[Virtualacorn-list] 27 inch iMac with SA-VRPC ?

[Roger Darlington]

I see that Apple have released a new version of iMac with 27 inch 
screen and core i7 processor(s).

Before I splash out on either an SA-VRPC or a 27" iMac can any users 
comment about this, and suggest which processor options would provide 
any speed improvements when running SA-VRPC.

Naturally, I would want to run SA-VRPS at the full resolution of the 
screen, which I think is something like 2560 x 1440. And I would want 
it at full colour depth, 24 or 32 bit, whatever.

Bearing in mind the above max resolution stipulation

1) Which processor would provide the greatest RISC OS speed, the dual 
core at up to 3.33GHz, or the quad core at up to 2.8GHz.

2) naturally I would want the graphics speed to equal or better that 
of an Iyonix with Geminus Accelerator.

3) How much memory should I go for? What amount of memory does 
increasing it no longer make VA-RPC run any faster/smoother? In 
practical terms. 16GB to me sounds excessive, would that make SA-VRPC 
faster than say would 8GB, or 4GB?

Graphics performance and graphics speed is of paramount importance to 
me. As is JPEG decoding/displaying speed. (I want no fancy fade 
ins/outs slowing things down by a factor of 10).

Has anyone any knowledge or comments to make on the above please?






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Cheers
Roger
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