It is muddy and imprecise on the mid to top end. So I will be investigating something better in the way of external audio at some time. Together with this I am a bit deaf (quite a bit my wife says) and I would have to say that the audio is not as good by a long shot as my old 2009 27" iMac. I am a sound enthusiast and I do like good quality audio. I played around with editing a couple of files and the screen is a joy to use.įast? No figures for you but it is definitely much, much faster than my 2009 iMac 27" as you would expect. Made me feel that I must be a decent photographer and I feel that that my editing will be so much better now being able to see much more subtle differences.
It was at this point I was absolutely amazed by how beautiful the picture looked on this screen. I chose a good photo that I had personally taken and edited. It was a good, surreal photo by Gregory Crewdson who I admire but its resolution did not do the screen justice. I tidied up a few things and decided to put some new wallpaper on the desktop as the one I had there was looking average on this nice screen. Came back from my walk an hour later and it was only another 10 minutes or so and it finished. This quickly came back to about 1 and 1/2 hours so I decided to go for a walk. I used that and the progress told me it was going to take about 5 hours to transfer data. Luckily it had a a USB 2 port on the HDD also.
I had a 2TB external HDD with the backup on it FireWire 800 and I had a Thunderbolt to FireWire dongle for it but then realised it was FireWire 1. I came home and started reinstalling all the data from Time Machine. I picked up my 27" (as above) on Friday as scheduled after a foggy drive to Wangaratta in the morning. They should come down in price over time and I keep my computers for quite a few years so it would be worthwhile.
#Funny response to whats your eta upgrade
I saw the tear down on Maxfixit and am wondering if later on I might be able to upgrade the 128GB SSD to something larger e.g. It was hard to make a decision on Fusion drive versus SSD speed, versus storage capacity and I really could not afford to spend any more to upgrade to SSD at this point. I have been waiting to upgrade since January as the GPU in my 2009 iMac has been slowly dying so a couple of extra days is hardly significant in the scheme of things. when I ordered I checked on the Apple site and their estimate for delivery was 14th to 19th so I think that coming via another party isn't too shabby at all. At every point so far, they have been very pleasant and helpful and kept me informed on the progress of ordering, shipment etc.
I ordered a 27" iMac, i7 580 GPU 8GB RAM (will add aftermarket RAM myself) 3TB Fusion drive on the 8th and received a call today from them and they said they have received word that it is in transit and they expect delivery to them this morning or tomorrow morning. (Building up a relationship with them I am trying to say) They have been most satisfactory and my reasoning for ordering from them is for that and I am thinking that they would treat me well in the future being a customer who has bought from them as opposed to just a fly in repair job. We don't have anyone authorised Apple repairer that is any closer). So I ordered it through an Apple authorised repairer/reseller (Transient Computers) 90 kilometres away at Wangaratta, who I have used for warranty repairs on othe iMacs in the past.
I don't have an Apple Store within 300 kilometres of where I live and I didn't want to purchase direct from Apple with the possibility freight people would treat it less than kindly and have associated problems with returning it for repair/replacement when brand new.
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