help with purchase

[thirteenth]

I'm looking to buy a new imac 27" 5k, I haven't had a computer in a few years just been using my ipad and its finally time to buy a computer again. I'm going to do some pretty basic task like build a site on go daddy, do some light photo editing with photo shop or lightroom and simple movie edits with imovie so my question is will i notice a difference with the basic 1tg version vs the $400 more 2tb fusion drive.
Thanks for any help.

 

[Dragoro]

You might with the video editing since the 2tb fusion drive has a larger ssd than the 1tb fusion drive.

 

[MadDane]

I agree with Dragoro, that you most likely will see an improvement with the 2TB FusionDrive. However, since you mention it is only light photo- and video editing, I would suggest that you got the cheaper of the two and then instead got an external SSD to do photo- and video editing from. That will be an overall cheaper way to go about it.

However, if it where me I would spend $200 on the base model on the 256GB SSD and then supplement with a 1/2TB external spinning drive for all of your media files.

 

[Dragoro]

I agree with Dragoro, that you most likely will see an improvement with the 2TB FusionDrive. However, since you mention it is only light photo- and video editing, I would suggest that you got the cheaper of the two and then instead got an external SSD to do photo- and video editing from. That will be an overall cheaper way to go about it.

However, if it where me I would spend $200 on the base model on the 256GB SSD and then supplement with a 1/2TB external spinning drive for all of your media files.

Thats exactly what I did, MadDane. Well that and 32 gigs of ram.

 

[maflynn]

I'd definitely go with the 2TB Fusion drive and depending on the final cost of the iMac, you may want to upgrade to higher end model. That is, I was looking at the M390 flavor but adding the 2TB Fusion drive pushed the cost closer to the M395 which comes with a 2TB Fusion drive.