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Hello everyone. I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and I'm sorry if its an annoyance but I do need some advice. I purchased my Mac a few weeks ago, wanting to both upgrade my computer.and play Diablo 3 I do always want the best out of my systems and the person who sold me the mac told me it would be fairly easy to upgrade the card.well he was wrong.
He also told me a few days later not to worry about upgrading since the system is already great. I went to a local Mac store and asked about the upgrade and found out it would be close to or above a grand for the part from Apple and the labor. Heres the breakdown: $875 - Card $130 - Labor $15 - Shipping (from apple) Are there any other ways to find this part online cheaper and just hopefully pay for the labor?
I just really dont want to pay a grand just to upgrade my damn video card, and I know within the new year Apple will release a much better fast computer and I'll be mad. I really wish it wasn't such a hard upgrade. Thanks for reading. LOL, sounds fishy to me as I dont know why apple would do this upgrade for you when theyd be much happier selling you a brand new machine with the proper video card in it. Welcome to the world of iMac where you are tied to your graphics card (remember the MXM thing a bit ago where iMac were supposed to be upgradeable? Yea, what ever happened to that!?) and have to upgrade the entire machine to get a better one. I just plonked down $2000 to go from my X1600 20' to the 8800GS 24' because I wanted Spore and CoD4 to look good.
Well I'm totally screwed here. I've given up, and only see myself bringing my machine back to Future Shop and waiting on the new iMacs (which is disappointing since I do love the system right now, but it can be better) Heres the pinch I'm in: Future Shop only offers the system I have, as their most powerful iMac.
24' screen, a new Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2.8GHz, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. Apple offers the 512MB graphic card option with faster features etc etc. Thing is, I can't special order the 'better' system since its only an option from Apple.
I also can't order directly from Apple now because I bought my computer with a Future Shop credit card which allows a 12 month no interest/no money down plan(which works for me financially). I dont have a real credit card and definitely dont have the money to try to pay off $2500 in 21 days without gaining interest from Visa. What do you all suggest I do? Because I'm definitely leaning towards bringing the computer back and just waiting.
I dont want to be in 3rd place with my system when the new iMacs come out. A 256mb graphics card is not something I will want to be proud of. Thanks for reading. Well I'm totally screwed here.
I've given up, and only see myself bringing my machine back to Future Shop and waiting on the new iMacs (which is disappointing since I do love the system right now, but it can be better) Heres the pinch I'm in: Future Shop only offers the system I have, as their most powerful iMac. 24' screen, a new Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2.8GHz, the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory. Apple offers the 512MB graphic card option with faster features etc etc. Thing is, I can't special order the 'better' system since its only an option from Apple. I also can't order directly from Apple now because I bought my computer with a Future Shop credit card which allows a 12 month no interest/no money down plan(which works for me financially). I dont have a real credit card and definitely dont have the money to try to pay off $2500 in 21 days without gaining interest from Visa. What do you all suggest I do?
Because I'm definitely leaning towards bringing the computer back and just waiting. I dont want to be in 3rd place with my system when the new iMacs come out. A 256mb graphics card is not something I will want to be proud of.
Thanks for reading. LOL, sounds fishy to me as I dont know why apple would do this upgrade for you when theyd be much happier selling you a brand new machine with the proper video card in it. Welcome to the world of iMac where you are tied to your graphics card (remember the MXM thing a bit ago where iMac were supposed to be upgradeable? Yea, what ever happened to that!?) and have to upgrade the entire machine to get a better one. I just plonked down $2000 to go from my X1600 20' to the 8800GS 24' because I wanted Spore and CoD4 to look good.