Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This is the only Mac you need”.
It’S been 2 and a half years since I got my hands on the yellow iMac and it was a case of love at first sight, not just for me, but also a million of you too, and now it’s got its first upgrade the M3 chip and, frankly, The iMac is overdue for an upgrade. The M1 is a great chip, but since the release of the upgraded Pro Max and Ultra chips, it’s become really hard to justify the iMac and, if I’m being honest, even before those newer chips came out, I found the iMac. Couldn’T handle everything I needed to do and I found myself using another, more powerful Mac whenever I needed to deal with footage here. It’S a damn. Shame too, because the iMac is so beautiful and should be the only computer.
I need here with the new version. Is it we got the orange model this time which, in my office lighting, appears perilously close to Pink? It’S definitely in that salmon Coral part of the spectrum the colors aren’t new, though what is is the M3 chip it’s constructed using the latest Advanced 3 nanometer process. This helps enable performance, core clock speeds that now surpass 4 GHz and bring efficiency. Core clock speeds even closer to the m1’s performance cores, there’s also a couple more GPU cores with 8 and 10 available, and that GPU now supports Hardware accelerated Ray tracing.
But, crucially, for me: there’s the medy engine with proor decoding and encoding and new for M3 and av1 decoder, the jump from the M1 to M2. Isn’T that notable? But the jump from the M1 to this is, for instance, just walking outside a house in Resident Evil. Village, I got frame rate ranging between 40 and 60, whereas our M1 model peaked at 40, but you’d really have to lock it at 30. Game looks decent on this screen, though, when I do my da Vinci resolve export test.
The M3 takes nearly a third of the time, that’s an improvement and though it does get the fan running on the orange iMac, you can barely hear it. Single core performance is always where the latest Apple silicon chips shine, irrespective of tier and certainly in lab’s lz4 compression test, which uses only one core. You can see just how far the new architecture goes when translated into our blender Barbershop test.
The M3 is over 12 minutes faster than the M1, but interestingly, it’s only 4 and 1/2 minutes slower than the pricee M2 Pro, which has two more performance course, because I want this to be the only computer for my desk. We spec a 16 GB model. Memory. Is important as I’ve discovered I’ll explain how but first let’s hear a word from this video sponsor bandwork known for their more refined, take on Apple accessories. Their new bandwork xline of cases are made from aircraft grade aluminium and then backed with quality leather from the hinen Tannery in Germany.
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Mac Mini for her thumbnail photoshopping, and it wasn’t enough whenever I use this M1 iMac to deal with our footage it can get bogged down. Premiere would hang on my mouse press down long after I released the mouse, which is really annoying when you’re trimming a clip and Catalyst browse which lets us view. Our Sony footage easily fills the memory wo. I got this swap up to 20 gigs.
To be honest, I was really pushing things here because strangely both have been working, much smoother on this old iMac, which I think can be attributed to better app optimization. But that being said, the new upgraded, M3 iMac is much better. The new chip, along with the $ 200 RAM, upgrade means there’s no waiting when you move the playhead to another part of the timeline and hit play. In fact, when I see the editors struggle with their thread Ripper systems, it makes me wonder if they’d be better off with this, though I don’t think I have the influence Capital to try and experiment in there again, how much slower is it 9 to one and Takes nine times longer yeah, I definitely have a lot of confidence in the new IMAX abilities, but I do have a few niggles.
One thing I’m really disappointed about is that the ethernet port doesn’t support the much faster 2.5 GB speeds. Yes, Apple added support for Wi-Fi 6E, but Wireless is too unreliable for multi-cam editing, it’s one big in this IMAX armor, and so, if I want to add faster ethernet I’d have to spring for an extra dongle instead of the clever Port hidden under under the desk. That I already paid extra for, while I’m griping about ports, the iMac oddly, doesn’t have Thunderbolt 4 either sure this won’t matter to wits to the majority of people who buy this thing, but consider that the M2 powered $ 600 Mac Mini. Has it and 10 gig ethernet too? Ah, yes, the price, though the iMac starts at $ 1,300.
For that you get the base model which doesn’t come in orange or yellow or purple. That means you only get eight GPU cores and 8 GB of RAM, which I’m having trouble justifying for even Grandma these days. You also only get 256 GB of SSD storage. Furthermore, there’s no Touch ID on the keyboard, no extra, USB ports at the back and no ethernet on the floor.
If you want those last three bonus features and the 10 core GPU, it’s another $ 200. This orange iMac with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage is $ 1,900 and phew. That’S not an insignificant sum, but still a bit less than how much an equivalent Intel power. 27In iMac cost back in the day. Ah, yes, the long departed iMac. I just want to take a moment and note that I, like this screen size, I’m a bit of a weird person here at lmg, because this is the only screen I use, whereas everyone else either has two or three massive screens taking over their desk or one. Unbelievably long one, I don’t get it yes, I am flicking my fingers between workspaces if I’m researching and writing at the same same time, but I have never ever felt cramped something I felt using a 1080p ultrawide, which I think was the first screen I was given When I started working here, God that yellow iMac was an upgrade – and God is this iMac an upgrade from that, but you will pay for it with the release of the M3 Apple has shaken up their lineup, and so things are kind of weird. You can get an M3 MacBook Pro with 16 GB of memory for $ 1,800.
This is $ 100 more, and if you want more power, an equivalent M3 Pro is $ 22,000. It really seems like this is the price range Apple wants to sell their computers. For back when we did the pick your dream setup video, I picked an upgraded M1 iMac and then guessed way less than the setup was worth. Oh, what I don’t know if you could tell at the time – but I regretted my pick, because I knew the iMac just wasn’t up to Snuff anymore – you can still get it in the refurbished store at a little over $ 1,000 is not much less than a Refurbished model cost last year that computer is only suited for or decoration and if you look at the more upgraded spec models, it’s worth considering the shorter lifespan, these old iMacs have now the M1 was introduced 3 years ago and the savings are less than 20 %.
So, for me, I feel like the M3 has more life in it for the tasks I do and because we upgraded the memory this time, I do believe I have the One desktop computer that can do everything I need it to. There’S no need for me to set up a Mac Studio or Pro on the their desk anymore, thanks for watching this allinone Mac address like And subscribe, and I’m curious in the comments below, if you’re, the type of person who would still get a desktop like this Cuz, I feel like there’s a few of you who do and if you want to watch another video we did well. You could watch the first video we did on the iMac. Oh my God.
Over two years ago, .