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Ordered Late 2015 27 Retina iMac Thread

Just placed my order!
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Sirmausalot said:
The only thing I don't understand is why people order a trackpad AND a mouse. BTW and FYI, Apple shorts you a lightning/USB cable if you order them both with the computer.
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I'm anxious to see how force touch works throughout OS X.
 
Sirmausalot said:
The only thing I don't understand is why people order a trackpad AND a mouse. BTW and FYI, Apple shorts you a lightning/USB cable if you order them both with the computer.
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I have both. I use the mouse most of the time and trackpad for gestures. I tried using the trackpad by it self but my wrist got tired after a few minutes.
 
Sirmausalot said:
The only thing I don't understand is why people order a trackpad AND a mouse. BTW and FYI, Apple shorts you a lightning/USB cable if you order them both with the computer.
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They both serve their purpose.......I use both, depending on what I'm doing at the time.

I ordered the trackpad separately as I didn't want it to delay my shipment.......I got the trackpad in 2-days!
 
Sirmausalot said:
As always, we need to know what you are doing with the computer. The i7 supports multi-threaded operation especially helpful for high end video and audio production. The thing that helps most in day to day operation is arguably the flash storage as boot up times and program launching are nearly instantaneous -- and coming from a traditional hard drive you will be wowed.
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No video, purely photo editing on the device. I think the i5 would be fine?
 
Flunkyturtle said:
No video, purely photo editing on the device. I think the i5 would be fine?
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Then it probably will be. If you are using higher end photo editing software like Photoshop and heavily manipulating complex photo projects, then you will see a speed boost from the more powerful processor. Simple color corrections, cropping, and compressing won't be that much different. Consider the i7 Prosumer or professional grade and the i5 consumer grade.
 
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Yay! My 27" 5K retina has arrived (i5 3.3GHz, 395, 16GB, 1TB SSD) and is sitting side-by-side with its older (but by no means old) non-retina cousin (i7 3.5GHz, 780M, 32GB, 1TB SSD). The migration assistant transfer is currently proceeding (over thunderbolt) at 205MB/s yes Mbytes! Sure beats restoring from a time machine.
 
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Should arrive just in time for the Candy Crush Regionals. Hope it's powerful enough for Flash. EDIT: also got 4x8 GB RAM (32GB) from the other thread in the iMac Forums for ~130$.
 

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Received today :D
I love this thing, the display is absolutely perfect and amazing. Now I just need to order the Magic Trackpad 2 :)
 

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Sirmausalot said:
BTW and FYI, Apple shorts you a lightning/USB cable if you order them both with the computer.
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I was worried this might happen, that is a complete joke, you pay the same money for them so why do you get less? I almost purchased the Magic Trackpad separately but thought there's no way Apple would do this...

EDIT: Recieved my iMac this morning, and it turns out they short you two lightning cables! The box only comes with one! Not happy about this... What if both your kb and tp die at the same time... Stingy and nasty move on Apples part that was :/
 
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Kipchak said:
Should arrive just in time for the Candy Crush Regionals. Hope it's powerful enough for Flash. EDIT: also got 4x8 GB RAM (32GB) from the other thread in the iMac Forums for ~130$.
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Link to the RAM? OWC wants $264 for 32GB.
 
Ordered today:

27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display
  • 4.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz
  • AMD Radeon R9 M390 GPU
  • 256GB Flash Storage
  • Magic Trackpad 2
2544€ with a company discount.

I'll upgrade the RAM later.
I have a 1TB external SSD for my photos and a 3TB NAS for other stuff, so the internal SSD is mainly for OSX, Apps and a virtual OS.

It will replace my good old 20" iMac (2008).
Main usage will be Image processing in Capture One Pro 8 and some BD transcoding for my NAS media Server.
 
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27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display

$2,954.00
• 4.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz
• 8GB 1867MHz DDR3 SDRAM - two 4GB
• 1TB Flash Storage
• AMD Radeon R9 M395 with 2GB video memory
• Magic Mouse 2
• Magic Keyboard (English) & User’s Guide
• Accessory Kit


I'm very excited, sold my late 2012 27" to get this thing.
 
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Macguypro, where did you buy it? That's $300 less than the one I just ordered, configured identically (except I got the wired numeric keyboard, not the magic keyboard). Mine hasn't shipped yet, from Sweetwater.
Thanks
Fred

Macguypro said:
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27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display

$2,954.00
• 4.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.2GHz
• 8GB 1867MHz DDR3 SDRAM - two 4GB
• 1TB Flash Storage
• AMD Radeon R9 M395 with 2GB video memory
• Magic Mouse 2
• Magic Keyboard (English) & User’s Guide
• Accessory Kit


I'm very excited, sold my late 2012 27" to get this thing.
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fredmant said:
Macguypro, where did you buy it? That's $300 less than the one I just ordered, configured identically (except I got the wired numeric keyboard, not the magic keyboard). Mine hasn't shipped yet, from Sweetwater.
Thanks
Fred
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Educational store
 
I ordered a 27-inch 3.3GHz QC w/ a 512GB SSD on Friday, supposedly it'll be delivered by Nov 5, but it's still processing. Not holding my breath that it'll arrive in time, I have to leave the country on Saturday for international travel and might end up canceling if it hasn't left processing by Thursday.

... and right after I posted this, it was moved to preparing for shipment. Are Apple ninjas monitoring the forum? :)
 
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My 4.0 Skylake i7 moved to preparing for shipment today, with a 11.7 - 11.11 delivery date. Ordered 32GB memory yesterday from OWC, but still showing processing. Ordered a USB superdrive with my iMac last Friday and it was delivered today!
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Purchased to replace an aging iMac that we use for ProPresenter in our main auditorium. I'd love to go higher end but it would be cost prohibitive. And this thing should still be a beast for what it's doing with the 290. Our 2009/2010 Mac Pros are still doing great for the heavy lifting and RAID arrays.
 
mattoligy said:
I was worried this might happen, that is a complete joke, you pay the same money for them so why do you get less? I almost purchased the Magic Trackpad separately but thought there's no way Apple would do this...

EDIT: Recieved my iMac this morning, and it turns out they short you two lightning cables! The box only comes with one! Not happy about this... What if both your kb and tp die at the same time... Stingy and nasty move on Apples part that was :/
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You can petition Apple for another and they will likely send it to you. But for the rest of you, make sure you order an additional keyboard or trackpad separately.
 
I have made the "mistake" of ordering a 1TB Fusion drive in my iMac that is due to arrive in two days.

My usage is:

- Web browsing
- Shell
- Various IDEs like XCode and PHPStorm
- Spotify, Skype, Pages
- Movie watching

I "very" rarely do video or photo editing.

So my questions are:

Does anyone have any hard data on how much space the OS takes of the 24GB?

Does anyone have any idea of how much slower machines with a 1TB Fusion and 32GB RAM are waking up? Is it a serious issue or just a few more seconds?

Some facts would be nice on the issue!
 
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