Mac vs Windows ( Professional Graphic Designer)

If you are buying the 27”, you can add RAM later at a much lower price. Buy it with the 8 GB and get the additional RAM from a recommended vendor: OWC - www.macsales.com

Hi Yousefkasabji,

A Mac is the best choice for what you need it to do. However, for your needs, get at least 16GB RAM. 8GB won't cut it for your heavy workflow.

Cheers,

Jack

You are welcome, I have added RAM to several 27". They just introduced new color iMacs. I am not yet familiar with those, so if you are thinking of getting one of those, make sure you can still add RAM. All of this applies to the 27" models, which is really what you want as a graphics designer - a larger screen.

Edit: just checked the color specs - they are 24" and do not appear to have user replaceable RAM slots.

If you order a 27" iMac you can upgrade the RAM to 24 GB for less than ⅓ of what Apple charges to upgrade to 16 GB. That is done by adding two 8 GB RAM modules from either Crucial.com or MacSales.com (OWC). Also don't get a Fusion drive as they are "old school" and SSDs are so much faster and long lasting.

The new 24" iMacs must be ordered with the RAM from Apple as it's incorporated into the motherboard and can't be user upgraded.

Can't answer that - mine is a 2017 and I'll stick with that for a while as I can run older OS versions with older apps that won't run on the the new ones (and, at this point, it is not worth spending more than $1,000 to get new app versions since I only use them occasionally).

As for a colored 27" version - no idea unless Apple announces it. And we're not allowed to speculate on future products.....

The 27 inch iMacs that were introduced in Aug 2020 are still the current (Intel) models that are available, and we fellow users cannot speculate about unannounced Apple products.

I am sitting here in front of a 32 inch LG 32UN880-B Ergo 4K UltraFine Non-glare display driven by my new M1 Mac mini and I would be hard-pressed to salivate over any forthcoming iMac. Maybe.