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Thanks Robert, great explanation. Still trying to figure out options needed to get best performance out of Aperture and Photoshop Elements.
My pleasure Gary, a standard iMac will give you good performance with both, obviously the higher models will give better performance but what are you going to do with the milliseconds you save? Even the base model will be waiting for you 99.99% of the time.
I accept it's nice to have a fast, responsive computer but what I am saying is it's really your budget that counts rather than having to buy a faster computer to run the software you mention. I still run Ps CS5 on my second dual processor Mac mini and I rarely have to wait for anything.
Apple have many tricks up their sleeves, the way they allocate memory, the huge amount of virtual RAM the system allocates (another reason for SSD btw) the way the OS manages the multiple cores of the processors, these things all help to allow relatively modest hardware to run many big applications simultaneously and efficiently.
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Robert.