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New Apple iMac Review
In this video we're reviewing the 2021 iMac now this iMac could be the very last iMac with this design and the very last iMac sporting an intel CPU inside but if that's true I have to say that apple at least went out with the bang with the 2021 iMac.
In this video, we're reviewing the 2020 iMac. Now, this iMac could be the very last iMac with this design and the very last iMac sporting an Intel CPU inside. But if that's true, I have to say that Apple at least went out with a bang with the 2020 iMac.
Let's review it right now. – [Announcer] Thanks for watching 9to5Mac. Be sure to thumbs up, click the Subscribe button and then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos.
Here it is folks, 2021, New Apple iMac Review
On the surface, it looks like the same old, same old iMac but underneath the hood, there's quite a bit new to talk about, but first, we need to go ahead and get it unboxed.
Now you may have noticed that the actual design on the outside of the box is the same design that Apple used last year so they didn't even bother changing the design of the box. Instead, what Apple did is just slapped a new sticker on top with all the latest and greatest specifications so we're gonna talk about all what's new as soon as we get this thing completely unboxed so we're gonna go ahead and grab the power cable down here beneath, so there we go, nothing's changed with that.
Let's go ahead and pull the iMac out of the box. We'll slide the box aside. Let's take these little styrofoam protector things off. One on that side, one on this side. Now we'll remove the tamper-proof sticker and take the protector sheet off and we also need to remove the plastic protector that goes all the way around the display.
Just grab that off like that, there we go and there's one more little sheet there at the bottom and we'll remove that. There we go. So we're in business folks, so now let's talk about what's in the design by Apple in California box.
So first up is the magic mouse. Of course, this is just your regular white magic mouse, it has rechargeable batteries inside, non-removable by the way. I love the magic mouse for its gestures, but I will acknowledge it has terrible ergonomics.
We also have the magic keyboard, which is a really great keyboard with enough key travel that's suitable for most people in my opinion. You also have your little charging port there for your lightning connector.
The magic mouse also has a charging port as well, but it's on the bottom and you actually can't use it while you're charging, which is just a terrible design. Herein you're getting standard packing, you have some documentation, you have regulatory information, you have your Apple stickers.
Yeah, thumbs up for those Apple stickers and you also have a cleaning cloth to clean the screen, which reminds me to be sure to check out our screen cleaning tutorial linked up below. You also have lightning USB-A cable, which is great because you have a limited amount of USB-C ports on the back of this iMac.
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Speaking of ports, let's talk about I/O. So right off the bat, I'll tell you not much has changed here with the IO. There is one change and that is the ability to configure 10-gigabit ethernet instead of gigabit ethernet for an extra 100 bucks so just keep that in mind.
So you have your 3.5-millimetre headphone input. You have your SD card input right here, and then you have four. Yes, count them four USB-A ports. Seems like a little bit of overkill, In my opinion, I would have preferred to have two extra USB-C ports, even if they weren't Thunderbolt three capable.
Here are your two Thunderbolt three USB-C ports and that is one of the major deficiencies of this 27 inch iMac, only having two Thunderbolt three ports. The Mac mini has four, So I mean you have just two here on the iMac, that is a definite bummer.
We'll talk about that a little bit later and then, as I said, you have gigabit ethernet standard, but you can also configure this now for 10-gigabyte ethernet for just $100 more so if you wanna connect to a Synology NAS that has 10-gigabyte ethernets this is a great option.
On the opposite side, you have your power button and I just have to say, man as outdated as the design of this iMac looks, I mean the build quality is still spectacular. You see your power socket and then right below that you see the Kensington Security Slot and then right above the power socket, you have your RAM door and the exhaust port for your iMac.
So this iMac has a 27 inch 5K display and the great thing about this design is that you can move the display literally with a pinky and it stays right in place. It's so easy to move and adjust. it doesn't go up and down, but you can tilt it.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any third-party monitor on the market that has as good functionality in this manner as the iMac. It is just second to none. Granite the design has been around for a long time and it is in desperate need of a refresh in my opinion, but still, there's no denying the fact that functionality-wise and design-wise, the 27 inch iMac is super practical and about as timeless as you can hope to imagine a product in today's fast-food society where you just have a product one day and you throw it away the next day.
Once this design is gone, I think a lot of people including yours truly admittedly, are gonna look back on this design with fondness. Now in this review, I am specifically focusing on the entry-level $1,800 base configuration and I wanna discuss the value of the base configuration in this particular video.
