just bought a 27" 3.4ghz!

snow patrol · 17 Jun 2011 at 01:03

couldn't hold out any longer...finally bitten the bullet and ordered a 27/3.4/1gb/2gig gfx and ordered 16gigs of ram from crucial. Do a load of photo editing work and music making stuff so reckon i'll use it well. Should be here in a week or so

just a thought though - i didn't order the track pad and i'm very used to using it on my macbook...do people actually use these on their desktop imacs?

any way, i 'm not anti windows and i have to say i've found win7 very stable but i was tempted by the screen size, increased resolution and build quality of the imac so decided to treat myself for my 30th birthday

snow patrol · 17 Jun 2011 at 01:10

cheers mate, forgot to mention that i got a ~£300 discount cos my friend works at the apple store

that's what swung it for me really!

snow patrol · 17 Jun 2011 at 02:12

apparently lion is free for anyone buying an imac from now on in

snow patrol · 17 Jun 2011 at 12:46

Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
should have got it with the SSD option installed. Apparently its the fastest mac ever even over the macpros at single tasks. Quite an incredible machine!

but that option is ridiculously expensive from apple! Couldn't justify it.

snow patrol · 17 Jun 2011 at 14:21

£1686 with 3 years of apple care. The discount was about £350 iirc

snow patrol · 18 Jun 2011 at 17:28

wow, that is pretty damn quick

snow patrol · 23 Jun 2011 at 00:30

Shadowness said:
Nice enjoy!

I got a 27" 3.4 too, I installed a Vertex 3 SSD in there though. Sod paying all that for Apple's inferior SSDs!

It's rapid!!

i thought there were major issues with fan speeds etc when changing the hard drive?

my imac arrived today - but it's still in it's box. going to unbox and set up tomorrow