So I’m trying to advise a client (small agency) on a new iMac purchase. They will do a fair share of their own editing on it and want to know i7 or Fusion Drive. Are the new i5’s up to the task? RAM is not a problem, plenty of that laying around. They have some TB drives as well so that’s not a factor. Basically if you took the top line 27″ and had $200 more to spend would you spend it on the i7 or the Fusion Drive. The 2GB graphics card will do fine as well I suppose.
I only have experience with i7 and Xeon so I can’t really speak to the i5 performance. And even though I use SSDs now, a 7200 rpm disk was always up to the task.
Anybody?