So let's get started with the Apple iMac Review and nitty-gritty details right now. We're gonna start off with memory. Now, the iMac comes standard with eight gigabytes of RAM, but you can configure up to 128 gigabytes for the first time for a whopping $2,600.
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So that's taking your $1,800 iMac and making it $4,400 to upgrade to that RAM. Now, in another video, I showed you how you can upgrade the RAM yourself and save two grand if upgrading to 128 gigabytes as I've done here, but you can also upgrade to 64 or 16 even or 32, whatever the case may be, whatever your needs are.
So for the first time this year, Apple is allowing iMac users to configure up to 128 gigabytes. That'll give you lots more headroom to run multiple applications, and it will also boost your CPU performance.
As you can see here, I gained almost 1000 points in my Geekbench Multi-Core score by upgrading that eight gigabytes of RAM. So that's the great thing about the 27 inch iMac is that it has a little RAM door on the back to upgrade yourself.
Now for the first time, the iMac gets the Apple T2 security chip. Now, this chip does obviously security related things. It has a secure enclave, which allows for secure boot and encrypted storage, but it's also a Jack of all trades and that's because it consolidates multiple controllers on a single chip so you have, for instance, your SSD controller, system management controller, audio controller, it allows for things like, hey, you know who.
It also allows for the very first time, a 1080P full HD camera and here's my colleague Miles Somerville talking about the camera and microphone upgrades. – The Apple webcam built into the iMac had far better colour reproduction, much better dynamic range.
It's honestly crazy to see how badly (indistinct) Logitech Brio compared to the iMac's webcam. As far as the iMac, I can definitely tell the difference between the microphone on this machine and let's say something like my MacBook Air.
I'm thinking anyone who needs a higher quality mic than this probably already has that microphone. So, anyone who just wants to use something solid for Zoom calls and stuff like that, it should be pretty fine.
Now let's talk about storage because, for the very first time, the base model iMac now gets an SSD standard. In other words, goodbye horrible fusion drive. Unfortunately, you only get 256 gigabytes of flash storage on the base model, but that will usually be enough for the operating system and all of your applications.
Notice the speed here, it's not a barn burner by any means, but it's definitely faster than the fusion drive and the key is you'll get relatively consistent speed. As you upgrade that SSD flash drive you'll get even faster speeds.
Now, that being said, if you compare that drive to something like the OWC Envoy Pro EX which is a four terabyte Thunderbolt three SSD. You could see the speeds on that guy are much faster than the SSD inside of the base iMac, but either way, your speeds will be better than the fusion drive.
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For instance, back when I reviewed the 2019 iMac, I copied a 500-gigabyte file from my Mac to an external SSD and it took forever, but watch what happens when I do the same thing here, copying a file, it's not 500 gigabytes, but nonetheless, you see the speed there.
The sheer raw speed of flash storage when compared to a hybrid drive, like the fusion drive. Now let's talk about that 10th generation Intel Core i5 CPU. So right off the bat, you're gonna notice.
Yes, indeed speeds are better than the base model 2019 5K iMac and that should come really as no surprise but the cool thing here is that with this latest iMac, you can actually upgrade to a 10 core Intel i9 CPU.
Apple iMac Review Video Multi-Core score
If you wanna see a video on that, leave me a thumbs up below and let me know, but take note of the Multi-Core score 6437 and here's the Multi-Core score from last year's base model, 5084 so that's a not insignificant jump between year models and compared to something like a MacBook Pro the iMac's great, because it has lots of room for cooling and it can keep that CPU cool, even when under load for sustained periods of time, so here I'm transcoding some video files and you can see that thing is just pegged at the top and it is working hard.
All 12 of those threads working diligently. And I must say the fan is a little bit loud, certainly much louder than the iMac Pro. Now let's talk about graphics because this is a big deal, so this iMac is gonna be pretty good for gaming, so if you're an Apple Arcade subscriber, it works great for games, video editing, et cetera.
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Now the base model is stack with the Radeon pro 5,300. You actually can't even upgrade unless you jump up to the 2299 high-end configuration, but even this base model, as you can see, 63 frames per second in our Heaven benchmark compare that to last year 46.8, so a pretty big jump between these two-year models and the same thing goes for the Valley benchmark. Basically what I'm saying is, games are gonna perform generally speaking, quite decently on this iMac and we can look at some of the Metal benchmarks.
