>5k, 27" IPS >good colors >i5/i7 >1tb fusion >mediocre graphics, but who cares, still better than integrated >upgradable RAM up to 64GB (32 if older) >cozy OS
Seriously, I priced together a nice computer for photo editing with a 8700k, and with ONLY integrated graphics it came out to over $1700. If you just bought the iMac and 32GB of ram, with the included 8GB you'd have 40GB for the price of $2k...
>i7-8700k = $475, if you can find one >water cooling = $100 >mobo = $150 >32GB ram = $350 >1tb SSD = $250 >PSU = $100 >non-autistic case = $75 >keyboard + mouse = $150 >good 27" 4k monitor on par-ish with iMac = $600 >win10 (only needed because LR/PS) = $80 >~ $2.3k ... just using integrated and having less RAM (price in Canadian pesos, and I'm even being conservative)
I understand not buying MBPs because you can find a Dell XPS that is twice as fast for $500 less, but iMacs are a good deal if you can a recent refurb. But can this "all Apple products are overpriced" meme die? Some things like the SE and iMac (not pro) are great deals if you aren't a Sup Forumsaymer.
I was with you until that last part. Cringy faggot.
Tyler Fisher
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Brayden Torres
>look mom! i'm getting butthurt about being redpilled on applel trash again!
Nicholas Davis
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Landon Gutierrez
confirmation bias
I can find "heating issues" for thinkpads, XPS, MacBook pros, etc just by googling for it.
Michael Thomas
>t. assblasted mactoddler
Mason Clark
>water cooling >32GB ram >1TB SSD
Robert Fisher
wow this kid needs to be shot, how can this be a acceptable behavior
Jason Ross
Absolute BS. I bought a new iMac last year and it had a single dead pixel, I took it back and was given a new machine.
Adrian Powell
do you need a hug, user? you must feel terrible with all that buyer's remorse
Jason Evans
I tried to price out a build that included the components you'd get when buying an iMac.
You can't just build a $1200 PC without a monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc and say "look, it's superior". Half the reason the iMac is used is because of the screen.
And the watercooling is so I can put a small OC on the 8700k, and a watercooling kit doesn't account for much of the difference in the PC being $350 more than the iMac. It's just a hypothetical build, I'd much prefer the iMac at this point.
Noah Green
I had a $5k dell precision dual xeon at the office. The nufag supervisor had a $5k apple fagproduct. I used all kinds of equipment on my machine, programming linux drivers, building peripherals e.t.c., machine was strong when I left. His ifag had a speaker/sound crysis. It had to be carefully shipped 800 km away. A dell vostro breaks in the lab. 500$ machine. Call dell, they send a technician the next day, repairs the laptop, leaves. I will never live the ifag experience.
Dominic Thompson
A 1TB fusion drive is not the equivalent to a 1TB SSD, lol. Not even close.
Parker Smith
2 rupees have been deposited in your loo Sanjay.
Blake Morris
>I tried to price out a build that included the components you'd get when buying an iMac. Don't forget the $2000 liquid nitrogen cooling system so you don't set your house on fire.
Jackson Long
tb fusion tb SSD = $250
Mactoddler brainlets everyone. See pic.
Ethan Moore
>fusion Nucular
Aaron Morgan
It's literally the same panel...
Ian Sanchez
I'm aware they run hot. That's why I don't know why people are meming the liquid cooling ...
Matthew Rivera
8bit display.
Lucas Bell
>1tb fusion L M A O
Adrian Torres
For photo editing, this is the only weak spot I see for the iMac. Even then, I could swap the fusion for an SSD
>>mediocre graphics, but who cares, still better than integrated Damage control.
>>cozy OS Neck yourself homosexual.
Also you forgot: >thermal throttling Cuts 70% performance to the already shit tier CPU. Hope you have home owner's fire insurance.
>shit tier dead pixel warranty Enjoy 15 dead pixels before they even begin to consider a replacement.
Austin Baker
Not surprising since apple only sources the cheapest shit tier components they can get their hands on.
