My main home desktop is an Imac since 2006. I am now at my 4th Imac, all of which (except the first one which i bought new) went through a similar upgrade cycle. I bought a 2nd hand machine with less than a year on the counter, and adding an Apple care, it allowed me to use it for 2-2.5 years before the support expired. At that point i sold the machine and bought a newer model to go through the 2nd cycle. Reason for this, is that this while the imacs are quite reliable, experience showed me that you can expect at least one issue during these 2.5 years, and it is good to have a warranty in place....
until now the update decision was always easy. The new machine was invariably better than its predecessor. Either a bigger screen or a newer design and certainly better performance.
I have reached now my upgrade point,and for the first time this is not 100% clear to me. I have now an end 2013 imac 27. it runs out of warranty in December, and the natural thing would be to get a Retina 27 machine (which would be an upgrade as my current machine is only 2k screen). however, my current machine is the top of the line end of 2013 model (I was lucky to get it for a great price from a design studio):
it is an i7 4771 3.5 ghz, with 16GB RAM and a massive 4GB Nvidia GTX 780M gpu. As Apple increased by a lot the Imac prices, I can only afford now a the lowest Skylake i5 (6500 OR IF I'm lucky a 6600), and the basic GPU with 2gb of memory. I wonder if anyone in the forum has gone through a similar upgrade and can give any feedback. I am very worried to find myself with a weaker machine, especially as I am doing quite a bit of video conversions with the machine. Any feedback, advice is appreciated....
until now the update decision was always easy. The new machine was invariably better than its predecessor. Either a bigger screen or a newer design and certainly better performance.
I have reached now my upgrade point,and for the first time this is not 100% clear to me. I have now an end 2013 imac 27. it runs out of warranty in December, and the natural thing would be to get a Retina 27 machine (which would be an upgrade as my current machine is only 2k screen). however, my current machine is the top of the line end of 2013 model (I was lucky to get it for a great price from a design studio):
it is an i7 4771 3.5 ghz, with 16GB RAM and a massive 4GB Nvidia GTX 780M gpu. As Apple increased by a lot the Imac prices, I can only afford now a the lowest Skylake i5 (6500 OR IF I'm lucky a 6600), and the basic GPU with 2gb of memory. I wonder if anyone in the forum has gone through a similar upgrade and can give any feedback. I am very worried to find myself with a weaker machine, especially as I am doing quite a bit of video conversions with the machine. Any feedback, advice is appreciated....