So I ran graphics bench metal here, and you can see the Radeon Pro 5,300, four gigabytes of RAM, how that compares to a MacBook Pro slash eGPU set up so you can pause right here. It's actually fairly impressive what you get out of this GPU.
But of course, what I am very passionate about is Final Cut Pro 10 performance, right. Here is one of my favourite benchmarks. It's an oldie but goodie. It is, of course, Bruce X. So this runs the Bruce X benchmark, which basically has a really short, but very complex timeline there and it exports in about 18 seconds and that's actually pretty decent for an entry-level iMac, but one of the cool things is that this is a Navi-based GPU so it's gonna have enhanced HEVC slash H.265 encoding slash decoding for 4K and 8K, so you're gonna have improved performance exporting and playing back high-resolution H.265 video files, but I also wanted to concentrate just on timeline performance and Final Cut Pro 10, so I have an unrendered timeline that's playing back at full resolution here and look you can see it's unrendered and I just click and it plays immediately.
There's no hesitation there. Media starts playing back as soon as I click, you can see the Radeon Pro 5,300 doing its thing and as you can see, playback is pretty smooth for this is H.264 video I've imported from my Canon EOS R and it's playing back without having to be transcoded and no rendering.
Also, try out a few games like Sonic Racing. Now, this is gonna look a little choppy because this is 24 frames per second video, so just keep that in mind. But that was a pretty smooth experience as were other games that I tried out.
Now, let's talk about the display because actually, some things have changed, even though it looks the same. Some things have changed with this 2020 iMac. First of all, you get True Tone support, so it's gonna automatically adjust the white point of the display based on ambient lighting for more accurate colours.
You also get for the very first time Pro Display XDR native resolution support. Last year's model was capped at 5K, so here you see pixel doubled 3008 by 1692, which translates into the real 6K resolution.
If you double it here, it's obviously running in retina mode, but if you want to straight-up 6K, you can do that as well by using the scaled options. Now watch how smoothly I can enter and exit full-screen mode on this 6K display, it's butter smooth.
That's impressive. Now as a Pro Display XDR user, I definitely noticed there's more reflectivity with this iMac. It's very noticeable, but the cool thing is, this year you get the option to configure nano-textured glass and this was previously exclusive to the $5,000 Pro Display XDR, so you can get this option for 500 bucks.
Yeah, thumbs up for those Apple stickers and you also have a cleaning cloth to clean the screen, which reminds me to be sure to check out our screen cleaning tutorial linked up below. You also have lightning USB-A cable, which is great because you have a limited amount of USB-C ports on the back of this iMac.
Imac Tutorial Video
Speaking of ports, let's talk about I/O. So right off the bat, I'll tell you not much has changed here with the IO. There is one change and that is the ability to configure 10-gigabit ethernet instead of gigabit ethernet for an extra 100 bucks so just keep that in mind.
So you have your 3.5-millimetre headphone input. You have your SD card input right here, and then you have four. Yes, count them four USB-A ports. Seems like a little bit of overkill, In my opinion, I would have preferred to have two extra USB-C ports, even if they weren't Thunderbolt three capable.
Here are your two Thunderbolt three USB-C ports and that is one of the major deficiencies of this 27 inch iMac, only having two Thunderbolt three ports. The Mac mini has four, So I mean you have just two here on the iMac, that is a definite bummer.
We'll talk about that a little bit later and then, as I said, you have gigabit ethernet standard, but you can also configure this now for 10-gigabyte ethernet for just $100 more so if you wanna connect to a Synology NAS that has 10-gigabyte ethernets this is a great option.
On the opposite side, you have your power button and I just have to say, man as outdated as the design of this iMac looks, I mean the build quality is still spectacular. You see your power socket and then right below that you see the Kensington Security Slot and then right above the power socket, you have your RAM door and the exhaust port for your iMac.
So this iMac has a 27 inch 5K display and the great thing about this design is that you can move the display literally with a pinky and it stays right in place. It's so easy to move and adjust. it doesn't go up and down, but you can tilt it.
