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Quick decision help needed 21.5" 2019

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zerozoneice

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For the same price, what would be the better package?

21.5" quadcore i3 3.6, 16gb ram, 1tb ssd, 555X
21.5" hexacore i5 3.0, 8gb ram, 1tb fusion, 560X

i know i can upgrade the HDD in the hexacore to a SATA SSD, but i'd rather not open it straight away :)
RAM would be more difficult since it's on the back of the board.

Purpose: light photo, video editing..mostly imovie, maybe a bit of aftereffects once in a while.
Won't be my main machine, used mostly for browsing, light gaming (cs:go) and photo library management.
 
ok. thanks.
but let's just say i'll open the hexacore up and just swap the hdd for a SATA SSD and leave RAM the same..
would this 10min job be a reason to tip the scales?
 
niteflyr said:
No. The Apple SSD is 4-5 times faster than a Sata SSD. You'll be glad you got the extra RAM also.
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yes, i know..synthetic benchmarks...in real life i'm not sure i'll feel the difference between 2400mb/s read and 500mb/s..maybe in file copy, but in normal OS tasks...?

16gb yes, very valuable.
but the question is...worth opening up to upgrade ram and hdd w/ssd?

is the i3 good enough for 4K light editing and stuff?
as far as the 555X vs 560X who cares about 5-10fps more, they're both as bad :)
 
zerozoneice said:
yes, i know..synthetic benchmarks...in real life i'm not sure i'll feel the difference between 2400mb/s read and 500mb/s..maybe in file copy, but in normal OS tasks...?

16gb yes, very valuable.
but the question is...worth opening up to upgrade ram and hdd w/ssd?
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I think it would make it worth more, but are you voiding a warranty? If you have to take out the whole board to upgrade the RAM, you might as well put in as much as possible.. and *maybe* upgrade the CPU while you're at it and sell the i5.
 
CE3 said:
I think it would make it worth more, but are you voiding a warranty? If you have to take out the whole board to upgrade the RAM, you might as well put in as much as possible.. and *maybe* upgrade the CPU while you're at it and sell the i5.
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There's no warranty per-se, thats why it's so cheap (~1100 usd). I'll call the local apple retailer to see how much would they charge for replacing the components so i can at least keep their work warranty (with my components). If not, it'll still be worth opening it up, my service guy did hundreds so far, no issues...smooth hands :)

Found an original apple ssubx 512 ssd (12+16 pin) for 130 usd, thinking of sticking that in as opposed to the sata ssd...hmm
 
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