Help! New 27" Imac - Dual Core Or Quad Core For My Needs..., Would the 3.33 Ghz suffice? Options

[uvbnskoold]

Hi there community,

I have asked this question of many other people and forums but no one can give me a straight answer.

I compose music using Logic Studio and all included sounds, VSTs and a lot of different libraries (EW/QL samples) with very little live recording.

I want to upgrade my system (currently using a dual 2.3 Ghz PowerMac G5 with 8 GB of RAM) to one of the new 27" iMacs - definitely going to go 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB HD, but I'm torn as to processor.

I just don't know whether the 3.33 Ghz Dual Core processor will be adequate or I should wait and get one of the Quad Core i7 processors for about $500 more money, but I'd have to wait.

For what I do, will the processor make a huge difference? What I've been told is that processor only matters for audio encoding (which I am not really doing a lot of) or video work/rendering... not really applicable to composing with samples using Logic.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Uvee

[SadPandas]

Hey guys, we have always said since the "should i get X now or wait for Y in a couple of months" to purchase now ONLY if you NEED it otherwise why not wait? The great thing is that you could always purchase now and resell it although that is a hassle for me at least. I am quite happy with my 2 year old Mac Pro and all of my 32bit plugs work fine but when idle the Audio Bridge will crash every now and again.... Sorry, tangent. Anyway, I say you wait for the quad core but the lack of internal drives makes me hesitant to use one for music or video but thats because i am stuck in the 'old' way of thinking that reading and writing to an external isn't as reliable as an internal drive but that could be, like i said, an old wives tale at this point. Does the 27" iMac come with only 1 firewire port? Guess you can always daisy chain those if you needed more. Anyway, hope my .02 cents helped to confuse matters worse, kidding. Like i said at the beginning though, get it when you NEED it.

Viva La Panda!