New iMac help

[J0e Musashi]

I have the choice of five models. This unit is ONLY going to be used for iTunes (music and films), Pages, and for web browsing. I'm going for a 32GB RAM upgrade, and a 3TB Fusion Drive on whatever I get, but out of the five models below, what do I actually need?

1)
2.9GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512MB GDDR5

2)
3.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1GB GDDR5

3)
3.2GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5

4)
3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX 1GB GDDR5

5)
3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5

It's going to need to last at least four years, so any help appreciated.

[briareos_kerensky]

I have the choice of five models. This unit is ONLY going to be used for iTunes (music and films), Pages, and for web browsing. I'm going for a 32GB RAM upgrade, and a 3TB Fusion Drive on whatever I get, but out of the five models below, what do I actually need?

Everything you posted is absolute overkill for the intended purpose. In that aspect I would go for the first configuration just because it looks like to be the cheapest.

[J0e Musashi]

The price difference between the lowest and highest models is only ?479.99. The money isn't the problem, but I wanted to avoid anything unnecessary. I'll go with the cheapest one in that case. Thanks much. .

One last thing, is the 32GB RAM upgrade also uncalled for? I am likely to fill up a lot of the Fusion Drive with music and films alone. I don't want it slowing down as it gets filled up. Would 16GB or even 8GB of RAM be suitable?

[shaffy_oppa]

8GB would be completely fine...Go with the first configuration as for a fusion drive that's all up to you. I'd personally go with a standard 3TB because I highly doubt you'll see much of a difference with a fusion and its just not worth the extra ?200. Save yourself the extra ?680 or maybe put it towards one of the 27" versions seeing as its for movies.

[J0e Musashi]

This is a 27' version already. Standard HDD, and 8GB RAM it is then. Thanks much.

[Baseley09]

Is the cheapest one ?1,200 for real? That's jokes you could get a pc that would murder PS4's graphics for less.

Potentially, ahem.

Nothing against Macs, just that outlay seems a lot for what you need,

[Brad]

8gb is twice what you need

[J0e Musashi]

Why would anybody need 32GB RAM?

[Baseley09]

Only when rendering animation/cg really.

[speedlolita]

8gb is twice what you need

More like 32x what he needs...

[shaffy_oppa]

Hmmm I had a iMac around 4-5 years ago and it was a pretty decent display but how good is it these days? surely watching movies at 1920x1080 wouldn't look that great on a 2560x1440 display?

Macs are definitely great for iTunes and I personally would rather have a Mac if it wasn't for gaming and even then they're specs these days seem to show they'll be fine with games. Have you thought about going with a Mac Mini? I know the hard drive options aren't great but its not incredibly hard to upgrade yourself and then you have the option to pick the best display for yourself...

[briareos_kerensky]

Why would anybody need 32GB RAM?

If you're running a server, you would. Or a single client for large (20+ million polygons) 3D models or large video editing projects. And in the latter case, fast HDDs would play a more important role that just RAM quantity.

[J0e Musashi]

I've gone with the cheapest configuration. I've added a 3TB HDD, SuperDrive, Pages and AppleCare. ?1837.01 all-in. Considering I was about to shell out ?3346 on the top of the line model, that's quite a saving. A saving I can put towards my Milk desk.

[Brad]

Why would anybody need 32GB RAM?

If you were building a machine to be Part of the xbone cloud!!

[speedlolita]

Daryl might want to impress someone at work/at the pub!