Does anyone have a new 27" iMac?

[Stinky The Clown]

Is it powerful?

What are the toughest apps you run on it?

[NYC_SKP]

1. Yes, will be setting up final cut pro next week...

That's probably the toughest app.

But it's at the office and it'll be awhile before I can provide useful feedback.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Thanks. My work computer is a 2008 Dual 4-core Xeon MacPro. Apple just announced . . . .

. . . . . that MountIn Lion will no longer support anything up to the model immediately before mine. Mine still works fine and doesn't seem at all slow, by clearly the handwriting is on the wall. I'm not sure I need another big workstation honker like this. I suspect an iMac could meet my needs.

I also want to upgrade to a Retina display when they come out, although the display on the top 27" iMac is pretty damned close. I also need to run dual monitors and a 27" Apple Cinema display next to the iMac would be perfect for me.

Again, it just goes back to how the new iMac compares, speed wise, to my Mac Pro.

[NYC_SKP]

3. I haven't been down to the Apple store to check the new MBP retina displays.

But people say that they're unbelievably detailed, sharp, and clear, and that it's hard to imagine needing higher resolution than that.

On a 27" screen I imagine it would just be crazy good!

[REP]

5. They are super awesome

[REP]

4. Yes

Crap, I dunno. PhotoShop CS 5.1 loads in mere seconds now as does iMovie; what used to take hours to load/edit/reformat/save now takes minutes.

I'm not on it now, but I do have the fastest processor available + max memory.

[Stinky The Clown]

6. My MacPro has 2x2.8 GHz Xeon processors and 14 GB of RAM

How would you guess that compares to the current iMac you have?

Are you loading apps from a solid state drive?

[REP]

7. 3.4 Ghz core i7 16GB RAM

Most applications are on the SSD, which is my boot drive