27-Inch iMac Core i7 With SSD Is Fastest Mac Ever

[ARobinson]

3.7 GHz?? What? Not a processor that Apple ships I assume...?

 

[barrym]

Up to THIRTEEN times faster than last white iMac model

The video is very impressive -- mine opens 44 apps in a blistering 25 seconds, and lets me play music & type without a glitch while they open -- however the comparisons are much more fun when you put it next to a 2006-era white iMac (the last one before they switched to glossy screens).

http://yrrab.com/reviews/iMac/

In general, for my $3k I got an average of 4x speedup; however some Lightroom operations (such as Web Preview) are an order of magnitude quicker.

And with 12GB RAM it *never* swaps...

Barry.

 

[arogge]

If that's the fastest Mac ever, it's time to get a new Xeon tower with SAS and SATA SSD support.

 

[Mac2012]

iMac would still win on non-parallel tasks. It has a newer generation CPU +chipset with higher clockspeed. Not to mention Mac Pro's lack of SATA III. So iMac will provide much faster SSD results as long as the SSD used is appropriate, which in this case is an Apple SSD so it isn't though.

That's what I was saying to myself reading this guys reply like "my brothers going to beat up your brother" he he... some funny people on this forum.
The new iMacs scream man. You don't need a Mac Pro anymore I'm sorry, and when Apple releases a 6 Core model. look out! If you have a video post suite fine, get a MP but for everything else, iMac works well and with TB, it's even better.

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Quite the usual - MR is misleading people. It's only the fastest Mac MacWorld has tested. That does not mean that it's the fastest Mac that has ever been manufactured, especially when considering all aspects.

2.93GHz 12-core Mac Pro with 3 SSDs in RAID 0, NVIDIA Quadro 4000, 96GB RAM etc. would bash this iMac in everything else besides single-threaded app performance.

For roughly 10 grand... IT BETTER buddy!
Better take the trash out too!

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For an alternate perspective, let's check in with Barefeats.com.

Oops, looks like the 6-core 2010 Mac Pro beat the "fastest Mac ever" in 3/4 of the "Pro App" tests:

Barefeats Pro Apps Benchmarks

How about gaming? Oops, the 6-core Mac Pro (upgraded to Radeon 5870) won out against the "Fastest Mac Ever" on all 6 games tested.

Barefeats Gaming benchmarks

And here's a hodge-podge of results showing the 6-core Mac Pro beating the "fastest Mac Ever" at Cinebench, Geekbench, Luxmark, Portal, and OpenGL Extensions viewer (in fact, in everything tested).

Barefeats Various Benchmarks

So that was the 6-core Mac Pro. Now imagine the 12 Core.

Yeah... roughly $2000 more, it better! But single threaded tasks, NO!

 

[hankatten]

27" imac 3.4 ssd raid 0/1

Dear MacRumours friends,

I have just entered the MAC world from PC and I am pleased to see the level of expertice and dedication which is shown by you to IMAC.

I hope some of you can help an old man being a beginner at MAC modding.

I would like to upgrade my computer by replacing the present drive (2.5" or 3.5" ?) with two 250 GB SSD running RAID 0/1.

1. I consider 2*250 GB OCZ OCTANE drives.

2.Can the frame of IMAC accomodate two drives ?Is cabling and power for two drives already installed?

3. OCTANE drives being 2.5" ,do I need two adaptors if the present drive is 3.5" ?.

4 There seem to be a problem with fan control after replacing the original (Western Digital type ?). A previous posting on MacRumours mentioned ,that shorting two pins ,marked HDD, on the main board would override fan control and the fan would be silent. Replacing a disc drive with two SD`s presumably running cooler. Should I worry?.

5. The two OCTANES will have no operating system or programs already installed on the present HD.Is there an easy way to copy the full contents
to an optical dicc and install from that. The computer came without LION installation disc.

Thanking you in advance, I hope some of you will help me get along.

Sincerely yours, steen.baaring@gmail.com

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Dear MacRumours friends,

I have just entered the MAC world from PC and I am pleased to see the level of expertice and dedication which is shown by you to IMAC.

I hope some of you can help an old man being a beginner at MAC modding.

I would like to upgrade my computer by replacing the present drive (2.5" or 3.5" ?) with two 250 GB SSD running RAID 0/1.

1. I consider 2*250 GB OCZ OCTANE drives.

2.Can the frame of IMAC accomodate two drives ?Is cabling and power for two drives already installed?

3. OCTANE drives being 2.5" ,do I need two adaptors if the present drive is 3.5" ?.

4 There seem to be a problem with fan control after replacing the original (Western Digital type ?). A previous posting on MacRumours mentioned ,that shorting two pins ,marked HDD, on the main board would override fan control and the fan would be silent. Replacing a disc drive with two SD`s presumably running cooler. Should I worry?.

5. The two OCTANES will have no operating system or programs already installed on the present HD.Is there an easy way to copy the full contents
to an optical dicc and install from that. The computer came without LION installation disc.

Thanking you in advance, I hope some of you will help me get along.

Sincerely yours, steen.baaring@gmail.com

Welcome.

 

[twoodcc]

apple needs to update the mac pro and change this