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Just start saving. By the time enough are ready to buy anything, new iMacs will be out and they will probably be 6 cores.
If you want more than 4 cores but know that most of your software won’t take advantage of 10, then wait for 6 at the lower price point.
If you want more than 4 cores but know that most of your software won’t take advantage of 10, then wait for 6 at the lower price point.
You say what you're doing - you don't say why. If the work you're doing in illustrator, CC et al is paid, then you can do some form of cost benefit analysis and determine how quickly the machine will pay for itself in increased throughput. If this stuff is more hobbyist (i.e it can still be important, but you're not being paid for it), then the question is harder. If you're willing to save for the iMac Pro, then start saving, that way if the need for any kind of iMac becomes urgent, you have got something put aside to help with the cost and you can maybe buy something immediately.
a lot thing is missing here..
Are you doing outside job or student job ?
IF yes.. Are the client require high amount of detailing and great budget. Push the customer instead.
If no, stick to normal laptop as you used now .
Why you need raw while you edit in jpeg?
Yes it may low quality but it should reduce overhead rendering in bridge ..Suppose
Some people make get a loan for it.. but as student how should so ?
Why employee discount while you can get student discount?
Are you doing outside job or student job ?
IF yes.. Are the client require high amount of detailing and great budget. Push the customer instead.
If no, stick to normal laptop as you used now .
Why you need raw while you edit in jpeg?
Yes it may low quality but it should reduce overhead rendering in bridge ..Suppose
Some people make get a loan for it.. but as student how should so ?
Why employee discount while you can get student discount?
I doubt about CPU importance in your situation:
-you'll get a really big & nice wide-gamut retina screen.
-you'll get new Thunderbolt3 and more ports.
-you could get a Mac with insanely fast internal ssd.
-you´ll get new gen Intel CPU, supporting low level graphic decoding & faster RAM accessing.
This is true about both iMac & iMac Pro.
iMac Pro would give you an even-faster ssd, more cpu cores, more ports & faster-newer gpu...
If you see things this way, you can think (as I do) that whatever you buy, it will be a real jump from your actual system.
I would be tempted to get the Pro if I had the money... BUT not too fast!: you have to consider added cost when upgrading memory, and all the possible exigences a pro machine could demand in future situations. Like getting a luxury car... you should be able to maintain it & keep it in perfect fit.
Perhaps an iMac is easier at that. A person who makes money with a computer can afford expensive upgrades or repairs.
IMHO
I'd say that the i7 27" is about right if it is in your price range - if money is tight go for the i5 and spend the extra on SSD. Avoid the Fusion drive and go for enough SSD to hold the system and your "work in progress" - you'll need external storage for backup and archiving anyway. Remember that fast SSD will also help if you run out of RAM and MacOS/Photoshop start relying on temporary files or swap space.
Get the 8GB RAM and add two 16GB sticks from Crucial to give you 40GB.
I'd only consider the iMac Pro (but maybe the 8 core) for your sort of work if I had either a stack of cash or a business plan. I'm sure it would be great, though.
You are a student any Imac will be just fine for you, don’t sweat it. Buy what you can afford close to when you start your course and make sure it has a decent SSD size (512 would be good) and get some external storage and a backup disk.
upgrade RAM yourself it’s very easy on the 27 inch Imac there is a flap to access it, you will probably be ok with 8gb, 16gb will be more than you need but I would get the 16gb kit of 2x8gb and add it to the 8gb installed for 24gb and never think about it again.
upgrade RAM yourself it’s very easy on the 27 inch Imac there is a flap to access it, you will probably be ok with 8gb, 16gb will be more than you need but I would get the 16gb kit of 2x8gb and add it to the 8gb installed for 24gb and never think about it again.
For photoshop benchmarks, poke around
https://macperformanceguide.com and http://barefeats.com
note that you're unlikely to get a directly comparable set of results since Adobe and Apple have updated their software...
Also the macbook pro runs Ivy Bridge. Intel has updated quicksync to support more contemporary video formats...
The one thing that you will lose is CUDA support-- as more recent macs use AMD. I don't know if that's important to your workflow. Probably not since the 650M doesn't have a lot of VRAM.
https://macperformanceguide.com and http://barefeats.com
note that you're unlikely to get a directly comparable set of results since Adobe and Apple have updated their software...
Also the macbook pro runs Ivy Bridge. Intel has updated quicksync to support more contemporary video formats...
The one thing that you will lose is CUDA support-- as more recent macs use AMD. I don't know if that's important to your workflow. Probably not since the 650M doesn't have a lot of VRAM.
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Okay. that the answer i want and everybody want to knew also.. Seem i see the problem now.
Like i do in web app. All thumbnail are resizable.. Since i may think those raw file is big, so rerender just for viewing take edges. I don't know it was bug for bridge or not, they should render just thumbnail jpeg for speed preview and on editing then open the raw file.
My Advise, don't push yourself to debt just to get imac pro. Even i used 8 GB RAM 2017 IMAC. Calculate base on pricing and cost as other mention above.
Great Image doesn't come from pixel but the moment ..
I have the Mac Pro, and my recommendation would be to buy the 27" iMac. Almost nothing in the Adobe CC suite will use the full power of the machine, and will in fact run slower due to Adobe's mostly single-threaded programming, and the higher base clock of the iMac. The only possible use case you would have for the pro would be needing more than 64GB of RAM, but I doubt that you even need 32GB. My late 2015 iMac had 24GB, and I never had a problem with it running out while using graphic design apps.
The iMac Pro isn't a faster iMac for 98% of apps, it's a very specialized machine for very specific kinds of workloads. I bought the Pro to work in computationally intensive 3D apps. One of which can easily eat 100GB of RAM in a single run. Unless you're working for EA on Star Wars: Battlefront creating art assets from 3D object scans, there's no way that you'll need that much power.
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I tried the Hackintosh route, and wasted a lot of time and money on it that could have been better spent working. Only to end up with a computer that I couldn't trust to work properly from one day to the next. Just buy a real Mac and concentrate on your studies/work instead.
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