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so you may know that i use a mac at home not a desktop mind you a laptop i've got

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a macbook which until recently really hasn't had any

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competition from apple as far as a decent macbook

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goes but that's not why we're here today today we're looking at this

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the brand new 27-inch imac

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this is still Intel based which is

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going to put a few people off i know i'm not entirely sure if i would buy one

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right now you know maybe it'll uh maybe it'll grow on me who knows

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the box is basically unchanged from the past

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10 years it's got this kind of trapezoidal design here

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with a nice little handle the box has already been opened up by our

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warehouse staff we are going to review this on Linus tech tips

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so uh without further ado let's pop it

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open

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yeah it's not not too much fanfare okay so we got these

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uh little i don't know kind of like

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wheel chocks in this one actually is the nice flush

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sitting apple branded power cable and in this one

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we've got our accessories box inside of which

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we have a magic mouse and a magic

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keyboard

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and uh not much else there is a little uh this is a cleaning cloth

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let's see here yeah nice actually really nice microfiber cleaning cloth

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single charging cable for both the uh magic keyboard

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and the magic mouse which of course

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still goes into the bottom one day maybe they'll do wireless charging

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that'd be nice and there probably are some stickers in here

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if apple is a creature of habit and

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sure enough here they are so that's the accessories

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let's move on to the main event here

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we've got this nice kind of fabric-y

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i'm not sure what this is to be honest it doesn't feel like paper

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it's like cotton maybe

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helps prevent uh any kind of scuffs or

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other damage during shipping which is nice to see and we also have this uh

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well it would have been a lot tighter but i actually took it off earlier

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because i wanted to see what was underneath and i think you will too when we had our

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pro display xdr review we ended up not opting for the nano texture

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glass because that would have delayed it by quite a lot but

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uh in this case for the first time

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an imac is getting that treatment

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and it wouldn't have delayed our shipment based on uh the other specs

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that we had so why not right good at time as any take a

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look at it

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there we go yeah look at that

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it's kind of uh kind of a weird mix between glossy and matte because like

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from this angle i can see reflections but

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if i yeah like from this angle i cannot i have a reflection but

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yeah except it's not a matte film it's

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actually laser etched into the glass so

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it's at a nano level i'm not entirely sure what apple means by that but

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basically you cannot see the individual little markings which

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i think is actually a better effect

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just because you don't get that sparkle so much at least i don't think you will

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have to turn it on to find out around

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back though we've got the usual suspects we've got

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headphone jack so it's not a very courageous product i'm sorry

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sd card slot uh four usb

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i believe 3.1 ports two Thunderbolt

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ports uh 10 gigabit Ethernet port this is

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upgraded to the 10 gigabit model just get a nas 10 gigabit Ethernet and uh yeah you're

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pretty much golden even if you just use wi-fi for internet and 10 gig for your

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nas it's still a lot better than the alternatives

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and this here is the final peel one thing i've always liked about the imac

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is they have these removable RAM bay covers so you don't have to take

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anything else apart you just press a little button in there

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and this panel just pops right off and

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underneath we can see that we have i think that's four slots

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with two sticks installed so that's really it for the outside it

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again like the box hasn't really been changed since i don't know 2011.

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off the co commuter 2 at the link below one thing apple does really well is the

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fact that you just really only need one cable and it just fits flush right in here like this

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that's nothing new but i still think it's deep the magic mouse one had an

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indicator whenever you turned it on this doesn't have it how

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unfortunate magic keyboard is on also doesn't have an led

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just a little green bit here i guess that saves battery

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hey okay i missed the bong

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to use english as the main language press the return key

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cool thank you for a matte finish like

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there's no fringing or anything like it's it's a little bit of a frosted

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effect but it's not that distracting i usually

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find like a heavy mat to be really distracting so like i

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kind of actually preferred the glossy one weird thing though is that the

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webcam cutout obviously doesn't have the nano texture so it just

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kind of like sticks out like a sore thumb up here press the escape key

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i thought i'd have my fill with that with katana but apparently not

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i mean it's an assistive thing so like if you can't

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see very well if you if you have vision issues then having the talk about it

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talk back is good it's just it's just really annoying when you're just trying

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to set up the computer touch a sign in here a bit of wi-fi

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there verifying garageband come on apple who cares i'm i'm setting

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the system up true town yeah

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can't really turn it off from here i don't know why

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you're just like hey look at this feature that we have something we complain about every time but it's still

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annoying that they haven't fixed that let's put a more vibrant wallpaper on

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here and see how the screen looks yeah that's pretty good i don't

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use imacs too often so i'm not entirely up to speed on how bright they get i

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feel like the macbooks get a little bit brighter i am off axis though so so i've got a

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couple little benchmarks downloaded first let's take a look at the system itself

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this is the retina 5k 27 inch 2020 we

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knew that we've got a 3.6 gigahertz 10 core Intel

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core i9 that's the core i9 10 910 i think

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16 gigabytes of 2667 megahertz ddr4

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and the AMD Radeon pro 5700 xt 16 gig

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one terabyte of storage one of the new features of the 27 inch for this

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year is the addition of bluetooth 5.0

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i don't think apple has any 5.0 devices

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aside from the iphone maybe the ipad all right let's throw up

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Intel power gadget looks like yup 3.6 looks to be about the

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frequency that it would be baseline at currently below that

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temperature is 37 degrees i think it's like 21 or 22 in here right now

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okay power draw went way up above looks

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like 150 almost 145 ish yeah 155 actually

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uh temperatures at 85.9 86.9 88

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oh temperature's at 96. uh

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apple please you were doing so well

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98 the run is over

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that's what apple's banking on us the CPU is just not going to have to get

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that hot for very long

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i don't like it all right let's uh let's hit it with a more sustained load and

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see what the temperatures look like i don't expect that it's going to be

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very happy prime95 can't be opened because apple cannot check it for

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malicious software who cares let me do it all right we're

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at 160 watts okay dropped out of hyper turbo and now

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it's just turbo turbo 145 watts fan is not at maximum speed

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hovering around 97 to 98 degrees right now oh no i just dropped down 94 93

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huh maybe apple's learned something

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still not perfect but uh i'll take that

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over cooking it so that's better than i expected it would be but

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at the same time i'm still very concerned about the longevity of this machine because this is a brand new

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machine and it hasn't sucked any dust into its fans you're not getting uh any kind of

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cleaning solution in there without taking the whole thing apart hopefully ARM

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fixes this problem ARM is much more efficient architecture

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but if they can get this kind of performance level ish in like

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i don't know 70 or 80 degrees they could market it as the quietest mac ever

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like the fans are running right now and you can hear them

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at 70 or 80 degrees the fans wouldn't have been running like this

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finally i want to see how this Radeon pro 5700xt

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works in the imax enclosure just throw

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geekbench at it it's kind of like the the mac benchmark okay so a 16-inch

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macbook pro actually got a score that is a fair bit

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lower than ours with an external 5700 xt so

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i would call that pretty good this performance does come at a cost

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a pretty significant one this thing starts at 17.99 us

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and that's with a six core processor with

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eight gigs of RAM a 256 Gigabyte SSD and a Radeon pro 5300

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this configuration with the nano texture glass

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it's 500 the 10 core processor it's

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another 400 16 gig of ddr4 that's another 200

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Radeon pro 5700 xt with 16 gigs of RAM another 500

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and another 200 for the one terabyte SSD and another 100

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for the 10 gig Ethernet brings us to a brand total of 41.99 us dollars

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i can't recommend that but i can recommend you check out the full review

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