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ARM only provides the instruction set. The performance kudos goes to Apple engineering.
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M1 iMac is Up to 56% Faster Than Prior-Generation High-End 21.5-Inch iMac
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ARM only provides the instruction set. The performance kudos goes to Apple engineering.
A direct comparison to the product its replacing is the best comparison possible, in my opinion. And the 21.5 iMac was last refreshed in 2019. Also worth mentioning that the M1 is essentially a mobile chip. It's the equivalent of the Intel U series chips.
That's very well-written, but is the entire page a joke or is this a real product? $500 for a dbrand skin?!
I doubt that they will add more low performance efficiency cores. They have about 10% of the power of the performance cores and are designed to process low priority background tasks. Adding more would probably have no perceivable impact on overall performance. Adding performance cores on the other hand, which is what we expect in the next MBPs and larger iMac will have a huge difference.
You haven't heard of any confirmation of SSD usage and wear issues? Did you miss this 100+ page thread???? https://forums.macrumors.com/thread....2284893/page-104?post=29874488#post-29874488
The usage issue is real and measurable by multiple tools. Whether this will lead to catastrophic SSD failure within a couple of years is, as yet, unconfirmed, because we don't know the TBW specs of the SSDs that Apple is using, but there is real concern about the possibility.
wrong. for the Pro out there that use their computers for regular works (lower, accountants writers marketing, sales, managers, academics, etc) those are pros to.... what you mean by pros is the people whose professions need powerful computers...
Apparently its real, see
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I am probably older than you. I have been through MANY Apple CPU transitions, both family progression and architecture switches
1st: the 030 series 32bit “X series”
2nd: 040 series Motorola “Quadra”
3rd: PPC 601/603/604
4th: G3
5th: G4
6th: G5
7th: Intel Core
8th: Intel Core i
And after over 8 months, selling exactly the same chip, at the same speed, in just a few more models, is kind of unprecedented. No speed improvement at all. No architecture improvement at all.
No. That’s identical to what we have now. I didn’t buy the last iMac and won’t buy the next one if it still has the chin.
Not true. I have been asking for and waiting for a redesigned iMacs for years. You are making a totally unjustified assumption with absolutely no evidence.
If I don’t like the redesigned 27” version I will sadly have to buy something else instead.
Might as well get one now if you like iMacs and don’t want to pay over $2000 for more speed. Apple keeps the low end chugging along with mostly insignificant speed bumps on all its products. I can still see this iMac running an M1 for three or four years before a more significant bump occurs. They will probably change nothing on the motherboard except the firmware that tells it to run overclocked.
I am a bit of an AMD fan and run a Ryzen 5 3600 on my hackintosh. Just remember that the AMD chips will have much higher power draw and run far hotter than the M1. Even my chip, which takes less power than those Ryzen 7 models, requires a reasonably sized HSF and even with a high-end aftermarket cooler will run between 35-80C.
I believe AMD rate the 5800X as a 105W chip, whilst the M1 draws 7-15W?
I can't wait until some tech blogger starts complaining about the "foot" (stand) or the "ears" (side bezels) or the "tail" (power cord) so people can all start suddenly fixating on that.
Face it: the word "chin" wasn't in your vocabulary of computer design terms until you all started reading it on the internet and were told it was bad.
Face it: the word "chin" wasn't in your vocabulary of computer design terms until you all started reading it on the internet and were told it was bad.
I wouldn’t drop that much dough at once. If I go iMac I’d just replace my old iPad with another basic iPad most likely since it would basically only be used when traveling.
"And after over 8 months, selling exactly the same chip, at the same speed, in just a few more models, is kind of unprecedented."
Over 8 months? Let's see... I ordered my M1 MBA on launch day and received it on Dec 3rd, 2020. M1 iMacs are in the process of being delivered right now. That's a little over six months. Why the need to exaggerate? Yes, you probably are older than me.
Tim Cook said the transition would take two years. Allegedly M2 CPUs are in the process of being fabbed at TSMC, which I expect will take 2-3 months. You may not be aware the M1 is Apple's first soc CPU. No doubt in my mind there will be large screen iMacs using the M2 delivered later this year and will offer a substantial increase in performance over the entry level M1 iMac.
If you don't find that amazing, you can always contact Johny Srouji at Apple and give him a piece of your mind.