I replaced my M1 min 16/512 with a 2010 27" iMac and a 2014 27" iMac. The two iMacs cost moderately less than the M1 mini, even after I upgraded both to 32 GB RAM. Looking to sell the M1 mini now. I'm frequently amazed at how well old Apple gear works over the long haul.
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I replaced my M1 min 16/512 with a 2010 27" iMac and a 2014 27" iMac. The two iMacs cost moderately less than the M1 mini, even after I upgraded both to 32 GB RAM. Looking to sell the M1 mini now. I'm frequently amazed at how well old Apple gear works over the long haul.
I have heard great things about Luma. But my point was that hardware capabilities are not being fully utilised due to lack of Pro software. Their are obvious some notable exceptions but they are very few except apps for sketch and digital artists.
Where is LFC2020, our resident Samsung fanboy? I'm sure he would love to express his views on this subject lol
I received my 2012 iMac 27" Core i7 22nm on Feb 2013 after waiting 3 months wait. Turn around would have been shorter if I didnt BTO it. Would have saved nearly $1,000 as well for ~20% more raw performance.
I had 32GB memory days before it arrived.
Your story makes me wish I replaced the Fusion Drive by Feb 2018 so I'd enjoy 2TB SATA SSD until Feb 2023 when I replace it with a base model 2022 iMac Pro M1 Pro 5nm.
Are you using apps that are not Apple silicon-native? Perhaps that may be why your M1 experience did not pan out. Also I've noticed that iMacs have a better user experience than an external display.
I've owned/used iMacs, iBooks, Power Mac, Macbook Pros 13", 15" and 16", Macbook Air, Macbook but never a Mac mini.
I am just curious. Is there any other smartphone on the market that has a better HDR display than iPhones' super XDR blah blah display?
Even if they were able to resurrect Steve Jobs and make 10 clones of him, they would never live up to your expectations.
Apple isn't perfect. And that's ok.
They gotta get rid of lighting asap. All this “pro” moniker means nothing with a slow transfer process. USB C is much past due.
I have two main programs that I use. One is Think or Swim from Ameritrade. It has an Intel macOS version which runs poorly because it ships with Intel Java. The solution is to run the Linux version of the software on Apple Silicon Java but setting it up is complicated (I did a video on how to do it). My other main program is Active Trader Pro from Fidelity. It's a Windows program which runs on macOS via Wine. On Apple Silicon, it has to be translated via Rosetta 2. The resulting performance is awful. Their program is built on a platform from the 1990s and they have no indication of providing native Apple Silicon support. It would probably require a complete rewrite. There are complaints daily on their Reddit forum.
I got the mini to try out Apple Silicon. One of the problems with the mini is that I had so many cables going to the it that changing something was a nuisance. The iMac is nice in that you have monitor, speakers, microphones and videocamera all in one. The speakers are better than any PC speakers that I have too.
The 2014 iMac 27 was $500 with i7, 512 GB SSD, 16 GB RAM, 4 GB Video card. MSRP was $3,500. The monitor alone was worth the cost. I found one of these after I bought it for $350 but I couldn't get down to look at it because of a big snowstorm a few weeks ago. The 2010 iMac 27 was $100 with i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD. MSRP was $2,199. The nice thing about that system is that I can also use it as a 27 inch QHD monitor with speakers for other computers. Used iMacs are the best relative bargain right now because the price to performance is highest with that model. The main reasons for this is that they stayed with HDDs the longest and they were generally light on RAM so that the experience got worse and worse with newer operating systems. Can you imagine getting a Fusion drive in 2017 when the MacBook Pros went SSD in 2013?
I run a Windows 10 Virtual Machine on the 2010 for a couple of things that I do that don't run or run well on macOS. I do want to try running Windows 11 ARM on a VM on my M1 Pro laptop when it's better fleshed out. The free option on macOS Intel is VirtualBox. I don't think that there are any free options on Apple Silicon. There is a free beta for VMware but I assume they will charge for that when it is released.
One other thing about the iMac is that you don't have to deal with flickering or monitor resets. I've had these on a variety of systems with 4k monitors including Apple Silicon. There are lots of threads on monitor issues with Apple Silicon on MacRumors. You don't have to worry about getting the right kind of cable, the right cable length or flickering with the iMac.
Not their fault. They cannot out money Apple when buying cutting edge nodes.
