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I have read this site pretty thoroughly and am having a tough struggle with the decision to go ahead and build a Sandy Bridge Hack Pro or just buy a 21.5" iMac i5.
The model I'm considering only has the i5 2400s processor which puts out 2.5 Ghz (yuck) but also comes with 12 gigs of ram installed and applecare extended warranty until may 2014. I have even read on many sites I would be able to replace the processor with any other solid (thinking 2700k) processor if I wanted though the process is quite insane.
All in all, my friend is willing to sell me this for only $450 cash on top of my 2 month old iPad 2 32gb with 3G so we are talking ~1000 to purchase but Geekbench scores for this mac only run just over 7k.
I am fairly certain I can build a monster of a machine for even hundreds less than this (granted no display included but still, those are cheap). Depends on a few things but I live near a Microcenter so the i7 boards with $50 off mobos is enticing. The bluetooth and sleep issues on the Sandy Bridge machines however is a bit troublesome in my book compared to a 100% working guaranteed machine that will hold good resell value for awhile if needed.
Any recommendations before I go one way or another? No turning back once bought in either case. I will pretty much only use this machine to learn and work on iOS development (initially).
Thanks ahead of time!
The model I'm considering only has the i5 2400s processor which puts out 2.5 Ghz (yuck) but also comes with 12 gigs of ram installed and applecare extended warranty until may 2014. I have even read on many sites I would be able to replace the processor with any other solid (thinking 2700k) processor if I wanted though the process is quite insane.
All in all, my friend is willing to sell me this for only $450 cash on top of my 2 month old iPad 2 32gb with 3G so we are talking ~1000 to purchase but Geekbench scores for this mac only run just over 7k.
I am fairly certain I can build a monster of a machine for even hundreds less than this (granted no display included but still, those are cheap). Depends on a few things but I live near a Microcenter so the i7 boards with $50 off mobos is enticing. The bluetooth and sleep issues on the Sandy Bridge machines however is a bit troublesome in my book compared to a 100% working guaranteed machine that will hold good resell value for awhile if needed.
Any recommendations before I go one way or another? No turning back once bought in either case. I will pretty much only use this machine to learn and work on iOS development (initially).
Thanks ahead of time!