tabs), one rdp session open and the iMac never lagged or slowed down once.

Apart from the bigger screen real estate of the 27", I cant really see why anyone would splurge on the custom build unless they are doing some serious video editing or like to brag about specs.

I guess in retrospect, I'm quite happy with my purchase. It would make my day if apple released a 21.5" display though as I can seem myself enjoying a dual screen setup.

I was looking into buying a macbook air as well for work but when I suggested it to my Microsoft affiliate company, they promptly gave me a higher spec windows machine and said NO ;-)

 

[Rocket-Boy]

It all depends on what you want to do on it. It wouldnt exactly be a gaming machine.
But the 27" one has an amazing display, that thing is just awesome.

 

[Way69]

Agreed, not much of a gamer myself. Tend to play a game for 20 minutes and then lose interest.

 

[rrh]

It all depends on what you want to do on it. It wouldnt exactly be a gaming machine.
But the 27" one has an amazing display, that thing is just awesome.

+10

 

[stricken]

I got 2 27" samsungs flanking my iMac if you want an idea of how to solve real estate issue.

 

[Ry4n]

I'd much rather have my Dell U3011 with 2 other smaller Dells as wings swiviled 90 degrees. Better Res and better response time - without the gloss affect.
http://computer-monitors.findthebes...-Thunderbolt-Display-vs-Dell-UltraSharp-U3011

 

[Way69]

I'd much rather have my Dell U3011 with 2 other smaller Dells as wings swiviled 90 degrees. Better Res and better response time - without the gloss affect.
http://computer-monitors.findthebes...-Thunderbolt-Display-vs-Dell-UltraSharp-U3011

The different designs would drive me insane, I'd also most likely compare screen quality and notice a difference. Waiting until next month, Apple will most likely release a new 27" thunderbolt display.