[Jerome Morrow]

just adding the second image as it did not want to let me do it with the initial post

[Jerome Morrow]

I had purchased a maxed out iMac 5K, the upgraded gpu, upgraded processor, 1tb flash and 8 gigs of ram (upgraded to 24 gigs myself). The intended use for this computer was adobe indesign illustrator and some photoshop. I have to say this machine is terrible with Indesign and Illustrator. I first thought I had a dud of a machine, I contacted Apple support within 2 days, went through some problem solving as there was a graphic glitch on the screen in mission control. They decided I should return it for a replacement. I got the replacement, same problem so I contact Apple Support again, went through 3 service advisors, 2 of which were terrible, not getting back to me, letting me know what was going on. I eventually emailed Tim Cook and got a phone call the next day saying Tim Cook had seen the email and passed it on to someone else, within 2 days I had a new iMac 5K again (had been fighting to get a replacement for almost 3 weeks, 2 weeks of which the old was returned and nothing stated about refund or replacement).

So I just got the new one last Friday, installed my apps (Adobe CC latest updates) and transferred files over. I was hoping for something different, but after the first two I did not have high hopes. Machine runs terrible with Indesign and Illustrator, everything else OS X wise is snappy and runs well. This leads me to believe that Indesign and Illustrator are just not utilizing the gpu well, and thus giving such terrible service. I will be returning this machine for a refund. The machine I am comparing it against is the machine I was supposed to be upgrading from, a mid 2012 15″ Retina MacBook Pro 2.6 i7, 16 gigs of ram and NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 mb. The iMac which has specs that should be much much faster in both processor and gpu ran about the same, and some cases actually worse then my rMBP. Unfortunately there are not a lot of options with Apple. If I get a new MacBook Pro I am limited to 16 gigs of ram, if I go Mac Pro, price is about the same, a little bit higher with no monitor. I will be holding off till the next round of updates and see what comes of that.