You'd be hard-pressed to find any third-party monitor on the market that has as good functionality in this manner as the iMac. It is just second to none. Granite the design has been around for a long time and it is in desperate need of a refresh in my opinion, but still, there's no denying the fact that functionality-wise and design-wise, the 27 inch iMac is super practical and about as timeless as you can hope to imagine a product in today's fast-food society where you just have a product one day and you throw it away the next day.
Once this design is gone, I think a lot of people including yours truly admittedly, are gonna look back on this design with fondness. Now in this review, I am specifically focusing on the entry-level $1,800 base configuration and I wanna discuss the value of the base configuration in this particular video.
So let's get started with the Apple iMac Review and nitty-gritty details right now. We're gonna start off with memory. Now, the iMac comes standard with eight gigabytes of RAM, but you can configure up to 128 gigabytes for the first time for a whopping $2,600.
Apple Imac Tutorial Videos For Beginners
So that's taking your $1,800 iMac and making it $4,400 to upgrade to that RAM. Now, in another video, I showed you how you can upgrade the RAM yourself and save two grand if upgrading to 128 gigabytes as I've done here, but you can also upgrade to 64 or 16 even or 32, whatever the case may be, whatever your needs are.
So for the first time this year, Apple is allowing iMac users to configure up to 128 gigabytes. That'll give you lots more headroom to run multiple applications, and it will also boost your CPU performance.
As you can see here, I gained almost 1000 points in my Geekbench Multi-Core score by upgrading that eight gigabytes of RAM. So that's the great thing about the 27 inch iMac is that it has a little RAM door on the back to upgrade yourself.
Now for the first time, the iMac gets the Apple T2 security chip. Now, this chip does obviously security related things. It has a secure enclave, which allows for secure boot and encrypted storage, but it's also a Jack of all trades and that's because it consolidates multiple controllers on a single chip so you have, for instance, your SSD controller, system management controller, audio controller, it allows for things like, hey, you know who.
It also allows for the very first time, a 1080P full HD camera and here's my colleague Miles Somerville talking about the camera and microphone upgrades. – The Apple webcam built into the iMac had far better colour reproduction, much better dynamic range.
It's honestly crazy to see how badly (indistinct) Logitech Brio compared to the iMac's webcam. As far as the iMac, I can definitely tell the difference between the microphone on this machine and let's say something like my MacBook Air.
I'm thinking anyone who needs a higher quality mic than this probably already has that microphone. So, anyone who just wants to use something solid for Zoom calls and stuff like that, it should be pretty fine.
Now let's talk about storage because, for the very first time, the base model iMac now gets an SSD standard. In other words, goodbye horrible fusion drive. Unfortunately, you only get 256 gigabytes of flash storage on the base model, but that will usually be enough for the operating system and all of your applications.
Notice the speed here, it's not a barn burner by any means, but it's definitely faster than the fusion drive and the key is you'll get relatively consistent speed. As you upgrade that SSD flash drive you'll get even faster speeds.
Now, that being said, if you compare that drive to something like the OWC Envoy Pro EX which is a four terabyte Thunderbolt three SSD. You could see the speeds on that guy are much faster than the SSD inside of the base iMac, but either way, your speeds will be better than the fusion drive.
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For instance, back when I reviewed the 2019 iMac, I copied a 500-gigabyte file from my Mac to an external SSD and it took forever, but watch what happens when I do the same thing here, copying a file, it's not 500 gigabytes, but nonetheless, you see the speed there.
The sheer raw speed of flash storage when compared to a hybrid drive, like the fusion drive. Now let's talk about that 10th generation Intel Core i5 CPU. So right off the bat, you're gonna notice.
Yes, indeed speeds are better than the base model 2019 5K iMac and that should come really as no surprise but the cool thing here is that with this latest iMac, you can actually upgrade to a 10 core Intel i9 CPU.
Apple iMac Review Video Multi-Core score
If you wanna see a video on that, leave me a thumbs up below and let me know, but take note of the Multi-Core score 6437 and here's the Multi-Core score from last year's base model, 5084 so that's a not insignificant jump between year models and compared to something like a MacBook Pro the iMac's great, because it has lots of room for cooling and it can keep that CPU cool, even when under load for sustained periods of time, so here I'm transcoding some video files and you can see that thing is just pegged at the top and it is working hard.
All 12 of those threads working diligently. And I must say the fan is a little bit loud, certainly much louder than the iMac Pro. Now let's talk about graphics because this is a big deal, so this iMac is gonna be pretty good for gaming, so if you're an Apple Arcade subscriber, it works great for games, video editing, et cetera.
