regular or fusion drive?

[Mark Dobson]

Hi John

Sure you’ve told us all before but apart from the 1TB fusion drive which graphic card did you go for?

And again I’m presuming you went for the 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 processor.

I’m getting a bit twitchy and starting to add up the cost of all the peripheral thunderbolt accessories I’ll need.

And, whilst these seem to be an inevitable investment, I fear these will cost more than an iMac.

[Kevin Patrick]

[John Davidson] “I would recommend a USB 3 drive in RAID for media”

Sorry if it appeared I was implying using the Fusion drive for media. I was suggesting using the SSD portion of the fusion drive for your projects, along with FCPX and the OS. Files small enough to take advantage of the SSD speed.

[Kevin Patrick]

[Kent Beeson] “Woah, the fusion drive is only 5400rpm? Not 7200?”

I believe the non-fusion drive in the 21.5″ iMac is 5200 rpm. While the fusion drive in the 27″ iMac is 7200 rpm.

https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/

[Kent Beeson]

Hey John

Slightly piggy backing on my original question, but I’ve been reading about how some or many of the 2013 iMac’s are having problems with yellow screens, getting too hot after 4 or 5 hours of editing work, etc…do you find this with your 2013 iMacs?

Thanks

K
http://www.effective-video.com

[John Davidson]

Mine is pretty great. It does get a little warm in the back but nothing to write home about. Colors are excellent, etc.

Every release of every product will have a significant number of bad performers. If you have a local apple store they’ll fix it – usually pretty fast. I had an iMac 2011 specced out and the screen started flickering worse and worse – I took it to the apple store and the had it fixed by the next morning about 3 months ago.

Two weeks later, the seagate HD in a 2009 iMac my wife used got a recall and the Apple store swapped that out as well. We had never even gotten Applecare for that one.

Point is, they’ll take care of ya. The reason why I push the fusion is that it’s working great for me and in 3 years when you give it to Grandma or your kid, the internal storage will be relatively large enough for all their music and pictures and movies and i-crap, with no cables or wires needed to complicate their lives.

I should probably just do a quickie blog post with video of apps launching like crazy fast, huh?

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Kent Beeson]

thanks for info re: your new iMac – hope it stays healthy and works great.

Thanks

K
http://www.effective-video.com

[John Davidson]

Just wanted to change the subject for future searchers.

If the post in the middle of this page is correct

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1499206&page=2

The fusion does contain a 7200rpm. The mini and 21 use 5400rpm I think.

Thanks for straightening me out Kevin :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

I got the 675 and the fastest processor, too. It ended up being about 3k but with the USB3 and reduced glare I wish all our systems were the new iMac. 50% chance we end up getting another one in a few months. My system doesn’t connect to the tape room so I grabbed one of those blackmagic mini monitors with HDMI/SDI out. Pretty solid. I also really like the Promise Pegasus. Looks like they have larger capacities now than when I bought (I have 12tb I think).

Considering how much we paid for the 2010 mac pro maxed out 2 years ago (10k) I feel like we got off easy on this one :).

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[Lance Bachelder]

That’s the way I’m leaning too… just max it out via Apple BTO and not worry about it. The thought of opening the case later to try and install my own memory or drives is just too scary – plus everything is covered by Applecare…

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Irvine, California

[John Davidson]

Here, I made a little test between SSD and Fusion.

https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/12352/fusion-vs-ssd-fight

PS, the 27″ lets you change your own RAM out. It’s easier than ever to do now.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.