Apple, Please Keep Doing This! – iMac 2019 Review #Helpful Post

I'm gonna be upfront with you guys when

I saw that Apple had updated the iMac I

didn't really think about it twice I

mean it's just a refresh and they didn't

make a bunch of noise about it but then

I saw that it came with up to a core I

nine eight core processor at that point

I had all kinds of questions like how

the heck are they gonna cool one of

these in a standard iMac does this make

the iMac Pro basically pointless and how

quickly can we get one well let's answer

that last one first it takes about a

week as for the rest of it stay tuned

because we are about to find out the hot

docs uses the Ergo Docs design which

keeps you comfortable typing away for

long periods of time and features qmk

firmware and hot swappable key switches

check it out at the link below

within its iconic trapezoidal box and

sandwiched between three pieces of

protective styrofoam we find the beast

with its glossy 27-inch 5k Retina

display front and center I've got a

praise Apple for their multiple layers

of protection to ensure that your iMac

reaches your desk without any scratches

or scuffs but I do think that there's

room to improve on the amount of non

recyclable material that they use for

packing the same can also be said for

the i/o it's mostly great actually we've

got two Thunderbolt three ports and more

than enough type-a super speed USB s for

the average desktop especially when you

consider that Wi-Fi is integrated and

the magic keyboard and Magic Mouse need

to be charged so infrequently that they

can share a cable but dang it Apple if

we're gonna shower you with praise for

including 10 gig Ethernet on the iMac

Pro and the Mac Mini then you have got

to expect the opposite when you don't do

it it's not even an option here which is

a real shame because you're stuck either

accepting 2005 level network speeds or

shelling out several hundred dollars for

a Thunderbolt 2 10 gig Ethernet adapter

as for the rest of the design

Apple has taken the if it ain't broke

don't fix it approach remaining

fundamentally unchanged since 2009 in

fairness it's somehow still looks pretty

sexy but the bezels and especially the

chin bar are just massive for a modern

machine and we feel like even timeless

designs do need to be refreshed once in

a while that said the 2019 iMac does

have one welcome remnant of that bygone

era

user expansion apples still rocking it

with four easily accessible ddr4 sodium

slots which means unlike Anthony when he

purchased this machine for a review you

can skip the Apple tax and install your

own memory to not only save yourself a

little cash but to push your system RAM

capacity to a staggering 128 gigs that's

double what Apple has available on their

store for about the same price so Apple

I don't want to beg it's not dignified

but I will whatever the next iMac looks

like please don't take this away from us

between this iMac and the Mac Mini

you've shown us that there are still

some people there who care it's not too

late to change enough about the future

though let's take a look at the machine

we had today

so we kidded ours with the top-end kora

999 hundred K F and that F means that it

omits the Intel HD graphics that

typically come along for the ride in

consumer chips in favor of slightly

improved thermals unfortunately while

our unit also has dedicated graphics we

opted for the Radeon Pro rx5 ATX

figuring that if we needed a lot more

horsepower we could get more with our

Radeon seven in an external enclosure no

onboard GPU means that Intel's Quick

Sync video encoding is out of the

question here it's a good thing that

Apple is big on OpenCL so onto our

performance analysis then we're gonna

focus mainly on the IMAX CPU performance

with emphasis on how well Apple managed

to cool our beastly eight core

hyper-threaded CPU if they managed it at

all and actually it keeps our core I 9

going over even long workloads with core

temperatures hovering around the low to

mid 92 greem Arc now to be clear that's

higher than what I'd be comfortable with

and that's especially true once there's

some dust in the cooler a couple of

years later but it's actually better

than I expected and if like us you have

concerns about the long-term health of

any machine that's running hot enough to

cook instant noodles you can use a piece

of free software called max fan control

to bump up your fan speed so then at

full our temperatures looked a lot more

sane without our machine becoming

unreasonably loud

but not all of the news here is good or

even necessarily bad some of it's just

kind of weird

while our CPU frequency is constant

which would indicate that we're not

throttling let's just overlay the base

clock on this graph and ooh if we're a

little off there aren't we let's zoom

right in on the first minute of the

temperature and CPU speed grass and

that's weird too it's not even thermal

throttling so it kind of smells like a

power limit issue sure enough then if we

look at the package power using Intel's

power gadget we're actually running at

around 80 watts sustained instead of the

95 that they rate this chip for now it's

unclear whether this is a deliberate

measure to protect constrained VRMs or

if it's because of a firmware bug but

what we do know is how it impacts

performance so in some of our tests we

got similar performance to our

comparison 9900 Kay but heavier loads

like Cinebench revealed the 6%

difference that we would expect from

lower clock speeds so it looks like

Apple managed to tame the beast but they

only did it by removing some of its

venom which is sort of cheating we did

find outliers the other way though this

is really interesting

so in this blender render we managed

higher performance than our reference

comparison CPU this one took us a little

while but here's what happened

remember that controversy over

motherboard manufacturers basically

factory overclocking Intel CPUs by

removing some of Intel's recommended

constraints well around that time we

switched to running all of our

benchmarks at Intel recommended turbo

boost settings which is something that

we can't manually control on the iMac so

then it looks like what Apple has done

is played around with the turbo clock

speed dials a little bit provided that

the chip does not exceed their power

limit which actually resulted

a continuous boost clock speed of 3.8

gigahertz in this test as a sanity check

we ran our comparison 9900 K with its

limiter disabled and a beefy cooler and

it performed better still so now you

know which leads us then to the price

it's actually pretty reasonable compared

to building your own comparable desktop

setup with the same features this is

something we've talked about before and

it's happening again if you want that

hardware max were generally expensive so

the question then becomes should you buy

one at 2700 US dollars for the core i9

version you're looking at someone who

needs the hyper thread performance of

the kora 999 hundred K as well as

excellent if not the best multi-threaded

performance 8 course really is a nice

sweet spot and an excellent 5k display

so we're looking at photographers video

editors and other visual media

professionals looks like they kind of

nailed it in fact ironically in some

ways they nailed it a little too hard

because it's actually a better machine

for a lot of those users than the iMac

Pro and that computer is nearly twice

the price so that if you're one of those

people who needs that magic blend of

performance and dorm friendly form

factor you really can't go wrong unless

paying for computers that don't perform

quite as the specs indicate and come

with a mouse that you can't use while

you charge it just straight up rubs you

the wrong way

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