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Purchasing 27 inch iMac
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1: Only Apple know this, sorry.
2: The base model, for the uses you mentioned will be powerful enough.
3: I have the Fusion Drive in my Late 2012 iMac. The Fusion Drive is basically a SSD/Flash Drive and a standard hard drive, the OS gets to learn what Applications you use the most and shifts them on to the Fusion Drive to make loading times faster, this is a basic description of what a Fusion Drive does. A Fusion Drive will be no quieter than a standard iMac that just has a spinning hard drive for its sole means of storage.
Coming from a Windows PC to an iMac, the noise reduction was very noticeable, I find my iMac to be very quiet. The current model iMac's and also from the Late 2012 model, they only have one cooling fan, so are quiet. I use my iMac in a quiet bedroom and when sitting a few feet away from it at the normal distance you would be typing on the keyboard from, you do struggle to hear it. Obviously, if you are wanting the quietest iMac you can get, a SSD/Flash Drive model would be quieter, as the only noise coming from it would be the cooling fan (i.e. there would be no spinning hard drive to add to the fan noise). But SSD/Flash Drive models are considerable more expensive but at the same time provide a more quieter iMac and one that loads up applications, saving data, much more quickly than either a Fusion Drive iMac or a standard hard drive model.
Hope this helps
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Nice choice
Next iMac I get (in maybe 2-3 years time) I'm going to go with a full SSD one.
Maybe they will just use KabyLake laptop parts in the iMac instead of waiting for the desktop class cpu.
Same here (friendly sig), waiting for the fall release. The everymac site shows an iMac release in the last handful of years in October/November each year.. why not wait a tad longer and get either the current model cheaper, or the newer model with fun new stuff.
Yes, I am waiting.
Number 2 depends on your needs, by what you wrote any iMac will be great, so the 2nd model is a nice middle ground for that + power for more.
I am going for #3.
Question 3: don't go with the fusion drive. SSD all the way. Just put a cheap 2TB drive on it externally for media etc. (and another one for time machine backup).
The SSD size of fushion drive is a joke. Great for booting it up I guess.
If you know how to upgrade hardware on PC's I would not recommend getting an iMac aka All In One machine. Also read around the forum and notice problems people are having. You can change the RAM easy enough, even so, you need specific kind of RAM. I'm responding to your "future proofing".
Your post makes no sense at all - perhaps its my lack of coffee as I type this response.
The ream on the 27" iMac is very easy to change and very easy to buy, yes like all computers, it requires a certain type of ram. You buy a Dell, it requires a certain type of ram, likewise with Asus. That type is easy enough to find and purchase.
AIOs are not for the people who know how and want to upgrade the hardware themselves, it doesn't matter again if we're talking about an HP AIO or Apple's. Of course Apple has gone to extremes to seal the computer but again, AIO are not purchased for their expandability potential.
Future proofing is a debatable topic, but from the OP's post, it seems he decided to opt for a larger SSD, which is smart, because that should last him a while, the GPU is over kill but its his money and peace of mind.