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to create something that's genuinely new you have to start again and that's very

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hard to do so hard in fact that apple is still

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working on it so until then they'd like you to please

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please buy the new imac anyway even if its future usefulness is going to depend

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on third-party app developers besides why would that bother you if you

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think about it you're not really paying for a computer you're paying for an

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experience one unlike any other experience the experience of buying a

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brand new machine that's dead on arrival

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okay but wait this year's imac sports a surprising number of true meaningful

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improvements over previous models we get an obligatory spec bump allowing it to

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be equipped with up to Intel's latest 10th gen 10 core consumer CPU that's

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going to make the imac pro sweat a little bit given that even if you kit

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that thing out with 18 cores they're going to be older slower ones making the

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decision to go imac over imac pro even more appealing 10 gigabit Ethernet is

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now available for a reasonable 100 extra making almost the entire mac lineup

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capable of high speed backups and working with heavy media projects over a

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network connection great job apple but like no really for real and it's still

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stuck with eight gigs of ddr4 2666

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memory out of the box but it's user upgradable and we get options for up to

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eight terabytes of storage and oh yeah there's bluetooth 5.0 support which is a

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nice to have even if it's unlikely you'll notice much of a difference given

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that airpods pros already work with max running catalina and 2019 imax

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reportedly already had the hardware for it without most people noticing anyway

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now it's certainly not the most exciting looking machine and i honestly don't

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think that apple will have any incentive to make one that is exciting until they

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can launch an all-new model running apple silicon but

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ignoring the hey bezels are still sexy right aesthetic the improvements over

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last gen kind of just keep rolling here it has a

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nano texture glass option which is pricey at 500 but in my experience with

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it provides a surprisingly effective anti-glare effect without causing major

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sparkling like lcd coatings tend to and

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finally the webcam and microphone have

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been upgraded how much better does this

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look and sound and not a moment too soon

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the timing for this really couldn't have been better given the way that

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telecommuting has increasingly become the norm now it's worth noting that if

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you opt for nano texture glass it is gonna stand out a little but not nearly

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as much as a notch or a hole punch camera on a smartphone so

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i'm gonna give apple a pass here so great machine then right

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go buy it today right well maybe

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but before you do there's some stuff you should know over the next two years

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apple is going to transition its hardware away from Intel x86 which means

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that all apple software will run on their own ARM-based chips creatively

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dubbed apple silicon this means many things but the most important for now is

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that app compatibility is going to be a huge focus going forward so much so that

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apple has created two compatibility layers to address it rosetta two and

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universal binary two the first of those allows the new ARM chips that are coming

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to run existing x86 software the latter

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allows a developer to bundle an ARM and

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x86 version of their apps in a single package that should be natively

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compatible with systems running either architecture kind of like how our water

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bottles are natively compatible with your facehole ltdstore.com now you'll

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notice that rosetta 2 only goes one way

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and that could be a major problem while apple could support universal binary 2

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for as long as Intel based macs have official support likely to the end of

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2025 or so based on past trends it's actually up to individual app developers

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whether or not they want to provide support for it which if you're old

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enough to remember the transition away from power pc towards Intel x86 you'll

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know means that you're almost definitely going to get inconsistent levels of

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support from one app to another and this time around it has the potential to be

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even worse because ARM max can run

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idevice apps directly developers may be incentivized to develop for that

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platform first with your legacy Intel mac as an afterthought all

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of this is to say that if what you love about the apple

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ecosystem in general and mac in particular is that it just works

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the 2020 imac and i mean really any

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Intel mac from here on out is practically speaking dead on arrival

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you're definitely going to get about two years of the experience that you expect

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out of them give or take a year but beyond that it

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is a gigantic question mark so instead of just a normal review let's look at

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this machine from the perspective of a potential mac buyer and see if we can

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make some predictions for how the truly next generation imacs will look

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and whether they're worth waiting for first i don't see these massive bezels or the

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apple chin bar sticking around for much longer while apple might not adopt all

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of the industrial design of its pro display xdr if i was a betting man i'd

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put my money on apple's next imac to look a little something like this all

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business on the front machined aluminum on the back but with a more traditional

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imac style stand while the pro display xdr is rather flat on the back i would

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also expect apple to adopt a look more akin to the macbook flattened camford

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edges with a subtler curve than the current imax rather bulbous shape oh

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speaking of the pro display xdr make sure you get subscribed because we're

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finally pitting our fully complete hack pro head-to-head against the new mac pro

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and you won't want to miss it moving on i doubt apple will run their shiny new

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apple silicon at the same kind of red line that they've been forced to with

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Intel machines like our 2020 imac here now they have employed some clever

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tricks to improve the experience somewhat like factory under volting with

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direct control over vrms custom phantom performance curves and more but at the

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end of the day this machine still spikes up to 99 degrees when you fire up an

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intensive CPU bound application a state that it can only maintain for a short

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while before it drops down to base clock where it mercifully runs at a mere 90ish

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degrees this differs from past behavior though which an optimist might say shows

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that apple is finally taking the thermals and longevity of their machines

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seriously or a cynic might say is probably more

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about quietly kneecapping the Intel max to make the upcoming

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ARM-based ones look better for my part i wouldn't be surprised if

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it's all a little bit of both while we don't have any firm data on

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what performance or thermals will look like on apple silicon we need look no

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further than the ipad pro to get some hints

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that's a tablet with no active cooling whatsoever that can pull off laptop-like

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performance and crucially sustain it for

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long periods of time finally i doubt that apple is going to settle

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for performance that's just as good

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our imax 10 core CPU does manage some

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decent numbers but it's been clear for a while now that apple's been desperately

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trying to squeeze more performance out of Intel's aging 14 nanometer plus plus

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plus processors wherever they can

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so we can see it here where they allow the thermals to spike in the hope that

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the load will be a short one and that the CPU will race back down to idle

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this actually works out for them in some scenarios like photoshop and final cut

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but it absolutely kills performance in longer running benchmarks like blender

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where the core clocks drop way down to base clock the GPU for its part is still

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good or as good as a mid-range consumer card with pro slapped onto its name can

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be but between apple's experience with building mobile gpus in developing the

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low-level metal and metal two apis and in building the afterburner accelerator

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card for the mac pro they may have all the tools they need to be

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self-sufficient here this one's actually a bit of a wild card but that's still in

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the future as of this video

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we still can't say exactly what an apple silicon imac will look like which is why

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buying any Intel based mac today is going to be a bit of a crap shoot

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now i am hoping that apple's ongoing support for these devices stands out

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from the rest of the industry kind of like their iphone support does

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the issue is that so far they've only made vague commitments like for years to

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come how many years remember back when apple transitioned away from power pc

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macOS 10's first universal binary format only lasted from 2006 until apple

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killed non-Intel support at the os level with snow leopard in

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2009 if i was buying a shiny new mac today

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i'd want something a little firmer

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with that said if i needed to buy a desktop today and

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it had to be a mac for whatever reason

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this one actually looks pretty good ignoring the well moon logic

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thanks for watching guys go check out our video on apple silicon for more info

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on this whole debacle if you well want to hear more

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i'll see you over there do i have a beard in that one

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you do oh okay i was going to promise clean-shaven Linus but apparently not