Not only cheap, but high end matched and tested pairs. Like many, I got mine from Other World Computing, aka OWC.
Apple just charges too much for memory upgrades. The smart choice is to always get the base amount. I just couldn’t afford the 1TB option, and working out my app, Capture One and Lightroom catalogues and document needs, I dont even come near half the 512GB yet. I already have more than that in photo files, so I would still need my current external drives. Whereas with pure SSD you do gain advantages. Also, the top option of Fusion Drive is 3TB. Ctein, a word class printer and general all round clever guy, opines in The Online Photographer that for reasons related to scratch disk use Fusion Drives might not be best for Photoshop use, basically on the grounds that in this case they may end up operating essentially the same as a conventional internal drive and thus it is not so much that you gain no advantage, but you actually could lose out big time. This debate doesn’t seem to apply to photography though. Many debate whether pure SSD is ‘user noticeable’ faster than Apple’s Fusion Drive in real world situations. analogue: iMac, instant film, money and hand forged paper weight. In the end it came down to budget constraints and the realisation that second from the absolute top is still great. More under the photo.ĭigital vs. The i7 core CPU would have been nice, but only for the faster clock speed.
Also, some upgrades work out cheaper when done on the top tier model. The big(ish) advantages this gives over the middle tier model are (slightly) faster processing (important for photo apps, which depend, for most tasks, on processor speed rather than multi core processing), and a better graphics card (see below). So, this means I got the the 3.3GHz model. Expanding on this, I figure a muscly, top of the line model computer from Apple should freaking well last for year and years.
For normal, non photographic use, it is still totally fine. Yet it still does remarkably well, considering its age and poor specs. It is a 2009 model – under powered at its time of conception, let alone now. I bought as much computer as I could afford, on the theory that this, to some degree, future proofs you. My Mac Mini just could not cope with what I was asking of it. I’m going to (try to) briefly list my purchase choices, just in case it helps anyone else in their thought process.Ĭos that is the thing at the moment, the choices are odd, close together and confusing.įirst, the model tier. There is bucket loads out there in Internet Land on what one should buy and how one should configure a new iMac for photography.
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