to create something that's genuinely new you have to start again and that's very
hard to do so hard in fact that apple is still
working on it so until then they'd like you to please
please buy the new imac anyway even if its future usefulness is going to depend
on third-party app developers besides why would that bother you if you
think about it you're not really paying for a computer you're paying for an
experience one unlike any other experience the experience of buying a
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
improvements over previous models we get an obligatory spec bump allowing it to
be equipped with up to Intel's latest 10th gen 10 core consumer CPU that's
going to make the imac pro sweat a little bit given that even if you kit
that thing out with 18 cores they're going to be older slower ones making the
decision to go imac over imac pro even more appealing 10 gigabit Ethernet is
now available for a reasonable 100 extra making almost the entire mac lineup
capable of high speed backups and working with heavy media projects over a
network connection great job apple but like no really for real and it's still
stuck with eight gigs of ddr4 2666
memory out of the box but it's user upgradable and we get options for up to
eight terabytes of storage and oh yeah there's bluetooth 5.0 support which is a
nice to have even if it's unlikely you'll notice much of a difference given
that airpods pros already work with max running catalina and 2019 imax
reportedly already had the hardware for it without most people noticing anyway
now it's certainly not the most exciting looking machine and i honestly don't
think that apple will have any incentive to make one that is exciting until they
can launch an all-new model running apple silicon but
ignoring the hey bezels are still sexy right aesthetic the improvements over
last gen kind of just keep rolling here it has a
nano texture glass option which is pricey at 500 but in my experience with
it provides a surprisingly effective anti-glare effect without causing major
sparkling like lcd coatings tend to and
finally the webcam and microphone have
been upgraded how much better does this
look and sound and not a moment too soon
the timing for this really couldn't have been better given the way that
telecommuting has increasingly become the norm now it's worth noting that if
you opt for nano texture glass it is gonna stand out a little but not nearly
as much as a notch or a hole punch camera on a smartphone so
i'm gonna give apple a pass here so great machine then right
go buy it today right well maybe
but before you do there's some stuff you should know over the next two years
apple is going to transition its hardware away from Intel x86 which means
that all apple software will run on their own ARM-based chips creatively
dubbed apple silicon this means many things but the most important for now is
that app compatibility is going to be a huge focus going forward so much so that
apple has created two compatibility layers to address it rosetta two and
universal binary two the first of those allows the new ARM chips that are coming
to run existing x86 software the latter
allows a developer to bundle an ARM and
x86 version of their apps in a single package that should be natively
compatible with systems running either architecture kind of like how our water
bottles are natively compatible with your facehole ltdstore.com now you'll
notice that rosetta 2 only goes one way
and that could be a major problem while apple could support universal binary 2
for as long as Intel based macs have official support likely to the end of
2025 or so based on past trends it's actually up to individual app developers
whether or not they want to provide support for it which if you're old
enough to remember the transition away from power pc towards Intel x86 you'll
know means that you're almost definitely going to get inconsistent levels of
support from one app to another and this time around it has the potential to be
even worse because ARM max can run
idevice apps directly developers may be incentivized to develop for that
platform first with your legacy Intel mac as an afterthought all
of this is to say that if what you love about the apple
ecosystem in general and mac in particular is that it just works
the 2020 imac and i mean really any
Intel mac from here on out is practically speaking dead on arrival
you're definitely going to get about two years of the experience that you expect
out of them give or take a year but beyond that it
is a gigantic question mark so instead of just a normal review let's look at
this machine from the perspective of a potential mac buyer and see if we can
make some predictions for how the truly next generation imacs will look
and whether they're worth waiting for first i don't see these massive bezels or the
apple chin bar sticking around for much longer while apple might not adopt all
of the industrial design of its pro display xdr if i was a betting man i'd
put my money on apple's next imac to look a little something like this all
business on the front machined aluminum on the back but with a more traditional
imac style stand while the pro display xdr is rather flat on the back i would
also expect apple to adopt a look more akin to the macbook flattened camford
edges with a subtler curve than the current imax rather bulbous shape oh
speaking of the pro display xdr make sure you get subscribed because we're
finally pitting our fully complete hack pro head-to-head against the new mac pro
and you won't want to miss it moving on i doubt apple will run their shiny new
apple silicon at the same kind of red line that they've been forced to with
Intel machines like our 2020 imac here now they have employed some clever
tricks to improve the experience somewhat like factory under volting with
direct control over vrms custom phantom performance curves and more but at the
end of the day this machine still spikes up to 99 degrees when you fire up an
intensive CPU bound application a state that it can only maintain for a short
while before it drops down to base clock where it mercifully runs at a mere 90ish
degrees this differs from past behavior though which an optimist might say shows
that apple is finally taking the thermals and longevity of their machines
seriously or a cynic might say is probably more
about quietly kneecapping the Intel max to make the upcoming
ARM-based ones look better for my part i wouldn't be surprised if
it's all a little bit of both while we don't have any firm data on
what performance or thermals will look like on apple silicon we need look no
further than the ipad pro to get some hints
that's a tablet with no active cooling whatsoever that can pull off laptop-like
performance and crucially sustain it for
long periods of time finally i doubt that apple is going to settle
for performance that's just as good
our imax 10 core CPU does manage some
decent numbers but it's been clear for a while now that apple's been desperately
trying to squeeze more performance out of Intel's aging 14 nanometer plus plus
plus processors wherever they can
so we can see it here where they allow the thermals to spike in the hope that
the load will be a short one and that the CPU will race back down to idle
this actually works out for them in some scenarios like photoshop and final cut
but it absolutely kills performance in longer running benchmarks like blender
where the core clocks drop way down to base clock the GPU for its part is still
good or as good as a mid-range consumer card with pro slapped onto its name can
be but between apple's experience with building mobile gpus in developing the
low-level metal and metal two apis and in building the afterburner accelerator
card for the mac pro they may have all the tools they need to be
self-sufficient here this one's actually a bit of a wild card but that's still in
the future as of this video
we still can't say exactly what an apple silicon imac will look like which is why
buying any Intel based mac today is going to be a bit of a crap shoot
now i am hoping that apple's ongoing support for these devices stands out
from the rest of the industry kind of like their iphone support does
the issue is that so far they've only made vague commitments like for years to
come how many years remember back when apple transitioned away from power pc
macOS 10's first universal binary format only lasted from 2006 until apple
killed non-Intel support at the os level with snow leopard in
2009 if i was buying a shiny new mac today
i'd want something a little firmer
with that said if i needed to buy a desktop today and
it had to be a mac for whatever reason
this one actually looks pretty good ignoring the well moon logic
pricing for some of the upgrades know what's not moon logic
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