Thank you for fleshing out your use case.
macOS support for 2010 has ended in 2020 & 2014 will be done by 2024 so for reasons other that cost why not the 2020 iMac instead?
Or better yet why not a Windows machines instead considering your apps appear to be Windows-native.
As a UX Designer I run both platforms. iPhone 13max pro and just ordered the S22ultra. The iPhone is a clear winner in interface design, notifications, integrations and more. But the there are some exciting new features on android 12 or the ne s22 ultra. Especially around the camera and how the software and AI is cleaning up the 30x and 100x or overall photography.
Samsung's new Galaxy S22 models are some of the fastest Android smartphones ever, but Apple still has the world's fastest mobile processor by a considerable margin.
In a Geekbench 5 benchmark test conducted by PCMag, the Galaxy S22 Ultra with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor achieved a multi-core score of 3,433, compared to 4,647 for the iPhone 13 Pro Max with Apple's A15 Bionic chip. Based on these results, the iPhone 13 Pro Max is around 35% faster than the Galaxy S22 Ultra for CPU performance.
In the United States, all Galaxy S22 models are equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but models sold in Europe use Samsung's Exynos 2200 chip. Geekbench 5 results for the Exynos 2200 models still have multi-core scores in the mid-3,000s, however, so iPhone 13 models maintain a considerable lead in performance.
PCMag also ran Geekbench ML for machine learning performance and the iPhone 13 Pro Max achieved a score of 948, over double that of the Galaxy S22 Ultra, which came in at 448. Apple's A15 chip features a new 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second for machine learning tasks such as on-device Siri processing.
Apple will look to extend its lead in performance later this year with an even faster A16 chip for the iPhone 14 series.
Article Link: iPhone 13 is Significantly Faster Than Samsung's New Galaxy S22 in Benchmarks
Doing a lot of street or nature photography on the side I really feel the S20ultra had better night and color value than the iPhone.
I’m sure the open ecosystem is another benefit for most.
And quite aside from data rate, Lightning is now just making cable admin a total chore.
Not today. But in 5-6 years when the iPhones still scream while the Androids have a hiccup.
I have an i7-10700 with 128 GB of RAM, 5 TB SSD and a decent video card to drive 3 4k monitors. I've done lots of hackintosh experiments as well. I just got these two iMacs to play around with and I found out that I like them. ToS actually runs fine on High Sierra. I couldn't get ATP to run on macOS on these two iMacs at all but I can run it under a Windows Virtual Machine. The thing is that the 2010 is so cheap as to be disposable. I can use the 2014 to screen share into newer Macs if things change on software support or if it becomes reasonable to run Windows virtual machines on Apple Silicon. We're just in a funny place in the transition right now where Apple doesn't have everything available yet and we have companies that make important software dragging their feet on the transition. I get the feeling that Apple will have to remove Rosetta 2 at some point to get software companies to port.
I've played around trying to run these two programs on Windows, M1 mini, 2010 iMac, 2014 iMac and 2021 MacBook Pro and they run best on Windows. I had just hope to be all macOS at some point. As of two days ago, I was running ToS on Windows and ATP in a W10 VM on the 2010 iMac. I run all of my office and personal stuff on the iMacs. I've removed the speakers from the Windows system as I like the speakers in the iMac and any videochat stuff runs on the 2014 iMac.
I was offered a 2017 iMac Pro 18-Core, 2 TB, 64 GB for $1,900. In retrospect I should have taken it but I didn't need all of that CPU and GPU. But it would have solved all of my problems for the next five years. The person selling me said $1,900 or best offer. I talked to him over the phone and he said that it had an i8 Intel processor. He saw the 18 Cores and thought that it was an i8 so he priced it below the 2020 iMac i9. It was an auction house and they didn't know what they had.
There are a lot of us that mainly use the iPhone as a phone too.
I don't really move stuff onto or off of the iPhone via USB-C. I read email, do Notes, Calendar and Reminders but that's all over WiFi. I'd guess that the average person doesn't do a ton of things where they need to transfer 100 GB in a short period of time.
I’m not aware of any “fiasco”. I do have bugs in Monterey, but it’s overall OK.
They’re not bragging that they’re flawless.
I really don’t get this criticism. Apple made a choice not to ship the feature yet, presumably to give it more time to become stable. Now that somehow isn’t good either?