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20" iMac.....wait, right?!?!

Well, Paris is Sept 12...4 days before the end of the iPod promotion. That seems like a good date to wait for, especially since the computer is NOT URGENTLY NEEDED right now.

I am not soo much worried about the CPU being updated, but a lot of times a video card upgrade is accompanied with a CPU upgrade, or maybe the ability for more ram, etc. I am more concerned with that than a CPU upgrade. The combination of 2 minor upgrades (CPU and GPU) can help me out with my Photoshop and FCE projects, right?
 
Sean7512 said:
Well, Paris is Sept 12...4 days before the end of the iPod promotion. That seems like a good date to wait for, especially since the computer is NOT URGENTLY NEEDED right now.

I am not soo much worried about the CPU being updated, but a lot of times a video card upgrade is accompanied with a CPU upgrade, or maybe the ability for more ram, etc. I am more concerned with that than a CPU upgrade. The combination of 2 minor upgrades (CPU and GPU) can help me out with my Photoshop and FCE projects, right?
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A GPU upgrade wouldn't affect Photoshop or FCE at all. Those rely exclusively on the CPU as far as I know. But I wouldn't expect an upgraded GPU in the next iMac revision anyway. Apple is always very chintzy with their GPUs and they will try to get away with the worst one they can in any given computer. The X1600 will get replaced once its performance becomes "poor" in the latest 3D games - at the moment it's still "okay."
 
Well, if games are your big thing, I'd wait. I have the high-end iMac and the thing's fantastic, but the x1600 is definitely nearing the end of its run. It was only "warm" when the iMac came out, thanks to the already-mentioned iStinginess with video cards. Of course, I also have an external monitor, so I basically have the 128MB card.

If you aren't too worried about the latest and greatest, then buy it! I haven't regretted this purchase for one instant. I'll upgrade it in a few years when Core 2 Duos are cheap and 2GB sticks are about $20 apiece, but I think it'll keep me happy for a long time. The sheer quality and beauty of it is incredible. The only time I've ever heard the fans come on was when I did a firmware upgrade (and the fans automatically come on full blast then).

Just.... it's awesome. You couldn't find a thing about it that I'm not madly in love with.

I do wish I had gotten the 500GB hard drive, but I'm fixing that now with generous helpings of USB hubs and external HD enclosures :)
 
Sean7512 said:
While I do not have an external Firewire HDD, I do have an 80GB USB HDD. Would that be enough space to use as a scratch disk?

So iDVD will burn my FCE movies, thats good! Also, how much more advanced is FCE to iMovie? I'm assuming that it is still fairly easy to use, in high school we were taught Adobe Premier on OS 9 machines, and I found that to be quite easy. Would FCE still be relatively easy?
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Premiere is a lot different than Final Cut. I used to like Final Cut a lot better, but we use Premiere a lot more at work and I have become way more accustomed to it. Honestly, I wish Adobe hadn't dropped mac support from Premiere. I was hoping that they'd bring it back with a Universal Binary version, but it doesn't look like they are.

In some ways they are similar, but Final Cut is a little more complicated. Really, I could use either one though Final Cut has a few things that annoy me. For instance, you can zoom on the timeline in Premiere using +/-....I think I once found a shortcut to do that in Final Cut, without using that annoying slider, but I forgot it (it must not have been very 'useable'). Also, Final Cut has problems working with images. For some reason setting the duration of an image in Final Cut never works as one would expect.

Just give it a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with it. They're similar enough that you can figure out one from the other. As for iMovie....I've never liked the way it looked and never bothered to use it. It just has a consumer feel to me, and that's not how I roll :D (then again I use FCP HD, not FCE)
 
Sean7512 said:
Well, Paris is Sept 12...4 days before the end of the iPod promotion. That seems like a good date to wait for, especially since the computer is NOT URGENTLY NEEDED right now.
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Agreed. Paris could be very big and all focused around Core 2 duo.
 
Super Macho Man said:
Assuming the iMac gets Merom... but if it gets Conroe then it's a slightly different story.
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I reckon it possibly will, Apple has always given the iMac quite a bit of power and if it had Conroe it still won't compete with a full quad line Mac Pro with 8 ram slots and 4 hardive bays.

At least I'm hoping :)
 
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