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it's so thin it's so pretty

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apple doesn't really get into the performance of the 24-inch m1 imac until

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over halfway down the product page and i get it this is a lifestyle product

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i'm just supposed to be happy it's available in my favorite color but i'm

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not happy as it turns out apple quietly

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crippled the performance of the entry level tier without disclosing it on the

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product page so i'm pretty peeved right now to the point where not even an

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adorable pink computer could cheer me up

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apple designed the new m1 imac to be the first thing that catches your eye when

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you wander into a big box store and spot it amongst a sea of silver and black

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monoliths its own previous generation imax included it's bright cheerful and

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fundamentally different from what you'd expect from a computer or even a

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computer monitor these days the thickness or rather the thinness is

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awe-inspiring and the all-glass front gives the machine an unusual

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flatness with no seams to disrupt the aesthetic

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unfortunately to achieve this apple needed to provide an external power

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brick for the first time ever on the imac and surprisingly it's not as cute

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as the computer itself i mean if the appeal of the machine is supposed to be

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its awe-inspiring thinness and lightness

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i wish it was a bit smaller though the color matching core does make the cable

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run to the adapter itself less intrusive and what's more the optional Ethernet

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adapter also lives here for perfect cable management

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this really is some cool stuff here power and networking both go through the

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braided cable to a megsafest round plug that's keyed so it can only go in the

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right way it's super easy to connect and frankly also really satisfying but it

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kind of raises the question what makes the Ethernet go if you look closely you

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can see a number of contacts on the outer ring of the connector and this is

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where the signals are carried at least from a physical standpoint

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but then logically as far as the imac is concerned it's just an extension of the

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m1 soc's i o so it's not attached to any

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of the usb or Thunderbolt controllers which is both unexpected and fascinating

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there's not too much else for us to say about it other than that whatever

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apple's done here not having to worry about hot plug capabilities probably

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made it simpler since unplugging the Ethernet adapter would also cut power to

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the machine then there's the elephant in the room the bezels

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it seems these white bezels surrounding the display have divided both apple fans

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and haters alike with many pointing out not entirely incorrectly that having

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white around your display can upset the eye's perception of contrast on the

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screen but because liking or hating it is considered a hot take at this time i

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want to take a step back and try to objectively examine the effect that

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apple intended and the effect that it actually has

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apple's stated intention for the 24-inch imac was to make it blend in with its

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surroundings not so much like a chameleon so you don't notice it you

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notice it but you're supposed to notice it in a more organic way and less like

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it's a piece of tech sitting on the table and apple's history of doing

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things like this goes way back with the imac g3 being a notable example

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at that time black bezels hadn't even caught on yet and we were still living

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with beige bezel crts then through the early to mid-2000s

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apple continued to differentiate itself by using a purer white than anyone else

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and then in mid-2007 apple followed the rest of the industry and moved to black

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this arguably was the first time we saw the now iconic black and silver design

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language that apple has used up until now and how long they stuck with it is i

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think a big part of what makes the shift back to lighter colors so jarring but if

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we're being honest it's not as bad as it first appeared to be like yes i saw it

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and immediately went boy that's ugly but

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as Anthony was working on benchmarking the machine he noticed that well he just

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stopped noticing it partly because the slightly off-white

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was blending in with the white wall behind to the point where once he was

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focused on the display itself it almost appeared to be floating and the effect

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can be a little disorienting at first it's certainly easier to focus on a

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display when it's surrounded by a distinct black border but after a while

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neither of us found it distracting and you can just use dark mode if you want

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to make it easier to distinguish so our new take is that coupled with the

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very pastel color of the chin bar the white bezel

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really does make the screen pop and it does pop peak brightness is 500

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nits which is higher than most displays that aren't HDR certified meaning that

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it is plenty bright enough to be readable in a bright sunlit room which

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especially in this yellow color seems to be exactly where apple expected it to

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end up there is some panel uniformity trouble along the edges that's plainly obvious

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especially off axis but the panel is otherwise pretty solid with a four and a

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half k resolution that is very retina at this size you will not be

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making up the individual pixels the speakers meanwhile are

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well what can i say

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they are fantastic they're clear at any

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volume with reasonably boomy bass for something without a sub thanks to the

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large resonance chambers that apple squeezed in behind the display and i

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mean i don't know what else to say about it i shouldn't be that surprised given

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how good the speakers on recent macbooks are but i was still taken aback when i

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fired up some 5.1 content on apple tv plus

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it's not quite the same feel as surround speakers obviously but the spatial audio

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effect was instantly noticeable to the point where apple has managed to give

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the imac a much wider sound stage than you would have ever expected out of

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desktop stereo speakers i mean let alone

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the speakers that are thinner than a usb type a plug and that fire downward into

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the surface of your desk it is truly impressive stuff even if it's not

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fully immersive or room filling in the way that apple likes

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to claim that it is meanwhile we claim to have the comfiest underwear around

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also in a variety of colors ltdstore.com and of course we can't forget about the

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new 1080p webcam jonathan over at our Mac Address channel

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go subscribe if you haven't already by the way did a test for his review and as

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you can see in both his and ours the signal processing that apple is doing

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with their m1 soc does an excellent job

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with this many pixels and that's particularly true compared to the old

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720p webcams that apple used for so

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freaking long goodbye and good riddance

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as for the new peripherals they're a bit of a mixed bag on the one hand the

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colors match perfectly with the imac and they're plenty pleasing to look at but

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on the other fundamentally they're the same as they've always been right down

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to the lightning charging ports in

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sometimes interesting places

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what the fact that it's been stupid for so

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long that the meme is dead that doesn't make it less stupid that

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makes it stupider

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get subscribed by the way because we're going to be investigating how not all

