 Help! New 27" Imac - Dual Core Or Quad Core For My Needs..., Would the 3.33 Ghz suffice? |
 Sat 24 Oct 2009, 17:28
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Hi there community,
I have asked this question of many other people and forums but no one can give me a straight answer. I compose music using Logic Studio and all included sounds, VSTs and a lot of different libraries (EW/QL samples) with very little live recording. I want to upgrade my system (currently using a dual 2.3 Ghz PowerMac G5 with 8 GB of RAM) to one of the new 27" iMacs - definitely going to go 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB HD, but I'm torn as to processor. I just don't know whether the 3.33 Ghz Dual Core processor will be adequate or I should wait and get one of the Quad Core i7 processors for about $500 more money, but I'd have to wait. For what I do, will the processor make a huge difference? What I've been told is that processor only matters for audio encoding (which I am not really doing a lot of) or video work/rendering... not really applicable to composing with samples using Logic. Any thoughts? Thanks! Uvee |
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Wed 2 Jun 2010, 02:38
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Hey guys, we have always said since the "should i get X now or wait for Y in a couple of months" to purchase now ONLY if you NEED it otherwise why not wait? The great thing is that you could always purchase now and resell it although that is a hassle for me at least. I am quite happy with my 2 year old Mac Pro and all of my 32bit plugs work fine but when idle the Audio Bridge will crash every now and again.... Sorry, tangent. Anyway, I say you wait for the quad core but the lack of internal drives makes me hesitant to use one for music or video but thats because i am stuck in the 'old' way of thinking that reading and writing to an external isn't as reliable as an internal drive but that could be, like i said, an old wives tale at this point. Does the 27" iMac come with only 1 firewire port? Guess you can always daisy chain those if you needed more. Anyway, hope my .02 cents helped to confuse matters worse, kidding. Like i said at the beginning though, get it when you NEED it.
Viva La Panda! -------------------- *2 x 2.8 Quad MacPro, 6Gb ram, 512vram, Logic 9
*2 x 2.0 G5, Everything else.... These lists bum everyone out... ;( *Power Book 1.67, 2Gb ram, 128vram, 100hd, PodXtPro, Firebox, Logic 8, Live 7." |
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uvbnskoold Help! New 27" Imac - Dual Core Or Quad Core For My Needs... Sat 24 Oct 2009, 17:28
kayj_prod Whew! If you're going for 16 gb of RAM
th... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 08:39 ironhead well as long as logic is going to make use up the... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 09:24 lunar 1 QUOTE (uvbnskoold @ Sat 24 Oct 2009, 09:2... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 09:31 tweedmusic Hi There,
I would advise getting the Quad Core to ... Mon 26 Oct 2009, 08:34 houstonmusic well, no straight answers here, and you won't ... Mon 26 Oct 2009, 16:49
lunar 1 QUOTE (houstonmusic @ Mon 26 Oct 2009, 08... Tue 27 Oct 2009, 09:44 lepetitmartien On a practical way, if you see that your actual us... Tue 27 Oct 2009, 11:47 tweedmusic Hey ..I thought the idea of this forum was to be o... Wed 28 Oct 2009, 11:18 deaconblue QUOTE (tweedmusic @ Wed 28 Oct 2009, 05:1... Thu 29 Oct 2009, 08:04 tweedmusic QUOTE (deaconblue @ Thu 29 Oct 2009, 08:0... Fri 30 Oct 2009, 06:56 tweedmusic The Question , the one followed by the question ma... Fri 30 Oct 2009, 07:32 deaconblue QUOTE (tweedmusic @ Fri 30 Oct 2009, 01:3... Sat 31 Oct 2009, 06:01 lepetitmartien Mind that for now the iMac 27" has a CPU leak... Thu 5 Nov 2009, 04:00 |
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