Setup of my beautiful new iMac (blue, 16 GB, 1 TB) was quick and trouble-free, using a Samsung T5 clone of my old machine. The dead-silence during normal operation is downright eerie. My old machine (2013 21.5", 3.1 GHz i7, 16 GB, 1 TB Fusion drive) must have been laying down a low-level blanket of white noise all the time that I didn't even realize was there.
Anyway, before I packed up the old machine, I hastily benchmarked just a few real-world tasks so I could then compare with the new machine.
1) Compress a ~2.5G folder with a lot of files:
old iMac: 1m 13s
new iMac: 46s
37% reduction. I confessed I expected a bigger speedup here, but still good.
2) Transcode a 2 1/2 hr standard def movie, using native Handbrake beta:
old iMac: 9m 16s
new iMac 5m 30s
41% reduction, also good. Nice workout for the fans, which are not obnoxiously loud
3) Upscale 1080p image by 200%, using Pixelmator Pro "ML Super Resolution"
old iMac: 2m 9s
new iMac: 4s
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Anyway, before I packed up the old machine, I hastily benchmarked just a few real-world tasks so I could then compare with the new machine.
1) Compress a ~2.5G folder with a lot of files:
old iMac: 1m 13s
new iMac: 46s
37% reduction. I confessed I expected a bigger speedup here, but still good.
2) Transcode a 2 1/2 hr standard def movie, using native Handbrake beta:
old iMac: 9m 16s
new iMac 5m 30s
41% reduction, also good. Nice workout for the fans, which are not obnoxiously loud
3) Upscale 1080p image by 200%, using Pixelmator Pro "ML Super Resolution"
old iMac: 2m 9s
new iMac: 4s
