And Apple has combined that performance with a color-accurate 4.5K Retina display and crammed it all inside an impossibly thin and playfully designed package. In terms of photo and video editing performance, the new iMac is on par with every other M1 Mac, meaning: excellent. Despite this, it's arguably the best starter Mac for anybody who is interested in exploring their creative side. It's a family-friendly Mac that's much more concerned with aesthetic sensibility than Adobe Premiere Pro performance. Maybe I should compare a current top end Raspberry Pi against the brand new iMacs.The new M1 iMac is a sleek, stylish and surprisingly affordable photo and video editing machine.įirst, the elephant in the room: the redesigned 24-inch iMac was not created for photographers and video editors. I can buy comparable parts in much smaller form factors at much lower prices than before. Memory and Storage just aren't improving like they used to. It's not Intel's fault - Intel is doing way better than the other components. Such improvements just haven't happened since. I realize I went from a budget model to a mid-tier model, but holy crap - across the board I got a computer that was many times better despite only being 5 years newer. I'm pretty sure you can get a used 2007 iMac for $100 if you really feel there isn't much improvement.īefore I had the 2007 iMac, I had a 2002 eMac. People do not store as much of their data on their computers anymore.Ī 2007 HDD and a 2020 SSD are also different in terms of speed and reliability. The mid-2020 "6 x 3.3" model you mention here gets a Geekbench 5 score of 6100. Note that a mid-2009 iMac with "2 x 2.3" gets a Geekbench 5 score of 547. It seems you are equating GHz to performance. Moore's Law says that today's iMac should be 2^(14/2) = 128x better, so yeah, by that metric, the compute hasn't improved by anywhere near as much as it should, but really? We want to blame Intel for how minor the improvements have been?
I think people give Intel too much crap for the limited improvement. It's remarkable how little Macs have improved over the last 14 years, because I bought that computer in 2007. I bought an iMac with 6 GB of RAM, 1 TB of storage, and 2 cores at 2.4 GHz for $2000.
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