so you may know that i use a mac at home not a desktop mind you a laptop i've got
a macbook which until recently really hasn't had any
competition from apple as far as a decent macbook
goes but that's not why we're here today today we're looking at this
the brand new 27-inch imac
this is still Intel based which is
going to put a few people off i know i'm not entirely sure if i would buy one
right now you know maybe it'll uh maybe it'll grow on me who knows
the box is basically unchanged from the past
10 years it's got this kind of trapezoidal design here
with a nice little handle the box has already been opened up by our
warehouse staff we are going to review this on Linus tech tips
so uh without further ado let's pop it
open
yeah it's not not too much fanfare okay so we got these
uh little i don't know kind of like
wheel chocks in this one actually is the nice flush
sitting apple branded power cable and in this one
we've got our accessories box inside of which
we have a magic mouse and a magic
keyboard
and uh not much else there is a little uh this is a cleaning cloth
let's see here yeah nice actually really nice microfiber cleaning cloth
single charging cable for both the uh magic keyboard
and the magic mouse which of course
still goes into the bottom one day maybe they'll do wireless charging
that'd be nice and there probably are some stickers in here
if apple is a creature of habit and
sure enough here they are so that's the accessories
let's move on to the main event here
we've got this nice kind of fabric-y
i'm not sure what this is to be honest it doesn't feel like paper
it's like cotton maybe
helps prevent uh any kind of scuffs or
other damage during shipping which is nice to see and we also have this uh
well it would have been a lot tighter but i actually took it off earlier
because i wanted to see what was underneath and i think you will too when we had our
pro display xdr review we ended up not opting for the nano texture
glass because that would have delayed it by quite a lot but
uh in this case for the first time
an imac is getting that treatment
and it wouldn't have delayed our shipment based on uh the other specs
that we had so why not right good at time as any take a
look at it
there we go yeah look at that
it's kind of uh kind of a weird mix between glossy and matte because like
from this angle i can see reflections but
if i yeah like from this angle i cannot i have a reflection but
yeah except it's not a matte film it's
actually laser etched into the glass so
it's at a nano level i'm not entirely sure what apple means by that but
basically you cannot see the individual little markings which
i think is actually a better effect
just because you don't get that sparkle so much at least i don't think you will
have to turn it on to find out around
back though we've got the usual suspects we've got
headphone jack so it's not a very courageous product i'm sorry
sd card slot uh four usb
i believe 3.1 ports two Thunderbolt
ports uh 10 gigabit Ethernet port this is
upgraded to the 10 gigabit model just get a nas 10 gigabit Ethernet and uh yeah you're
pretty much golden even if you just use wi-fi for internet and 10 gig for your
nas it's still a lot better than the alternatives
and this here is the final peel one thing i've always liked about the imac
is they have these removable RAM bay covers so you don't have to take
anything else apart you just press a little button in there
and this panel just pops right off and
underneath we can see that we have i think that's four slots
with two sticks installed so that's really it for the outside it
again like the box hasn't really been changed since i don't know 2011.
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fact that you just really only need one cable and it just fits flush right in here like this
that's nothing new but i still think it's deep the magic mouse one had an
indicator whenever you turned it on this doesn't have it how
unfortunate magic keyboard is on also doesn't have an led
just a little green bit here i guess that saves battery
hey okay i missed the bong
to use english as the main language press the return key
cool thank you for a matte finish like
there's no fringing or anything like it's it's a little bit of a frosted
effect but it's not that distracting i usually
find like a heavy mat to be really distracting so like i
kind of actually preferred the glossy one weird thing though is that the
webcam cutout obviously doesn't have the nano texture so it just
kind of like sticks out like a sore thumb up here press the escape key
i thought i'd have my fill with that with katana but apparently not
i mean it's an assistive thing so like if you can't
see very well if you if you have vision issues then having the talk about it
talk back is good it's just it's just really annoying when you're just trying
to set up the computer touch a sign in here a bit of wi-fi
there verifying garageband come on apple who cares i'm i'm setting
the system up true town yeah
can't really turn it off from here i don't know why
you're just like hey look at this feature that we have something we complain about every time but it's still
annoying that they haven't fixed that let's put a more vibrant wallpaper on
here and see how the screen looks yeah that's pretty good i don't
use imacs too often so i'm not entirely up to speed on how bright they get i
feel like the macbooks get a little bit brighter i am off axis though so so i've got a
couple little benchmarks downloaded first let's take a look at the system itself
this is the retina 5k 27 inch 2020 we
knew that we've got a 3.6 gigahertz 10 core Intel
core i9 that's the core i9 10 910 i think
16 gigabytes of 2667 megahertz ddr4
and the AMD Radeon pro 5700 xt 16 gig
one terabyte of storage one of the new features of the 27 inch for this
year is the addition of bluetooth 5.0
i don't think apple has any 5.0 devices
aside from the iphone maybe the ipad all right let's throw up
Intel power gadget looks like yup 3.6 looks to be about the
frequency that it would be baseline at currently below that
temperature is 37 degrees i think it's like 21 or 22 in here right now
okay power draw went way up above looks
like 150 almost 145 ish yeah 155 actually
uh temperatures at 85.9 86.9 88
oh temperature's at 96. uh
apple please you were doing so well
98 the run is over
that's what apple's banking on us the CPU is just not going to have to get
that hot for very long
i don't like it all right let's uh let's hit it with a more sustained load and
see what the temperatures look like i don't expect that it's going to be
very happy prime95 can't be opened because apple cannot check it for
malicious software who cares let me do it all right we're
at 160 watts okay dropped out of hyper turbo and now
it's just turbo turbo 145 watts fan is not at maximum speed
hovering around 97 to 98 degrees right now oh no i just dropped down 94 93
huh maybe apple's learned something
still not perfect but uh i'll take that
over cooking it so that's better than i expected it would be but
at the same time i'm still very concerned about the longevity of this machine because this is a brand new
machine and it hasn't sucked any dust into its fans you're not getting uh any kind of
cleaning solution in there without taking the whole thing apart hopefully ARM
fixes this problem ARM is much more efficient architecture
but if they can get this kind of performance level ish in like
i don't know 70 or 80 degrees they could market it as the quietest mac ever
like the fans are running right now and you can hear them
at 70 or 80 degrees the fans wouldn't have been running like this
finally i want to see how this Radeon pro 5700xt
works in the imax enclosure just throw
geekbench at it it's kind of like the the mac benchmark okay so a 16-inch
macbook pro actually got a score that is a fair bit
lower than ours with an external 5700 xt so
i would call that pretty good this performance does come at a cost
a pretty significant one this thing starts at 17.99 us
and that's with a six core processor with
eight gigs of RAM a 256 Gigabyte SSD and a Radeon pro 5300
this configuration with the nano texture glass
it's 500 the 10 core processor it's
another 400 16 gig of ddr4 that's another 200
Radeon pro 5700 xt with 16 gigs of RAM another 500
and another 200 for the one terabyte SSD and another 100
for the 10 gig Ethernet brings us to a brand total of 41.99 us dollars
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