Got a new imac i7 yesterday.

blueeggs · New Member Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Posts: 4

Went to my local apple store and got myself a new imac i7. The speed of this system is amazing! They started stocking The i7's a few days ago. Im glad I waited and saved some more money for this one.

Cypher · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject:

Congratulations,

I would just love to get my hands on a Quad Core 27" iMac Embarassed

I think it's just a bit out of my league though Razz

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philiparcario · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 5:46 pm Post subject:

I have the 27 inch with a 3.06 cpu and the better graphics card it is very fast, so your i7 must fly
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blueeggs · New Member Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Posts: 4

Yeah, I ripped a 2 hr movie in handbrake and only took 25 min took about 2 hrs to do on my mini 1.83 c2d. Handbrake uses hyperthreading so it really takes advantage of the i7.

iMav · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:03 pm Post subject:

Did they resolve all those screen/display issues with the new iMacs?? (haven't been following that for a while)
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blueeggs · New Member Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Posts: 4

Actually I exchanged mine today at my local apple store. I had some yellow tint on mine like alot of other posts I read. Even as it was very slight yellow. Alot of people would not have noticed. I called apple care and they told me they were aware of the issue but it should be fixed by now. My mac was made week 12 of this year. Like a week before I purchased it. Apple care told me I could take it back for an exchange. The apple genius also noticed the color variation across the screen. I said I hope the next isnt like this one. He said he would opening them untill I found one I was happy with. The first one we opened had a perfect screen. No yellow or dead stuck pixels. It was also made the same week as my returned Imac. I was very amazed at the level of customer service. Thank you Apple.

iMav · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:00 am Post subject:

Interesting. I haven't owned an iMac for quite a while (well, I do have an old 17" G5 iMac). I purchased a 20" iMac (CD) right after the switch to intel. I enjoyed it, but eventually sold that iMac and a 12" iBook in favor of a first gen Macbook.

Since then, I seem to jump from one new MB/P release to the next. Smile

I'd love the raw horsepower of one of the new iMac's for all the virtualization I do for work...but I'd rather they come out with beefier MBP's. (my current MBP sports 8GB of ram and (of course) a core2duo CPU, but would love to see a mobile i5 or i7)
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cheef · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 11:42 am Post subject:

I've had my 27" i5 for a couple of months now and absolutely love it. I monitored the 200+ page thread on the Apple discussion forums for around 2 months before I pounced and bought one.

The problem certainly kept me at bay until I was sure Apple were reacting to it. I was very lucky though, no yellowing, and not one flicker on my 2009 week 45 build.

The screen real estate is incredible, and so bright. They're certainly a great piece of technology and very powerful.
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philiparcario · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:31 pm Post subject:

philiparcario · Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject:

a mac book pro 15 inch with a 3.06 ghz cpu a 750gb hdd and 8 gb ram is 2900 if you do the ram, hdd yourself. 900 more then the imac. of course if you need it to be portable you don't have a choice.
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blueeggs · New Member Joined: 06 Apr 2010 Posts: 4

Yeah, I love being able to have two full safari windows open side by side have still have room left over.

iMav · Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 9:48 am Post subject:

philiparcario · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:48 am Post subject:

yes they really hit you hard in the wallet to be portable.
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synology 2tb disk station

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