How abt this? i7 2.0 GHz with AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 256MB GDDR5

right now im using the 256mb ram GC, what i can say is when i watch blue-ray rip movie converted (5.5gb) it still stuck and lagging, recommend you to buy the 15" 1GB GC, for ram you can upgrade later..upgrade with apple is damn Expensive

Oic....thanks for ur advise here. One more thing is should i get HDD 720GB 5400rpm or 500GB 7200rpm?

mm? my older MBP with 256mb 9400M (not even using the discrete 9600M GT) also can play HD movies (dl from itunes) without problem. really need 1gb VRAM to play bluray rips??

cmj1982 from my experience, 5400rpm vs 7200rpm isn't noticeable at all

what i found that play should be no problem..when you try to fast foward the bar it lagging, i ask Apple care, said it the GC not really supported bla bla bla...but i still not try at the 1gb GC

The Lion Os can be downloaded later for free

Don't worry about Lion OS X, you'll get it for free.

guys need advice im planing to get

imac 27-inch: 2.7GHz
2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
2560 x 1440 resolution
4GB (two 2GB) memory
1TB hard drive1
AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512MB

for my photo editing like lightroom n photoshop n adobe illustrator. how?

@mcline_007 - How you mean How? are you asking whether those iMac spec can handle lightroom, photoshop and illustrator? the Aswer is YES.

Fast enough for sure but you'll need 8GB or better still 16GB unless you're only editing animated gifs. :-)

Also consider replacing the HD with an SSD. I know very dear but also very fast.

And that's about all you can upgrade on an iMac.

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Added on August 13, 2011, 2:08 amApple charge quite expensive. You can change it yourself with any SATA HD but it's quite scary cause you'll have to open up the iMac, remove the LCD and you'll probably get some dust between the iMac glass screen and the LCD.

And also you'll lose automatic HDD fan control because the non-Apple HDs dun have a connection for the thermal sensor. Because of the loss of that sensor, the iMac will spin the HDD fan really high but there is software that will allow you to set the fan speed manually.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Aug 13 2011, 02:08 AM

[quote=hairol83,Aug 13 2011, 12:21 AM]@mcline_007 - How you mean How? are you asking whether those iMac spec can handle lightroom, photoshop and illustrator? the Aswer is YES.

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thanks bro

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Added on August 13, 2011, 3:12 pm[QUOTE][quote=soonwai,Aug 13 2011, 01:57 AM]
Fast enough for sure but you'll need 8GB or better still 16GB unless you're only editing animated gifs. :-)

Also consider replacing the HD with an SSD. I know very dear but also very fast.

And that's about all you can upgrade on an iMac.
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thanks for the advice bro. but upgrading 16GB is very expensive for apple...
can i change the ram wit other brand not from apple?

This post has been edited by mcline_007: Aug 13 2011, 03:12 PM

Sure, just use the cheap ram from Corsair or Kingston. 16GB (4x4GB) will be about RM250.

Can i buy i7 iMacs at resellers? I don't have CC and also don't trust online transactions (no offence).

yes you can, why not? so you are going to pay cash right? no prob.

I went to AllIT hypermarket at lowyat and they said the only place you can buy an i7 model is online.

Yes, I'm going to pay cash.

I'm getting i7, 4GB RAM, 6970 (2GB), 2TB HDD and ACPP for my gaming, video editing, full HD movies, extreme multitasking, CAD, song arranging/recording. Is 4Gb RAM enuff?

I read one of the posts saying that the only place with student discount is at limkokwing and k-12. Is this still true? or have other resellers offered d same? I'm a university student.

Edit : I just called apple and they said the only place for i7 is online. What do I do? They also said that education discount is only offered online. No way of buying it then?

Edit #2 : I called epicentre limkokwing, not only can't I buy an i7 ordered through them, the education discount also doesn't apply to other university students.

p.s. ugh,i havent bought an apple yet i'm having all these troubles d. wonder wut'd happen in d future.

This post has been edited by abafamny_90: Aug 16 2011, 01:24 PM

Just to let you know, ordering CTO model will take you up to 3 weeks plus to arrive coz you are asking the "AllIT hypermarket" to buy on behalf of you.

Since that you are doing lots of heavy stuff, i would suggest to upgrade at least 8 or 16GB of RAM.

Actually you can ask like Switch at The Mines (for example) to buy those CTO model for you and yeah, you can't get the edu price once you place an order with them.

Basically, if you want to get edu price, you NEED to buy from Online Apple store.

Why don't apple grant edu discount at resellers...

@abafamny_90

i believe Apple have their own reason not to. Anyway, as i said before, you want to get EDU Price with that CTO model, you need to purchase it thru online store.

i guess ur only choice is to ask an apple reseller to order one for u. they still go through the same process of buying it online, but u pay them cash. but yeah as others have mentioned, no edu discount and it'll be quite a long wait

other than that..well either u just buy the available models, or get someone (friend or relative) to order it online for you using their credit card. then u pay them cash

better yet, learn to trust online payments u'll need to do it sooner or later