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lightning cables are what they seem to be the new keyboard is the one thing

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that's been genuinely updated it's slightly more rounded than the older

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designs and it features a massive escape key an emoji key that doubles as the

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function key and a dedicated lock key that on the upper end models doubles as

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a touch id sensor that is huge touch id

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hasn't been a thing on the desktop up until now and it is about damn time it

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works great and it can even be used for fast user switching which is a great

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addition for multi-user environments like i don't know families or when

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Anthony and jonathan need to hot-seat at the computer to get their reviews on on

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time hey that sounds great Linus i hear you saying but you spent five minutes

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talking about the design when are you gonna talk about the benchmarks

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well about that the 24-inch imac as it is right now is identical to the macbook

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pro and mac mini in all but form factor and while we will be testing its thermal

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output there's not much point in testing its performance because we know what m1

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is capable of already it's capable of whatever apple allows it to be capable

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of that's where things get a little thorny not only does the base model have

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one fewer graphics core as apple advertises on the product page it also

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has 50 percent as many fans which means

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at least in theory it could be more prone to overheating and thermal

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throttling like the m1 macbook air and thermal throttle it does for CPU

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performance our mozilla firefox compile test has the lower end imac taking a

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minute and a half longer or about seven percent

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blender now has a native m1 version in 2.93 and while rendering with the m1

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isn't a great experience in the first place thanks to having just four

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performance cores our properly coolered unit again manages a seven percent

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performance advantage in the short bmw render and that extends to eight percent

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over the longer classroom render now seven to eight percent that's not an

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earth-shattering difference and over very short tests like cinebench and

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geekbench it didn't even overwhelm the cooler enough to show up and your

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grandmother certainly isn't going to notice it while she's browsing facebook

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but it's not the size of the discrepancy that bothers me it's the poor disclosure

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i mean it's not like apple doesn't know that they saved two dollars on a fan

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so why don't they want you to know what is wrong with letting your customers

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make an informed decision yeah this one's cheaper but it's also slower not

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just GPU but also CPU because we didn't put in another fan

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like they disclosed the lower GPU core count which unsurprisingly contributes

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to lower performance on the 7 GPU core model but interestingly that lower

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performance wasn't as much as we'd expect either

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based on the specs alone the difference should be twelve and a half percent but

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we ended up with more like seven or eight which indicates that either apple

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is actually clocking the course higher to compensate for the missing core

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or there could be some additional optimization that's yet to be done on

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the 8 GPU core model hopefully gaming will help us shed some light on this

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and that's a bit of a mixed bag on the m12

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the way that Intel puts it it's a hundred percent less good than any pc

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but frankly that just smacks of sour grapes at this point because it really does

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depend on the game i mean it's true triple a titles aren't a thing right now

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on m1 but we showed world of warcraft running previously and now that a

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dolphin port exists for m1 it's actually possible to play gamecube games as well

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and at high resolution the 8 core gpui map managed up to 4k res

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with fxaa enabled in games like super mario sunshine and star fox assault with

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headroom to spare although some games like rogue squadron

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3 won't run full speed no matter what you do thanks to all the tricks that

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factor five used to make that game what it is as for the seven GPU core imac we

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couldn't quite do 4k and super mario sunshine running just a hair below 100

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speed so if you want to run that game you're gonna need to drop the resolution

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a little bit or buy the better imac

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moving on to thermals when running a 10-minute cinebench burn-in both imacs

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pushed the performance cores to a blistering 98 degrees peak

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both machines but that's not concerning

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as we've said previously these sensors act more like hot spot temperatures

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because enough heat is going to be dissipated into the soc by the time its

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temperature is taken that it's going to be down around or even below 80 degrees

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with the low end imac hovering around 85 on the hottest soc sensor that is well

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within reason the fans do end up running full tilt to

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maintain that temperature throughout our run but while they're audible on both

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machines they're not whiny there's a whirring and whooshing kind of quality

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to the sound if you get your ear up close but it's difficult to detect from

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a sitting distance surface temperatures also don't get uncomfortably high which is a nice touch

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get it nice touch anyway

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so what do i think about the m1i max well

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it's clear they're not for everybody i mean you can tell from the design the

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screen size and limited i o yes my friends the entry level one is a desktop

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computer with only two Thunderbolt ports and a three and a half millimeter jack

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and the premium one manages just two more usb 3 type cs

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but for who they are for it's tough to see

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many downsides other than maybe needing rosetta to run some of your applications

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and that's only true for now so for home use it's probably going to

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turn a lot of heads and the feature set is going to allow enough everyday folks

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to make these things desirable as for whether you agree with the

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aesthetic or not it's tough to deny that the performance is there thanks to

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apple's m1 soc it's just kind of too bad that it's priced the way it is at 14.99

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for the model with eight GPU cores it's more expensive than an equivalent m1

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macbook pro and yeah the imac's got a bigger screen

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and a bit more i o but the macbook's got a battery so you can take it anywhere

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as for my personal favorite mac the mac mini it offers identical performance

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while costing less than half as much and okay you need to supply your own

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keyboard mouse and display but you can

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get all of that for so much less so please y'all

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don't buy this get the mac mini it has usb type a you can even get it with 10

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gig networking although if there's anything i've learned after all these years making

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tech videos it's that many of you had already decided you were going to buy

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this product before clicking the video anyway and only a small handful of you

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were even gonna make it this far in to the point where i make a product recommendation you know what Anthony

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we need to find a way we need like a time machine so we can go back and plant

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a subliminal message at the beginning of the video telling everyone who clicks it

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that not to buy this that the mac mini is the better choice do you think is there any

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way we could do that we can make it happen

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