I would rather have a machine that could bring out its full power, then have a thin machine that sits on a desk that is weak.When Apple Silicon comes to iMac, people will love the thinness, but will complain when the RAM is not upgradeable
I would rather have a machine that could bring out its full power, then have a thin machine that sits on a desk that is weak.When Apple Silicon comes to iMac, people will love the thinness, but will complain when the RAM is not upgradeable
What are your specs? I have a top of the line 4GHz i7 with Radeon R9 M395 2 GB and 24 GB ram. Fan would run loud when rendering some audio, but during its 3rd and now 4th year of life the fan is on A LOT even though I have had it cleaned twice (and very recently) 🙁.I have a 2015 iMac 27", and never heard the fan come on once in the entire time I've owned it, and that's using Handbrake, Blender, and most Adobe apps.
Intel doesn’t yet support PCIe 3, so yes.the logic board must still be PCIe 3.0!
I think people... like the general public that you see walking into and out of Apple Stores with new systems... will love the systems as they have for years, with half of the people buying Macs having never bought a Mac before. Folks that AREN’T buying Macs will complain when the RAM is not upgradableWhen Apple Silicon comes to iMac, people will love the thinness, but will complain when the RAM is not upgradeable
But is it all the same even with spec out versions? Like with the 16GB 5700XT, also no fan?Kind of a shame about the fan. These are high priced units regardless of config, and the idea that the better cooling fan was too expensive to be included is curious.
not the first time, every mbp with i9 or 8 core has heat issues. apple been setting trends of form over function. the mac pro is the only one in the lineup that has a proper cooling.Yes because Apple likely overlooked this when engineering the new iMacs 🤦♂️
not the first time, every mbp with i9 or 8 core has heat issues. apple been setting trends of form over function. the mac pro is the only one in the lineup that has a proper cooling.
Yes I, also, would like to see if the cooling system is different in those machines with the 5700XT.But is it all the same even with spec out versions? Like with the 16GB 5700XT, also no fan?
I think we will see another iMac27. Why is everyone assuming otherwise as apple said the transition will take some time and that they will support Intel Macs. The transition for iMac27 isn't expected until after a year so the Intel mac will be sold for next 3 years.I’m still using my 27 inch retina 5K iMac that I bought in 2014 and it still is pretty fast
It’s nice that Apple made one last Intel iMac but I am going to hold out for the redesigned iMac with Apple Silicon that will probably come out next year
...BUT, this 2020 iMac 27" is completely obsolete as from the SSD read write test results I have seen online (around the 2K mark only) the logic board must still be PCIe 3.0!
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When it was announced that they would all have SSDs, I rejoiced, but with a 2014 motherboard like that, what guys, IS the point?
I have a 2015 iMac 27", and never heard the fan come on once in the entire time I've owned it, and that's using Handbrake, Blender, and most Adobe apps.
Why is everyone assuming otherwise as apple said the transition will take some time and that they will support Intel Macs.
I have a 2015 iMac 27", and never heard the fan come on once in the entire time I've owned it, and that's using Handbrake, Blender, and most Adobe apps.
probably yeah, intel's hot processor is getting in apple's vision of thin and light computer, i welcome it since it brings longer battery and probably cheaper laptops.Which probably explains why Apple is switching to ARM. Intel processors don’t allow them to make laptops as thin and light as they want, and I can imagine how frustrating it gets.
Intel doesn’t yet support PCIe 3, so yes.
I think people... like the general public that you see walking into and out of Apple Stores with new systems... will love the systems as they have for years, with half of the people buying Macs having never bought a Mac before. Folks that AREN’T buying Macs will complain when the RAM is not upgradable![]()
I’m still using my 27 inch retina 5K iMac that I bought in 2014 and it still is pretty fast
It’s nice that Apple made one last Intel iMac but I am going to hold out for the redesigned iMac with Apple Silicon that will probably come out next year
it seems pretty silly that they didn’t use that’s extra space for more cooling
This is pathetic
If increased cooling was necessary, Apple would have implemented it.
Not to be rude but that is truly absurd. Take any 1080p video file, like a tv show or movie, and re-encode it using an Apple preset, you’ll get an H.264 file and a bunch of fan noise. I have a top of the line Late-2015 5K iMac and it has been flawless, but the quad core runs between 3.6-3.9GHz doing those encodes instead of the 4.0GHz the chip is specc’d at, and it certainly makes a lot of noise doing it. I’ve ran it for 15 days uninterrupted running Handbrake, it can handle it, just not as gracefully as an iMac Pro.I have a 2015 iMac 27", and never heard the fan come on once in the entire time I've owned it, and that's using Handbrake, Blender, and most Adobe apps.
Do we know what CPU microarchitecture these 10th gen actually are? From what I see, the 10th gen are all currently PCIE v3 but the Tiger Lake chips being announced next week by Intel are PCIE v4.0. It's not clear to me that Apple would get access to the newer chips given they're moving to their shipping their own ARM chip based systems from November.The complaint about its case styling is so dumb, as its appearance with that great screen is WHY people buy them, and I know, as I have two older models still going strong, BUT, this 2020 iMac 27" is completely obsolete as from the SSD read write test results I have seen online (around the 2K mark only) the logic board must still be PCIe 3.0!, and ANY recent AMD board at PCIe 4.0 is going to be (and they are!) more than double the read-write speed of this machine. SSDs in AMD machines run over 4200Mb/s write speeds WITHOUT being fitted as raid in a sonnet or something PCIE card. And the benefits of PCIe4.0 extend throughout the motherboards, such that only the Thunderbolt 3 missing from them makes you wish you had a Mac.
My chief reason to upgrade from my old Trashcan 12 core Mac Pro 6,1 is therefore gone, as, if I upgrade my 1Tb SSD (still at a lowly 800Mb/s) I can get to go at 2K as well. And yes, I have checked with OWC, so I may do just that.