How brain dead do mactoddlers have to be to think that 30% profit margin is somehow a good thing for them as a consumer?
Brody Russell
You autist, I compared an i7-8700 build with INTEGRATED graphics to an iMac that at least has a discrete card that is 3-4x stronger than the 8700k's intel 620 integrated graphics
The only strong argument against the iMac I've seen is the fusion vs SSD, and even then I can swap it out.
Elijah Lewis
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Joseph Jones
>i7-8700 build The ABSOLUTE state of mactoddler brainlets.
Kayden King
Vs
Benjamin Cooper
>max ram 16gb
That's how I know you're trolling.
Chase Barnes
>macshit is good
That's how I know you're trolling.
Adrian Watson
Their IPS panels are shit and they have mostly laptop tier components that overheat.
please stop with this same damn thread. apple products are grossly overpriced for what they are. period. end of story.
Sebastian Sullivan
The mac build you just fucking took a picture of or saved one literally circles "max ram = 16GB"
You used the 21 inch model which nobody is talking about and now you're in damage control.
I have no doubt that if I build a computer instead of getting the iMac I can get at least 64GB of Ram in there, that was never in question...
L2control variables
Parker Lewis
/thread
Julian Scott
I'm sorry, I think ur getting me confused with someone else.
This is the 27' Australian model with 8gb ram This is an Australian build I assembled with a better CPU, gpu and 8gb ram
This was not posted by me.
Carson Gray
>What are so bad about these >* is My ex works on those ( graphic designer ). First thing she does when she comes to work is to try to create a "dark room". Otherwise she can see what people who sit beside her browse on the internet. She made me a photo. It's a really expensive mirror. Just saying.
You're comparing a refurbished mac with an i5 to a brand new pc with an i7 that's twice as fast.
Isaac Baker
>refurbished
Levi Reyes
>browses a website and copy and pastes the entire URL >"lmao guys he used HTTPS COLON SLASH SLASH"
Gabriel Ward
buy a ryzen 1700 if you doing productivity, its slightly faster than the 8700k and a fuckton cheaper plus comes with cooler and mobos are cheaper. dont say building a pc is more expensive if you dont really know how to build one for your situation. dumb shit like this is why intel and nvidia have low key monopolies and why the shit is more expensive than it should be in the first place. basically fuck the majority of pc gamers.
Kayden Rogers
>hay guise! look how cheap this refurb fruit toy that some fag jizzed all over and returned is! >why would anyone buy a BRAND NEW PC over this?
Jordan Lewis
Can op be quiet and stop confusing peoples posts now?
Ryan Sanders
Senpai, I don't think LR utilizes multithreads, which is why I'm not beating myself over i7 vs i5 vs ryzen.
At any rate, the 8700k performs better in both LR and PS
The hardware isn't exceptional, but you still pay out the ass for it.
Isaac Collins
What are you talking about? I haven't bought shit, I'm just trying to get a good deal.
A 2017 refurb with good specs is cheaper than the integrated GPU setup I literally pieced together on pcpartpicker in the OP.
I can't reconcile the shitty prices Australians have to pay with their $18 min wage for working at Burger K- ... sorry, Happy Jacks or whatever the fuck you call it.
Jace Fisher
>I'm just trying to get a good deal. >mac
Found your problem.
Benjamin Watson
Now go cut the pcpartpicker prices by 30% to account for refurb versions of all of that.
Carter Long
If u wanna buy a fucking mac just buy one, just dont pretend you're not paying a big premium for it being an apple product
Jeremiah Torres
It's just as bad with US prices.
Juan Powell
Wrong image
Eli Taylor
>Z270 Pro >1050 Ti >Seasonic
That's being very generous to Applel's Foxconn trash.
Samuel Harris
In the previous one I even had a pcie thunderbolt card but I couldn't be bothered to find an American one.
Noah Hall
it's true
we had like 6 iMacs at school
all of them would smell like burning plastic after a while
Isaac Wilson
FIXED
Jace Brown
When something breaks like the PCU in your Imac you are fucked
Aaron Wood
where's the 5K display?
