Is this true

Rooky007 · 27 Mar 2013 at 10:21

I have read cant remember where and a guy at the apple store at Trafford centre says the 21.5" iMac are more popular is this cos of the price?

As the guy at the store says it because it plenty big enough and good enough for everything people want to do.

Ive a 27" at the moment and I cant see myself downgrading in size even though if the specs be better.

LiE · 27 Mar 2013 at 10:57

Different people, different needs.

I went for a 21.5 for 2 reasons. 1) I don't gain anything by having the 27", in fact unless I get a 680mx gaming at native resolution wouldn't be great. 2) It's in my living room, and 27" is far too big for the room.

Rooky007 · 27 Mar 2013 at 11:10

Suppose you right it all down to what people want. I suppose people sometime get the 27" for the stake of it?

But I seem to like the screen size for Photo work. But I cant seem to afford the 27" anymore if I went for a new one

passey89 · 27 Mar 2013 at 11:49

i sit about a keyboards length away from my monitor so 27" would be too big that close.

Then a 660m won't be able to handle gaming at decent fps on a 1440p screen anyway.

My 21" is arriving tommorow excited now never had a mac before.

LiE · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:31

Very similar reasons to myself passey89.

Rooky007 · 27 Mar 2013 at 16:32

passey89 said:
i sit about a keyboards length away from my monitor so 27" would be too big that close.

Then a 660m won't be able to handle gaming at decent fps on a 1440p screen anyway.

My 21" is arriving tommorow excited now never had a mac before.

Did you order a stock model or upgrade?

passey89 · 27 Mar 2013 at 17:00

Rooky007 said:
Did you order a stock model or upgrade?

stock model £960 with student discount.

8GB of RAM is more than enough and if i want a SSD can put 1 into the thunderbolt port.

theheyes · 27 Mar 2013 at 17:13

A large screen is one of the perks of desktop computing. If you like the 27" model going smaller seems a bit of a step backwards.

ninja2000 · 27 Mar 2013 at 19:24

I just got a 27" and I sit a keyboard away from it

The reason I went 27 is desktop real estate! I considered multi monitor but decided to go this route instead. 2560x1440 is glorious and makes my coding a bit easier having so much real estate available

passey89 · 28 Mar 2013 at 19:58

well it arrived today just been installing my software on it atm.

currently have photoshop
ilife
xbmc
few others as well i'm liking the magic mouse atm with the forward backwards on websites.

will have a full trial tommorow and might try putting windows on it tomorrow