Help choosing a Imac

Cycrow

almillar wrote: »

OP will pay a premium for an ALL IN ONE PC. Please stop comparing iMacs with tower PCs. You can buy all in one PCs. Compare iMacs to that. Now, go find a cheaper one, with the same specs. I'll let you off with the 5K screen. You'll find the price difference much smaller than you thought.
OP - you don't NEED an iMac, and a Mac Mini would do nicely, even for a starter doing graphics, bring your own keyboard, mouse and Monitor. You can also do graphics work on a PC of course...

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/desktop-pc-monitors/desktop-pcs/all-in-one-pcs/hp-pavilion-23-p030na-23-touchscreen-all-in-one-pc-10011486-pdt.html#cat-0

This one is cheaper than the cheapest iMac (even if you dont use the sale price)
It has a bigger screen (plus touch screen)
It has a faster cpu
It has more cpu cores.
it has a bigger hard drive

[Deleted User]

Nobody needs a Mac, plenty of people want one though!

On_Stanley_on

Thanks all for the advice (and Rants).

I know I don't need a Mac, however I have grown up using PC's, have an android phone and tablet. But I feel its time I tried something new and as the family all have I devices and they all like them and get on with them a Mac just feels to be the logical step.

I am looking at a max budget of £1200 so that all but rules out the 27 inch screen, but its going in a small room, but I'm use to 15 inch laptop screen so I'm sure I'll manage.

None of my gaming is ever that intense, tend to steer clear of online gaming.

I have do some research and think I'm going for this

1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Fusion Drive
Intel HD Graphics 5000
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (British) & User's Guide (English)
Accessory Kit


I am looking at ordering this week so any opinions are more than welcome.

OSO

VestanPance

That spec will be more than fine for your requirements.

shortchanged_2

On_Stanley_on wrote: »

Thanks all for the advice (and Rants).

I know I don't need a Mac, however I have grown up using PC's, have an android phone and tablet. But I feel its time I tried something new and as the family all have I devices and they all like them and get on with them a Mac just feels to be the logical step.

I am looking at a max budget of £1200 so that all but rules out the 27 inch screen, but its going in a small room, but I'm use to 15 inch laptop screen so I'm sure I'll manage.

None of my gaming is ever that intense, tend to steer clear of online gaming.

I have do some research and think I'm going for this

1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Fusion Drive
Intel HD Graphics 5000
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (British) & User's Guide (English)
Accessory Kit


I am looking at ordering this week so any opinions are more than welcome.

OSO

Fair play that is a cack spec for the money.

Mr_Toad

On_Stanley_on wrote: »

Thanks all for the advice (and Rants).

I know I don't need a Mac, however I have grown up using PC's, have an android phone and tablet. But I feel its time I tried something new and as the family all have I devices and they all like them and get on with them a Mac just feels to be the logical step.

I am looking at a max budget of £1200 so that all but rules out the 27 inch screen, but its going in a small room, but I'm use to 15 inch laptop screen so I'm sure I'll manage.

None of my gaming is ever that intense, tend to steer clear of online gaming.

I have do some research and think I'm going for this

1.4GHz dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM
1TB Fusion Drive
Intel HD Graphics 5000
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (British) & User's Guide (English)
Accessory Kit


I am looking at ordering this week so any opinions are more than welcome.

OSO

Enjoy your new machine, it'll be more than fine.

gonzo127

the issue with that spec will be the gaming, as the intel HD5000 sucks !!!.

ok it will be able to cope with Half life 2 and football manager at the moment, but generally any game which has half way decent graphics released after 2013 will not play well (if at all) on that system, but then again, even though gaming on mac has improved a lot recently, you will still be limited on which games will be availble so might not be as big of a problem

Bluepony

Apple have 0% finance on until 15th January. I have to say I got more help at the Apple Store than going into 3 different places to look at windows laptops. My daughter is into photography and at the moment keen to look at becoming an interior designer (she is 14). I asked the same question at all the places I went for help. "This is your 14 yr old daughter what would you buy her and why". Only the chap at Apple was able to give a definitive answer and even questioned her why she needed a laptop and not the mini mac as he felt that would be adequate for her.

We will be purchasing from Apple this time as the 3 windows PC's in our house which range from 4 to 2 years old are driving us made with being slow to browse the web and even with virus software are regularly having to have the doctor out to sort them out.

Cycrow

That pc will struggle with alot of games.

i have a similar gpu in my laptop, and it cant do the 3d matches in Football manager 2015 very well.

if you are only playing older, less demanding games, it might just about cope, anything newish it will struggle at

almillar

Thanks Cycrow. That HP is £700 on offer, down from £850, compared to £900 for the iMac. A much better model to compare than a tower computer. Really stupid when people compare it to £400 towers.
Shortchanged - enjoy the new computer. Not a gaming device at all, but great for everything else.