Hey everyone...i just needed some advice on when should i get a new imac,another words when should i upgrade to a new imac...my mac is fine,i have a white imac with isight (2007)running tiger 10.4-- NO PROBLEMS at all but whats the time one should upgrade...when the computer breaks down ?...every 5 years?..... or every 3 years ? ...or every 10 years ?
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What's the time frame to get a new iMac ?
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If you would be upgrading to something with pretty much the same spec and screensize then you might as well wait until your old one breaks. However if it were me, I would upgrade to the i7 just because of the sheer difference. Might not be absolutely nessasary but it's still amazing over anything else i've used.
Depends if you have the cash to splash I suppose. (I don't, still ordered the i7 though ha)
Depends if you have the cash to splash I suppose. (I don't, still ordered the i7 though ha)
yes i would upgrade to a bigger screen size and better imac of course but when should i upgrade if the computer is running fine ?
I just upgraded from a 17"/1.8GHz PPC iMac to a 21.5"/Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33GHz iMac, and am very happy with it. There was nothing wrong with the older iMac, running under OS 10.5. My wife inherited my older iMac, and is very happy with it, too.
The PPC iMac original hard drive was small at 80GB or so, but I replaced it with a 250GB Hitachi drive. The new iMac has a 1TB hard drive inside and enough slots for 16GB of RAM, versus 2GB (maybe 4GB?) of RAM for the old one.
What you may want to do is to see if Apple will have some sales coming up, or maybe after Christmas. These discounts are around $100.00, similar to educational discounts.
The PPC iMac original hard drive was small at 80GB or so, but I replaced it with a 250GB Hitachi drive. The new iMac has a 1TB hard drive inside and enough slots for 16GB of RAM, versus 2GB (maybe 4GB?) of RAM for the old one.
What you may want to do is to see if Apple will have some sales coming up, or maybe after Christmas. These discounts are around $100.00, similar to educational discounts.