iMac Standard

[emmab2006]

Hiya All , im knew here so first of all i'll intro my self , im Emma , im 22 Years old i live in stoke on trent , and im not a very well person ,

Right now my question is , im buying the Standard iMac £799 Model in 3 Weeks Time , i cant buy the model higher than that because of financial Restrictions , I Was Basicaly wondering how the 2400XT Performs in WOW , And Flight Simulator 9 (2004) oviously using bootcamp .... im a hardcore flightsimmer and i love Macs , ( own a mac mini and a imac g4 ) ... i really love the new imac but wanted to know how it all performed , if anyone could help me i would be GREATLY Appreciative .. Thanks Very Much

Emma x

 

[Whistleway]

I have the base 20-inch model. I run windows using VMWare Fusion and it works great for me.

I am not sure about the games. If anything, I have just 1GB ram and it just works. Wait for a few weeks, there might a revision coming up!

 

[beige matchbox]

You wont have any trouble at all with WoW.

FS9 however will depend on what scenery you use, if you have lots of VFR scenery you will want a fair bit of ram, complex addon airports could also cause dropped frames, some of the Heathrow sceneries are bonkers


Best bet would be to save some extra pennies (about £20 i reckon) and get at least 2Gb in asap to get things playing nicely, and of course, the extra ram will give OSX a very nice boost too

 

[emmab2006]

Yea , i totaly agree i would buy 4GIG for it , the 1GIG is ludacris ..

 

[RollTide]

I have 1.25 gigs in an older iMac and IL-2 Sturmovik ran beautifully and also the other flight sim games, but like others have said it does depend greatly on airports. But 2004 may be better.

 

[FuriousD]

Hi Emma,

Why dont you keep an eye on the refurb section for the iMac. I have got mine in the last week. 20" 2.4ghz for £780, still come with the years warranty!

Good luck

D

 

[Mikey-]

I have a the 20inch model and it is great. I also use Flight Simulator '04 and it is great with the size of the screen size of the iMac