Looking to buy a new intel iMac. What would be money best spent? Also as a sidebar, whats the main benefit of an upgraded graphics card?

Thanks alot,

Nick

sorry, I jacked up the poll...

Get the extra ram... but don't but it from Apple, you can get it much cheaper elsewhere. And don't worry photo editing is a-ok on the 20" display, I worked on two 20" iMacs for a year before upgrading to a Power Mac and a 30" cinema display.

+1

And if I may add, you can always hook up a bigger monitor if you need to.

Tag...I'm in the same boat.

Where is a good place to buy ram for an iMac?

Thanks!

Any where but Apple. You can always check Crucial they are fairly decent pricewise

Thanks. That does save some money. I sure with the iMac came with one 1gb card rather than 2 512mb cards!

Yeah it's kinda silly. What you can always do is buy the iMac with 512mb then sell that stick and buy two new 1GB sticks

I think that is the initial plan. It will come with (2) 512mb cards. I'll buy (2) 1gb cards and pull (1) 512mb card out. Then, when I get some extra money, pick up another 1gb card to replace the remaining 512 card. So, for just over $300 I'll have 3gb or ram instead of paying Apple $750 for 3gb of ram.

Sweet, thanks for the help, guys. I have used crucial before for RAM and they have pretty good prices.

-Nick