I like my iMac---am I the only one

[aliensporebomb]

Thinking....

I love my new i7 27" wonderscreen.

Now, a poster earlier said I could spend less overall money and build a machine with similar processing capabilities but that's part of what I do for my day gig.

To get a monitor with the clarity, size, and color saturation of the 27" screen in this computer I'd have to spend pretty decently.

If I wanted to beat the corei7 2.8 ghz in the iMac I'd have to go spend lots of dollars on the corei7 extreme that costs $999 at the local Microcenter.

I'd have to get some type of tower case and appropriate motherboard and then make sure that it can he "hackintoshed".
The motherboard would have to run with both FW800 AND USB3 (I know the imac only does usb2 but that's fair since I have no usb3 hardware yet).
It would have to be able to hold at least 16 gigs of ram DDR3 or better.

I'd have to get some decent drives and then look for a decent video card that wasn't so expensive that it was the majority of the system but wasn't so cheap it was junk.

I seriously considered this. I might still do it as a "hobby project" down the road.

But then I encountered the i7 27" in a local store.

But there were a few things that sold me on the i7 27":
-geekbench score approaching 10,000.
-none of my self-built pcs come anywhere close to that.
-logic pro 81 track stereo session with high def video - machine isn't even breathing hard.
-that SCREEN!

Yeah. I might regret it later since I am a PowerMac G5 owner and I enjoyed the tower that I could pop multiple drives in as well as upgrade the video card (which I did) and max out the ram.

But, I can expand this suitably to 16 gigs, I can deal with the internal drive and get bigger external ones.

Thinking. Yeah I like it.

 

[TennisandMusic]

If none of your self built PC's come close to an i7 iMac you're doing it really wrong. It's so easy to build an i5 or an i7 and overclock it to 4ghz. It would trounce the iMac. High quality parts are not expensive, and are better than anything in an iMac (or a mac pro for that matter). It is very easy to do all of this.

Of course I agree on the iMac's looks, it's probably the nicest looking computer ever made. And the screen, if it was of decent quality, would look great as well. But it's just got too many issues overall. Had two of them. Both were bad. Maybe next rev? I still kinda want one. Just had to point out the fallacies in thinking it's better than a standard PC version. It's really not.

 

[aliensporebomb]

If none of your self built PC's come close to an i7 iMac you're doing it really wrong. It's so easy to build an i5 or an i7 and overclock it to 4ghz. It would trounce the iMac. High quality parts are not expensive, and are better than anything in an iMac (or a mac pro for that matter). It is very easy to do all of this.

Of course I agree on the iMac's looks, it's probably the nicest looking computer ever made. And the screen, if it was of decent quality, would look great as well. But it's just got too many issues overall. Had two of them. Both were bad. Maybe next rev? I still kinda want one. Just had to point out the fallacies in thinking it's better than a standard PC version. It's really not.

It's not that I was doing it wrong: it's that they are OLD!

I can overclock this - it's shown on geekbench that people are overclocking these systems to 4.12 ghz (not that I need to do that).

I'll reserve judgement on the issues. My concern is that that beautiful housing hides a rats nest of thermal problems but we'll see.

I've actually got a cooling fan pointing to the back of the case pointing slightly upwards and it dropped the internal temps around 20 degrees according to temperature monitor.

But I need to really tromp on it under load and unfortunately Seti at Home's servers aren't up right now or I'd be crunching some numbers at 100%.

 

[DoFoT9]

I've actually got a cooling fan pointing to the back of the case pointing slightly upwards and it dropped the internal temps around 20 degrees according to temperature monitor.

bit paranoid there? this is under windows?

ive found the cooling of my iMac to be wonderful. 65c under load once the fans kick in (by themselves).