Ok… right now I have a 27" iMac [late 2012] with a 3.4g i7 processor
the new iMac 5K retina only has a 3.4g i5 processor… isn’t that a step backwards processor wise?
I was thinking I need a retina display to move forward, and was going to give this iMac to the wife, and then sell her MacBook 15" (I have a macbook 13" also)
Biggest problem today is determining relative performace… in the old days it was pretty much “clock speed”, that is not so much the case since the end of the “Pentium” days
I’d pay the extra for the better cpu and graphics card, as those are harder to upgrade later. RAM you can get the Apple minimum and buy third party RAM much cheaper. I’d get the SSD internal. With that configure it should be faster than your old iMac as the system as a whole would be superior, regardless of individual specifications.
so if the 2012 was an i7 and for $250 I can get a 4ghz i7 then lets see… (4.0/3.4)*12884 that would make it close to 15,157 … LOL a 17% GAIN… now to go rob a bank
so if the 2012 was an i7 and for $250 I can get a 4ghz i7 then lets see… (4.0/3.4)*12884 that would make it close to 15,157 … LOL a 17% GAIN… now to go rob a bank :)[/quote]
Retina 4 GHz 15,465
PLEASE install MacTracker. You could have saved yourself and several other people a lot of time and effort.
[quote=172081:@Dave S]Ok… right now I have a 27" iMac [late 2012] with a 3.4g i7 processor
the new iMac 5K retina only has a 3.4g i5 processor… isn’t that a step backwards processor wise?
I was thinking I need a retina display to move forward, and was going to give this iMac to the wife, and then sell her MacBook 15" (I have a macbook 13" also)
Shame the only desktop with Retina is this one[/quote]
If you are thinking about main workstation, go for the most powerful. Anything else you may regret one day or another.