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Given that we've already been recommending the iMac, and given that the entry prices have stayed the same ($1,299 / $1,799), it seems obvious that spec bumps like these would make a great product even better. This time around, as you'd expect, Apple's added Haswell processors, along with newer NVIDIA GPUs, faster 802.11ac WiFi and optional PCIe SSDs for faster transfer rates. Like the 2012 models, this year's iMac comes in 21.5- and 27-inch screen sizes, with low-glare displays and a thin bezel that measures just 5mm thick. The difference, though, is that while the MacBook Air is getting a bit long in the tooth, the iMac was just revamped a year ago - and it's still a tempting product. Now, Apple's come out with some new iMacs, and these, too, are basically the same as last year's, just with fresh components inside. In addition to announcing the iPhone 5s, the company refreshed its MacBook Air line with Haswell processors, leaving everything else unchanged. Which means, don't waste your time and pass (and this is an easy one to call).This is an "s" year for Apple, and no, we're not just talking about the iPhone.
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Pass unless you are given a major price reduction, which they are unlikely to do given how far apart you will be. I know of what I speak, I regularly buy and sell tech for our business. Only way I'd buy this machine is if the price were cut in half. No SSD just kills this machine, as does the price.
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You can pick up a rock-solid external WD 4TB drive for a hundred bucks, give or take a 4TB WD Passport is currently selling for $119 retail, and that's convenient portable storage and you can likely find it cheaper. (Yes, I know, there are other criteria, but I'm not wasting my time comparing or arguing about tflops, cuda cores, rops, clocks, bus, etc.) A 3 TB hard drive? Who cares. For comparison, the 2017 iMac's GPU scores 13980. Today good cards are doing five times that number. That money would have been much better spent on an SSD.
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Don't be overly enamored by the RAM it's cheap, and it's unlikely you'll be making full use of the 32 gigs. And it's not "maxed out," as it lacks the most critical piece: a full-on SSD. A base 2017 27" 5k iMac retails new for $1800, just three hundred more than this used, nearly four-year old machine. However in that same case the media is so much larger it won't fit on a typical iMac SSD anyway. You can devise situations such as editing multi-cam ProRes where the I/O load is much greater, and in that case the Fusion Drive will be a limit. I can't even tell much difference between application launching time or boot time between Fusion Drive and SSD. That further diminishes any possible performance difference from the boot drive, since all the media is external. In most cases professionals use external storage and I have about 100 terabytes of Thunderbolt RAID arrays connected to these systems. That is when editing less than 500GB of H264 material on the internal drive. In terms of real-world video editing performance, there is no major difference attributable to the hard drive. I have tested the video editing performance of the 20 side-by-side many times.
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I use them all for professional video editing with FCPX.
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I own a 2013 iMac 27 with 3TB FD, 2015 iMac 27 with 1TB SSD and 2017 iMac 27 with 2TB SSD.