Base model iMac is pretty good value imo. 16GB ram and the 8 core M4 has the same number of performance cores as the 10 core model, so no reason to pay more going up to the next tier.
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New Base M4 iMac Comes With 16GB of Unified Memory
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Yup. External hard drives are the way to go. I understand how some people might want a large internal drive in a laptop, but not a desktop.
It really depends on if you keep your photo library and other large files like videos on it or not. My work Mac only has about 100GB used. there just are not that many large local files. Not everyone needs to store large amounts of data.
Both my intel based 2019 16” MBP and 2020 iMac have 64GB. Thinking of upgrading the iMac with more.
I’m trying to figure out your point?
Very happy to see the base RAM is now 16GB without any increase in price. Should be the same for all the new Macs going forward.
Hmmm. More typical M1 Pro result:
Still great, though. And that isn't even the M4 Pro.
FI. NA. LYYYYYYYYYY.
It’s about time.
Apple Silicon is fantastic, hardware design across Apple is fantastic, Apple intelligence is exciting, but this has been long overdue.
The fact that base price now includes 16GB, and this means more common sales on base models already has it, is wonderful. Nothing worse than finding a good deal on a base model MBA…… with only 8 GB of RAM…… which simply isn’t enough.
Finally.
It’s about time.
Apple Silicon is fantastic, hardware design across Apple is fantastic, Apple intelligence is exciting, but this has been long overdue.
The fact that base price now includes 16GB, and this means more common sales on base models already has it, is wonderful. Nothing worse than finding a good deal on a base model MBA…… with only 8 GB of RAM…… which simply isn’t enough.
Finally.
But kind of the point is that all of the people who got duped into buying 8GB Pro laptops are still stuck with it. But this move makes clear Apple has known for a long time that 8GB was insufficient for any type of lifespan on the systems.
You should have worded your post differently if that was the point you wanted to make. I've long been a proponent of 16 GB base, glad it will be that case on all new laptops purchased now.
Heads up for users of Adobe apps - fairly easy to get to yellow memory pressure even with 32GB memory:
Honestly, that looks more like either a memory leak, or rather high-end use.
It looks like it, doesn’t it? But actually doing some fairly simple edits on a 180 mp photo (on an M4 iMac), which is larger than most photos but isn’t exactly extreme. The same editing on my Intel iMac uses about half the amount of memory. Both machines have 32GB ram.
This is consistent with my previous observations that Adobe apps tend to be memory hogs on Apple Silicon, and appears to be because they consume a large amount of the unified memory for their graphical acceleration function.
I mean… I'd say that is rather high-end. Even the Canon EOS R5 only has 45 MP.
That is indeed interesting. (Does the Intel iMac have a dedicated GPU?)
But if that's why, it sounds like Adobe needs to take more advantage of zero-allocation copying between CPU and GPU.