Nice, congrats!
My i7 w/ 8GB will hopefully be delivered to me tomorrow... if still feels like forever!
yeah, tell me about it!! lol... did you go for the ssd option too?
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yeah, tell me about it!! lol... did you go for the ssd option too?
My i7 arrived yesterday. I fired it and found no issues at all!
So I installed the extra 4GB RAM and put the boxes in the loft.
No yellow tint, no brightness whine. It gets warm when running WoW with all the settings maxed.
The hard drive clunks a bit, but it's nothing worth whinging about.
I'm super impressed by this machine!!
If it's getting a bit too hot with WoW I've read you can cap your fps which will help a bit.
/console maxfps 40
(or whatever number you deem playable)
But exciting to know you can max all the settings!
Ordering mine in a few weeks and I can't wait!Mine just arrived!
I'd seen these things in stores before, but until you're sitting in front of one, you just can't grasp how big they are. It is ridiculous.
Everything is fine though. None of the problems that anyone has mentioned in this thread. Also, my housemate got her 27" i3 today, no issues either.
I can't believe I ordered this less than 48 hours ago.
I'd seen these things in stores before, but until you're sitting in front of one, you just can't grasp how big they are. It is ridiculous.
Everything is fine though. None of the problems that anyone has mentioned in this thread. Also, my housemate got her 27" i3 today, no issues either.
I can't believe I ordered this less than 48 hours ago.
If it's getting a bit too hot with WoW I've read you can cap your fps which will help a bit.
/console maxfps 40
(or whatever number you deem playable)
But exciting to know you can max all the settings!
That really shouldn't be necessary. Apple engineers probably load test the boxes for days on end, a few hours of WoW isn't going to do much damage.
Thanks for the tip; downloaded RiptIt as "trial version"; works like a charm. Will spend some money for that ...
I put some load on the machine with
1) RipIt reads a DVD
2) Watching a m4v-file in VLC
3) Let HandBrake take care about one new m4v
4) some background backup with rsync from my NAS to a USB-Disk
-> somewhere avg. 130 FPS
Next run:
1) Handbrake take care about another m4v
2) Backup with rsync still running
-> stunning avg. 190 FPS (peak even above 230 fps)
Happy camper here
Very expensive from Apple. You can upgrade the RAM yourself (in minutes - see YouTube) - order online at crucial.com
Save 40-50% depending on config.
My i7 arrived yesterday. I fired it and found no issues at all!
So I installed the extra 4GB RAM and put the boxes in the loft.
No yellow tint, no brightness whine. It gets warm when running WoW with all the settings maxed.
The hard drive clunks a bit, but it's nothing worth whinging about.
I'm super impressed by this machine!!
Hi Bartelby, where did you get your RAM from? And what combo are you using? Mix or same? And do you have any banks free?
**** i just noticed the hard drive sound .. its not super loud but i can definitely hear it and it seems to be always making noise .. is it worth returning it ? i mean thy are gonna make me go to the genius bar and i bet the tech will say they cant hear anything and its normal
Hard drives make noise. Some brands more than others. Unless you think it's somehow defective, don't bother. The hard drive is audible because the rest of the machine is so darn quiet.
i know .. the i5 i have downstairs is dead silent hard drive wise .. but this i7 makes noise even when browsing websites .. im on the phone with applecare right now ... so i will see what they say
when i get my i7 i want to test it out for this yellow tint and other issues people are having.
is there like a test page to check the yellow tints and also for dead pixels? or do you just open up a blank safari window or something?
@bartelby - are you having hd clunky noises all the time? do you have the ssd option?
is there like a test page to check the yellow tints and also for dead pixels? or do you just open up a blank safari window or something?
@bartelby - are you having hd clunky noises all the time? do you have the ssd option?
If i keep staring at the order status, will that make the config and ship quicker? Ordered on Monday AM, it says it will be delivered between Friday and a week from Thursday. I have to believe refreshing the page every minute is going to get them to build and ship it quicker...
This is going to look silly but: this is one of my most intense logic sessions with the CPU meter.
The thing is loafing around like nothing is happening - there's even two cores where nothing IS happening:
I seriously can go FAR beyond the "wall" my G5 had but didn't find until I was into it a few years.
I'm very seriously considering the i7 over a Mac Pro at the moment, and it would be exclusively for running Logic. I've been really encouraged by the couple of posts from people using it for Logic and having good results! Please can I ask for more information?
At the moment I'm trying to run sessions on my MBP, which isn't working out so well. The MBP is my "everything" machine, so it's cluttered with other software to the gills. Its 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo gets flustered pretty quickly with the sessions I'm throwing at it. These are usually pretty light on audio tracks but heavy on virtual instrument tracks I'm using the Rhodes and Hammond emulations a lot, plus Kontakt, plus occasional EXS24, plus other 3rd-party stuff... plus of course nice modelled EQs and other processors. The MBP starts to stutter at the point where my track is about 70% done, and even freezing and altering buffers only buys me so much grunt.
I've been saving for a "music only" machine for a year now, and waiting for the new Mac Pros avidly. But the news on that front seems pretty mixed (take a look at their forums they're not happy bunnies over there). The bottom line seems to be bad price/performance ratio in the lower-end machines, which is all I can afford in any case. So the top-end iMac suddenly starts to look very tempting.
Please, anyone who's using Logic, could you give me an idea of what kinds of
sessions the i7 is able to handle? What kind of virtual instruments (and in what quantities) you're throwing at it? EG, I'd love to know what AlienSporeBomb's "most intense logic session" looked like. Then maybe I can get a good idea of what to expect. I would dearly, dearly love to be able to make music without constantly having to micro-manage the computer to hold things together...
Finally, also on the musical front, how intrusive are you finding any hard drive noise? Quiet is important: it's going to be sitting 3 feet from the microphone, more or less. And finally finally, any thoughts on how worth-it the SSD option is and what would you use it for? System drive, or sample storage for Kontakt / EXS24?
Many thanks (for reading all this, if nothing else...
)!Got my i7 today. 2gb
Stupid thing has a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen so returning it. Starting to think it isn't worth the hassle of having. Returned two already.
Stupid thing has a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen so returning it. Starting to think it isn't worth the hassle of having. Returned two already.
New i7 27" 8GB iMac
Hi. Just received my new 27" iMac a couple hours ago. What a snap to use out of the box! Thought at first that there may be a bit of yellowing in the lower right, but when I tilt the screen a bit or move my head I no longer see it. If I hadn't been reading about the issue, I would never have noticed anything to begin with. No hard drive noise, no brightness whine.
All I can say is, "Wow!" This is one gorgeous, nice, fast machine. The design is stunning, with the wireless keyboard, trackpad, and mouse. If it were a woman, I'd be in lust...maybe I am!
Jerry
Hi. Just received my new 27" iMac a couple hours ago. What a snap to use out of the box! Thought at first that there may be a bit of yellowing in the lower right, but when I tilt the screen a bit or move my head I no longer see it. If I hadn't been reading about the issue, I would never have noticed anything to begin with. No hard drive noise, no brightness whine.
All I can say is, "Wow!" This is one gorgeous, nice, fast machine. The design is stunning, with the wireless keyboard, trackpad, and mouse. If it were a woman, I'd be in lust...maybe I am!
Jerry
I used this site to test for Dead pixels or any Yellow tint:
http://imac.squeaked.com/test.php
Thankfully I had none of those problems but the Separate HDD,tapping like a heart in a tin can is really getting to me.
Not to sure what to do. Could return it but then run the risk of a crap screen on the replacement.