Advice on imac

[derrickgoh]

Have a 2013 imac which is obviously slowing down. Doesnt help that the HDD is not SSD i guess. I dont even have that many start up items, just an antivirus & canon utility.

Am looking at getting a new 27” imac but was wondering about specs. Im a very casual gamer & most of the time i use it for word, excel, safari & a bit of iMovie. I am thinking of getting the lowest end 27” but replacing the HDD with 1TB SSD.

Would that speed things up for my needs (esp mac start up & start up of each software)? Or does the RAM need to be boosted to 16GB as well? I guess faster processor is pointless for my needs. TIA!

 

[metamofia89]

Have a 2013 imac which is obviously slowing down. Doesnt help that the HDD is not SSD i guess. I dont even have that many start up items, just an antivirus & canon utility.

Am looking at getting a new 27” imac but was wondering about specs. Im a very casual gamer & most of the time i use it for word, excel, safari & a bit of iMovie. I am thinking of getting the lowest end 27” but replacing the HDD with 1TB SSD.

Would that speed things up for my needs (esp mac start up & start up of each software)? Or does the RAM need to be boosted to 16GB as well? I guess faster processor is pointless for my needs. TIA!

Never really played any games on my Macbooks before so can't really comment on that.

But from what I know, I think 8GB of RAM should handle word/excel processing very well. As for encoding from iMovie, I think 16GB of RAM would definitely give a huge difference especially if you're exporting 4K videos.

Also, 1TB of SSD is quite overkill. Why not get a 1TB Fusion Drive instead? OSX does a great job managing which files to go to the SSD and HDD components anyway.