I want to buy an iMac so I can start developing some iPhone Games. I want to sell my custom gaming PC for $1000 on eBay, maybe craigslist. With a budget of $1000 and wanting to use Unity to make iPhone games, what should I get? Should I get a Macbook or stick with a desktop? Here is the specs of my PC and the prices of the parts. Do you think $1000 is reasonable?
Um. No thanks. I have an iPhone. I’m not sure why you think I should lower my sights. My friend just did the exact same thing as I did. He sold his custom gaming PC for the same price and he got an iMac. So I know its possible.
I just checked eBay and CraigsList in my area (I’m thinking about selling my iMac) and looks like my 17" iMac Core Duo is worth around $500-$600 smackers. Something like that should be good enough to get you started with some money to spare.
Keep in mind that if you are going to get Unity 3.0 you’ll need Snow Leopard or Leopard and a lot of iMacs that vintage may only have Tiger installed, so be sure to either budget the upgrade to get one with it already installed.
Well if your friend’s “custom gaming PC” was about the same spec as yours, I’d ask him for the name of the mug he sold it to. I could build that rig brand new for a lot less than a thousand.
Almost anything is possible, but it’ll still come as a big disappointment more often than not if you expect the improbable.
No offence, but that rig is most definitely not worth 1300$.
Firstly, you didn’t specify what card it was, so I’ll assume it’s a GT220 or GT240. That’s not the worst card, but definitely not the best. A GT240 at retail price is maybe 90$ if not less, so maybe put that price down a bit seeing as how 150 is a bit much. The mobo isn’t horrible, but again, 150 isn’t worth it. Maybe about 100 seems better.
Thirdly, the core 2 duo is not a very good processor. Even a core 2 quad isn’t amazing, and that’s what I’m using. 150$ no, 125 seems reasonable. The power supply and RAM seem decent, however the network adapter is most definitely not worth 100$. Not in the least. 50$ max.
Also, nobody uses a CDdrive anymore. DVD is more likely to be used and people would also want a Blu-ray drive as well, however 20$ seems reasonable for a DVD drive, not a CD drive though. The CD player should be a free thing.
Another point here:
The 24" monitor isn’t really worth 300$, especially a Dell. 250$ however, seems much more reasonable and that’s pushing it.
The case, wireless keyboard and mouse seem reasonable, so not bad. The total should be more like 1080 or so, and that's being generous. Just keep that all in mind, but yes 1000 seems reasonable.
$1000 is still enough to get a used iMac… Right? I want to make some iPhone apps. I figured that things might be a little over priced since some of the websites I were looking at to figure costs were a little outdated. My graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce 7950 GT. The reason I priced my monitor at $300 is becuase its HD and comes with the sound bar. Thanks for everyone’s responses.
Or you could get a Mac for $20 odd, just get VMware and run the mac as a virtual machine on your PC. Lots of articles on the web on setting up such a system, will at least get you started.
). Could possibly go for a refurb on that one too…