Originally Posted by
firedept10 I have 2007 iMac that is still rocking along just fine, to give you an idea. The only thing I have done to it is change the hard drive to an SSD and upgrade the RAM. It is used on a daily basis and is just shy of 9 years old. It is on El Capitan the current OS X available.
This is promising to hear. I've had an iPhone and iPad for awhile now and am used to getting 3 or so years at the most before they start to feel woefully out of date.
Originally Posted by
maflynn Take a look a the M395 model, its not that much more then the one you're getting, and it comes with a 2TB Fusion drive, plus a better. You're paying 2199 for the M390 and a 2TB drive. The M395 is a hundred more and as I noted, it already includes the 2TB Fusion drive.
Also consider EDU discounts, you may qualify - that will help drop the price
I did check out that model. I've been trying to talk myself into it. It's honestly pushing my 2K budget quite a bit because after taxes (and I didn't mention this but the trackpad upgrade that I really want) will be close to $2600 when it's all said and done. I wish the higher model included the 4GB of ram on the graphics card instead of 2GB. I'm kind of curious how much difference you'll notice between the 2 graphics cards with only 2GB's on both of them. Sadly no EDU discounts apply for me.
Thank you both for your insights.