I've been using a 3.4 GHz iMac for Live. My spouse is going to take it over, and because I don't feel the need for a 27 in. monitor, I was planning to go to 21.5 in screen. Then I found out that the 21.5 in iMacs have a max. processor speed of 2.9 GHz.
I wonder if the difference in processor speed would make any noticeable difference in Live performance.
Anyone have feedback on this?
Thanks.
Orson
iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
a few months of life expectancy ? 
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I recommand the quite or hot pearls hunt in the https://www.psyshop.com CDs seller database (to plan aspirine).
"Less is more", motto of minimal art.
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
Are they both running a quad core i7?
if so, there'd be minimal difference, but if they are NOT running the same family of cpu, i5 vs i7 etc, then you may see a significant
difference.
if so, there'd be minimal difference, but if they are NOT running the same family of cpu, i5 vs i7 etc, then you may see a significant
difference.
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
If the 3.4 Ghz iMac is the iMac i7 3.4 27" (2012) and the latter 2.9 Ghz iMac is the iMac i5 2.9 21.5" (2013), then these are 2 different processor families. The older with I7-3770 is likely to be faster still and in Geekbench 3 Multicore 64 it has about a 27% better score than the I5-4570S.orsonk wrote:I've been using a 3.4 GHz iMac for Live. My spouse is going to take it over, and because I don't feel the need for a 27 in. monitor, I was planning to go to 21.5 in screen. Then I found out that the 21.5 in iMacs have a max. processor speed of 2.9 GHz.
I wonder if the difference in processor speed would make any noticeable difference in Live performance.
Anyone have feedback on this?
However, you're in luck as this 21.5" model should be able to order with a 3.1 GHz Core I7-4770S, which is somewhat faster than the older i7 model. Ask Apple.
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
The difference is 500MHz
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Stromkraft
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
That's an insufficient and even ignorant analysis. Even if you had written Ghz.Airyck wrote:The difference is 500MHz
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
Stromkraft wrote:That's an insufficient and even ignorant analysis. Even if you had written Ghz.Airyck wrote:The difference is 500MHz
I was being a smart ass (or a dumb ass ) 
though... 1000MHz = 1GHz so 3.4GHz - 2.9GHz = 500MHz or 0.5GHz
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Re: iMac 2.9 GHz vs 3.4 GHz -- what difference?
Well, that figures. :mrgreen:Airyck wrote::P I was being a smart ass (or a dumb ass :P ) :lol:Stromkraft wrote:That's an insufficient and even ignorant analysis. Even if you had written Ghz.Airyck wrote:The difference is 500MHz
though... 1000MHz = 1GHz so 3.4GHz - 2.9GHz = 500MHz or 0.5GHz
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