Is there any particular (speed) benefit for buying the iMac with the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS video card over buying the standard iMac 24" 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
Bearing in mind I’m working on Web and print work rather than 3D stuff - and no 3D games - just work
Well, in the past I would have said that if your not doing 3D it would not matter…however…
Apple has stated that the next version of OSX will be primarily about speed and the way they intend on speeding up graphics issues is by passing off that to the graphics card processor. So…more graphics processing power = longer usable lifespan of iMac.
Hi roger I have just bought (5 days ago) a new 24" 2.8 Imac with the big 320gig plus hard drive
direct from apple refurb department (Though its in Absolutely perfect condition)
it cost 824.00 +vat and with no extra delivery which is cheaper than people are selling them second hand on ebay. I ordered it at 3 in the afternoon and it arrived about 11 the next day.
I too added crucial ram and whacked it up to the maximum for around £50 region.
needless to say its a bit nippy compared to my beige G3 tower which has now been pushed aside…
so I can recommend the apple refurb. http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore?family=Certified
Thanks for the tip Max, I have one of the same on it way to us today, to replace my well used, last of line, 20" G5 iMac. I too can finally step into the Intel world (and I hope any nasty surprises have been ironed out by earlier, more braver adventurers than me)
Nearly bought from CanCom being £32 cheaper then the apple store, but this has saved £121 even on their price
On 24 Sep 2008, at 07:31, max wrote:
Hi roger I have just bought (5 days ago) a new 24" 2.8 Imac with the big 320gig plus hard drive
direct from apple refurb department (Though its in Absolutely perfect condition)
it cost 824.00 +vat and with no extra delivery which is cheaper than people are selling them second hand on ebay. I ordered it at 3 in the afternoon and it arrived about 11 the next day.
I too added crucial ram and whacked it up to the maximum for around £50 region.
needless to say its a bit nippy compared to my beige G3 tower which has now been pushed aside…
so I can recommend the apple refurb.
Well I also did it today after faffing around (how do you spell faffing)? for some months … but Max’s suggestion prompted me to look at the apple refurb list and there was a nice high spec imac at £200 off list, had a chat with a chap on the Apple site who explained refurb. really meant getting a shirt that had been unwrapped but not really worn … let’s hope he’s right, I also ('cause these days I’ll try and get any money off I can) went through Quidco, maybe it will work, and bought it on an Amex card so might get some airmiles, jeez isn’t life complicated these days ? Best Roger
My other half has Parallels on the other MacBook Pro here, and runs
Windows XP almost all the time. I don’t think there’s any major
penalty associated with the virtual machine over Bootcamp, just less
hassle and no need to reboot to use the Mac.
Though the cheap laptop is a viable option, I guess.
I would personally install a windows system with bootcamp and then add Parallels, but rather than install another operating system I would just point it at the bootcamp volume. (its a setting in the control panel)
This way if you need the maximum speed that running a pc in non a emulated format woud give then you can relaunch the the machine as a full blown PC, but if you just require it to view websites you have made in IE then you can launch Parallels.
Who’s a lucky boy then, i hope you didn’t make yourself look like an idiot like I did on the Apple discussions forum when I asked what the little ‘velvet’ envelope was for (I thought, as it was a refurb there might be something missing) ! - it seems it’s a little cloth for cleaning the screen dooohh !
You could use it to shield your eyes from the bright screen; wow - it’s bright.
On 27 Sep 2008, at 11:17 am, Roger Burton wrote:
Who’s a lucky boy then, i hope you didn’t make yourself look like an idiot like I did on the Apple discussions forum when I asked what the little ‘velvet’ envelope was for (I thought, as it was a refurb there might be something missing) ! - it seems it’s a little cloth for cleaning the screen dooohh !
