#Best mac configuration for photographers software#

#Best mac configuration for photographers software#

Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5 (as with the processor maybe overkill? But photo editing software appears to be making increasing use of the graphics so I thought this might be worthwhile? For example, OnOne Software's minimum requirement is for an OpenGL 2.0 compatible video card with 256 MB dedicated video RAM 1280x720 resolution but their recommended is an OpenGL 4.0 compatible video card with 1GB dedicated video RAM 1920x1080 resolution.

Storage 1TB Fusion Drive (don't need lots of capacity on the iMac as I will store most images on external drives and just keep family / holiday stuff and current projects on the iMac for ready access) Memory 8Gb RAM - the basic option and add my own later (re Apple's cost) Processor 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7 (maybe overkill? But thinking it may give some performance gain with photo editing?) So at the moment after studying various previous posts,В I'm thinking: I spend a lot of time with this and want to get the spec correct so I'd rather go 'over the top' than leave myself short in terms of performance.

So photo editing is the key - I mainly use Lightroom (a lot) and in equal measures - Photoshop CS6 / Nik Collection / OnOne Software. I'm in a fortunate position that I have a decentВ budget and have in mind a specification that would eat this all up but I just wonder if I don't need to spend that muchВ - at the moment it's coming in at UKВЈ2,244 (ouch!). Fair bit of internet use,В home office stuff, that sort of thing. It's heaviest use will be photo editing, maybe the occasional editing of family video stuff but fairly rarely. About to replace my Windows desktop and for various reasons have decided to move across to an iMac 27' and would appreciate a few comments on spec for the machine.