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Is Apple About to Make Sam Very Happy??

#61
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10/21/09 at 7:02pm
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You could order a DisplayPort adapter and use your 27" iMac as a monitor for your Mac Pro. 
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10/21/09 at 8:12pm
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I saw the cnet.com quick report on the 27" iMac...I was amazed that physically it's not a heckuva lot bigger than the '09 24" model. This means I now have no reservations about ordering one.

This is the configuration I think I'm set on.

  • 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 8GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 4x2GB
  • 1TB Serial ATA Drive
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) and User's Guide(Because I hate not having the number pad)
  • 8x double-layer SuperDrive
  • Apple Magic Mouse
  • Country Kit

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10/22/09 at 4:54am
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 Richard,

Where did you find the 3.06 configuration?

 

On the Apple order page there is only the 2.66 i5 and 2.86 i7 configurations.
 

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10/22/09 at 5:46am
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 Richard,

Where did you find the 3.06 configuration?

 

On the Apple order page there is only the 2.66 i5 and 2.86 i7 configurations.
 


Ron, the 27" 3.06 config is the third out of four on the iMac order page.

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10/22/09 at 7:29am
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Yep, what Craig S said.

 

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10/22/09 at 8:55am
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I think its totally worth it to go for the quad and get the better video card.  Personally if I was buying the 27 I wouldnt buy anything less than the i7 version with the 4x2 ram configuration and the fastest video card.  Tho I'm surprised, I thought the i7s liked to have their memory in 3 slots rather than 4 or 2.  My XPS is set up with ram in 3 slots I'm pretty sure.

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10/22/09 at 6:20pm
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Sam, re: i7 RAM chips, even though Apple is claiming they are using the desktop CPUs, they are still using the mobile chipsets which use 1066MHz RAM instead of the 1333MHz RAM that the desktop i7 chipsets use. So perhaps that is why there is a disconnect between preferred number of RAM slots between your XPS (and other i7 desktops) and the iMac?

Just hazarding a guess.
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10/22/09 at 9:24pm
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I thin it will make a negligible difference on the benchmarks but thanks for the explanation.  I don't get all tweaked over specs but this did seem 'odd'.

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