I am buying a 24" iMac is Extreme worth it?

[mward333]

Cool, even better! While we all use Macs in our personal life how many of us get to use them in our professional life? It's cool that you get to use Macs (especially the Mac Pro) in your professional life. I'm an insurance agent so since I have my own office I chose to use Macs for my business but for the rest of us it's MS Windows forced upon us.

Enjoy your iMac.... also, welcome to Macrumors. Overall, this is a very friendly and helpful community, although it has sort-of bloomed and exploded in the last couple years.

(Sorry to derail the OP's original question with our conversation.)

 

[redraidermacman]

Enjoy your iMac.... also, welcome to Macrumors. Overall, this is a very friendly and helpful community, although it has sort-of bloomed and exploded in the last couple years.

(Sorry to derail the OP's original question with our conversation.)

wow, do you really have that setup, and if you do, do you feel like god sitting there in front of it?.....just wondering

 

[mward333]

wow, do you really have that setup, and if you do, do you feel like god sitting there in front of it?.....just wondering

Hmmmm.... I definitely don't feel like God sitting in front of it. I'm just a hard-working guy, and the Mac Pro helps a lot.

My Mac Pro has been discussed before:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/342246/

An early picture (from when it arrived) is available from an earlier forum; I'll copy the link here for you.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=82863&d=1187612761

 

[WRD]

Exactly. I bought the 24" 2.4GHz model, then a week later I brought it back and got the 24" 2.8GHz model...luckilly, I didn't have to pay a restocking fee.

Hi! New poster here, frequent reader though...
I plan do get an iMac when Leopard is available and haven't decided on the cpu speed yet. Since you have used both speeds, how big was the diffrence for daily usage (assuming otherwise equal system)? Is it always noticable or just when running computational heavy tasks?

I plan to use it mainly for programming(some graphics programming) and the iLife suite. I also plan to play around with Reason and Logic, nothing professional though. What cpu would you guys recommend? I plan to max out the RAM either way, not right away though...

Hard to answer maybe, but thanks in advance!

 

[gormond]

Hi! New poster here, frequent reader though...
I plan do get an iMac when Leopard is available and haven't decided on the cpu speed yet. Since you have used both speeds, how big was the diffrence for daily usage (assuming otherwise equal system)? Is it always noticable or just when running computational heavy tasks?

I plan to use it mainly for programming(some graphics programming) and the iLife suite. I also plan to play around with Reason and Logic, nothing professional though. What cpu would you guys recommend? I plan to max out the RAM either way, not right away though...

Hard to answer maybe, but thanks in advance!

If your not doing processor intensive tasks like photo/audio/video manipulation or games I doubt you would see much difference.

 

[WRD]

If your not doing processor intensive tasks like photo/audio/video manipulation or games I doubt you would see much difference.

Hmmm, yeah we'll see, I think I'll do some intensive tasks but mostly not... I'll decide when Leopard comes and it's time to make the order. Has anyone spent some time with both processor speeds and have some opinions?

 

[HLdan]

Hi! New poster here, frequent reader though...
I plan do get an iMac when Leopard is available and haven't decided on the cpu speed yet. Since you have used both speeds, how big was the diffrence for daily usage (assuming otherwise equal system)? Is it always noticable or just when running computational heavy tasks?

I plan to use it mainly for programming(some graphics programming) and the iLife suite. I also plan to play around with Reason and Logic, nothing professional though. What cpu would you guys recommend? I plan to max out the RAM either way, not right away though...

Hard to answer maybe, but thanks in advance!

The rule of thumb in the computer world is if you have to ask which is better then get the "better". If you are not new to the computer world then you know that they depreciate faster than driving a new car off the lot.

Intel used to blow me away with those crazy Pentium 4 clock speeds on Windows computers, 3.0Ghz 3.4Ghz 3.8Ghz and the Macs were still on the aging G4's. Well those chipsets are a thing of the past and are considered slow for todays applications.

You can't really "future proof" your computer but it's best to get the top of the line if you can afford it. There's no way you can regret it.