Easton Walker
I'm probably giving Apple the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not bullshitting on the $2.3k build with only an i7-8700K without a graphics card. Sure, it goes down to $13-1400 if I don't include a monitor or water cooler, mouse keyboard, etc But those all come with the iMac, save for the water cooler, but I'm not using a house-fire like 8700k without at least a water cooler.
I'd say a computer with a 7th gen i5, 40GB ram, and a 5k monitor isn't that bad of a deal for $2k, all for the purposes of photo editing. Sure, it's refurb but it's a 2017 model and is under warranty.
Mason Gomez
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Jose Gutierrez
AFAIK companies can get a special on-site warranty service.
Cameron Evans
The noctua fans are cheaper and allegedly cool better than water
Dominic Jackson
Fucking kek.
Gavin Torres
>talking about housefires >trying to shill iHousefire
Fuck off brainlet.
Joseph King
Everything Apple makes is trash, no exceptions. Any trash, no matter how highly spec'd, is still trash. I do not fancy spending any money on trash.
Jonathan Barnes
You sure love to artificially inflate the prices, don't you?
I don't know anyone drinking eight of those cans per day.
Grayson Torres
If you're going to get a PC that doesn't/can't use much power, just buy something cheap because what's the point in >i5/i7 >32-64GB of RAM Seriously what are you gonna do with that
Gabriel Rogers
You know you're on an Apple shilling thread right?
Hunter White
Why?
Liam Powell
/thread
Dominic Jones
I edit large 50mpix photos. When I want to move a photo from LR, after doing absolute basic things that correcting for the lens profile, I move it to PS to sharpen, edit blown-out skies, remove stray branches, etc.
8GB RAM barely cuts it using PS alone. I MIGHT be able to make due with 16GB using LR and PS, but I'd likely need at least 24GB (so 8 from iMac and 16 from upgrade). Now, if I also have other applications open - research, music, etc, I think having a few GB buffer is much better. The difference between 16GB and 32GB is like $100, a fairly cheap upgrade to ensure that your workflow doesn't stutter.
I've done the LR + PS on a 5th gen i5 and the only thing that really bottlenecked me was 8GB RAM.
Aiden Fisher
Seems a bit expensive just for one specific task
Lincoln Foster
Apple is all about the design, right? Well I don't think computer equipment should be shaped like body parts. I think people who want the sensation that someone is touching them when they are using computers have mental issues.
Landon Sanders
>a fairly cheap upgrade to ensure that your workflow doesn't stutter.
Don't forget the $10,000 sprinker system for your home so that your entire house doesn't catch fire when the iGrill does.
Tyler Brown
Realistically, over one summer I'll have thousands of images to sift through and edit. That takes months as I spend a good amount of time (>1h) on like 5-10% of my photos.
The computer would also be for general use.
I mean, people spend $1500 on a gaming PC that they upgrade every 3-5 years then spend hundreds each year on AAA titles and on random things like upgraded GPU.
Andrew Robinson
Are macfags more power autist than a normal Sup Forums user? This image proves it
>First r*ddit paragraph So it could be done faster without a Mac or cheaper >Second Pretty sure every computer is >Third I mean, people spend $4000 on a iMac that they replace every year then spend hundreds getting Tyrone to cuck them and on random things like dragon dildos. Also who actually buys games and is not a normie let alone hundreds? I honestly don't know anyone that still buys games especially single player games for PC
Owen Walker
same place the imacs 10bit panel is
Ian Jones
MACTODDLERS BTFO
Ian Morales
OP, they are wonderful and YOU should buy one.
Now fuck off to Mac forums. See how easy that was?
Matthew Gomez
Really makes you think...
Thomas Evans
>8 cans monster RIP
Lenovo workstation don't begin used by gamers usually engineer, engineer making more graphic design and need nvidia quadro card plus resistent laptop.
David Gonzalez
OK buy Mac, but LR and PS begin more fast on Windows, I use Mac/Linux but windows is fast on it.
Andrew Morris
>huge bezels and chin >glossy display >can't be used a standalone monitor
Just get a Mac mini when they eventually get upgraded.
