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  5k iMac for Adobe Premiere specs advice?

  Posted by Derreck Tomas on October 29, 2014 at 9:20 pm

  I am getting a new 5K iMac and I would like to get into making projects in Adobe Premiere. The last time I made a project in Premiere was back in 2000 so I really don’t know how to spec the iMac out. What are the essential things that need to be upgraded? I would like to keep the base 256GB SSD if possible because from what I have read on this forum I will be buying external drives. Do I really need the i7 or can I keep the i5? Will I suffer with the 256GB SSD or do I need the 512GB SSD? How much ram? GPU M925x? I am not a max everything out type of person unless there is justification to do so. All advice greatly appreciated.

  Tero Ahlfors replied 11 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tero Ahlfors

  October 30, 2014 at 5:51 am

  Max everything you can afford because you’ll be stuck with your choices.
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  Derreck Tomas

  October 30, 2014 at 5:57 am

  Thanks for the reply. Forgive my lack of knowledge here but why would I max out the SSD if I will be using external hard drives?
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  Tero Ahlfors

  October 30, 2014 at 2:52 pm

  You don’t need to max out the SSD unless you have a looooooooot of applications or want to use that as a fast cache drive. I would put money on the CPU, GPU and RAM.

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