Help with shopping ?

[maxmacmaxmac]

Hello people, is it better to buy

Imac mid 2011 27inch
Intel core i5 3.1 mhz
8gb ram 1333 mhz
1tb hdd
Amd radeon hd 6970m

or

Imac mid 2011 27inch
Intel core i7 3.4 mhz
8gb ram 1067 mhz
1tb hdd
Amd radeon hd 6970m

Both cost 300$ but on first i have 30 days gurantee

I would use it mostly for figma, photoshop, premier pro, after effects, ... I might as well play a game but primarily for business. Thanks in advance!

 

[mmkerc]

Main difference is the chip, and graphic suck down processing time. I do not know the actual user speed difference between the two chips, though I doubt it is significant. Given the choice I would go for the slightly fast ram over the different chip. Not likely to see a big difference either way.

 

[phrehdd]

The real difference will be found in applications that use multi-core. Candidly, the i7 will be slightly faster where compute happens. I don't recall the state of RAM but if you opt for the i5, at least increase the RAM to 16 and being the type of apps you mention, 32 would be better.

 

[ian87w]

I would be wary buying an old PC with a spinning drive in it. I would go to ifixtit and see if you're comfortable opening the thing to replace the drive with an SSD, or prepare to use an external SSD for your main drive.

Whatever the computer spec, the hard drive will be the bottleneck.

 

[hallux]

I would be wary buying any Mac of that vintage. Those are now 3 versions of macOS behind and no longer get security patching. Unless you plan on "hacking" a newer macOS onto it...