Apple Imac Tutorial Videos Download
Now the base model is stack with the Radeon pro 5,300. You actually can't even upgrade unless you jump up to the 2299 high-end configuration, but even this base model, as you can see, 63 frames per second in our Heaven benchmark compare that to last year 46.8, so a pretty big jump between these two-year models and the same thing goes for the Valley benchmark. Basically what I'm saying is, games are gonna perform generally speaking, quite decently on this iMac and we can look at some of the Metal benchmarks.
So I ran graphics bench metal here, and you can see the Radeon Pro 5,300, four gigabytes of RAM, how that compares to a MacBook Pro slash eGPU set up so you can pause right here. It's actually fairly impressive what you get out of this GPU.
But of course, what I am very passionate about is Final Cut Pro 10 performance, right. Here is one of my favourite benchmarks. It's an oldie but goodie. It is, of course, Bruce X. So this runs the Bruce X benchmark, which basically has a really short, but very complex timeline there and it exports in about 18 seconds and that's actually pretty decent for an entry-level iMac, but one of the cool things is that this is a Navi-based GPU so it's gonna have enhanced HEVC slash H.265 encoding slash decoding for 4K and 8K, so you're gonna have improved performance exporting and playing back high-resolution H.265 video files, but I also wanted to concentrate just on timeline performance and Final Cut Pro 10, so I have an unrendered timeline that's playing back at full resolution here and look you can see it's unrendered and I just click and it plays immediately.
There's no hesitation there. Media starts playing back as soon as I click, you can see the Radeon Pro 5,300 doing its thing and as you can see, playback is pretty smooth for this is H.264 video I've imported from my Canon EOS R and it's playing back without having to be transcoded and no rendering.
Also, try out a few games like Sonic Racing. Now, this is gonna look a little choppy because this is 24 frames per second video, so just keep that in mind. But that was a pretty smooth experience as were other games that I tried out.
Now, let's talk about the display because actually, some things have changed, even though it looks the same. Some things have changed with this 2020 iMac. First of all, you get True Tone support, so it's gonna automatically adjust the white point of the display based on ambient lighting for more accurate colours.
You also get for the very first time Pro Display XDR native resolution support. Last year's model was capped at 5K, so here you see pixel doubled 3008 by 1692, which translates into the real 6K resolution.
If you double it here, it's obviously running in retina mode, but if you want to straight-up 6K, you can do that as well by using the scaled options. Now watch how smoothly I can enter and exit full-screen mode on this 6K display, it's butter smooth.
That's impressive. Now as a Pro Display XDR user, I definitely noticed there's more reflectivity with this iMac. It's very noticeable, but the cool thing is, this year you get the option to configure nano-textured glass and this was previously exclusive to the $5,000 Pro Display XDR, so you can get this option for 500 bucks.
So it etches into the glass at a nanometer level to reduce reflectivity, but it also allows you to maintain higher fidelity than your typical matte display. If you wanna see a review of that, leave me a thumbs up.
So the 2020 5K iMac, it's kind of a weird release because we know that this is probably I mean very likely the last iMac that we're gonna see with an Intel CPU inside. Apple is transitioning over to their own CPUs in future Mac releases.
So that means it's very likely as well that we're gonna see, yes indeed, a brand new iMac designed to correspond with that new Apple Silicon, so if you buy this Mac, you're gonna have to be okay with having something that looks super outdated in possibly the next year.
It's akin to buying the last model year of a vehicle and then having to watch everyone else have the newest version of that vehicle the very next year. You may not even care about that, but it's something to keep in mind, but here's the thing, it's possible that the CPUs and GPUs that we're gonna see in this next iMac are gonna have much better performance than what we've seen from Intel and AMD over the last few years, so keep that in mind as well, but here's something else since Apple is transitioning over to their own chips, that means that Boot Camp will likely be left behind with the old Intel chips.
So that means you're not gonna be able to install Windows and dual boot Windows. Like you can currently on this iMac and that depending on your needs, how you use your Mac could be a definite disappointment, so just keep that in mind, be prepared to give up Windows Boot Camp support and that means all your favourite Windows games, if you like to game on Windows on your Mac, that's gonna be a thing of the past.
Now here's another potential negative of a redesigned iMac. It's likely that Apple is gonna get rid of the ability to upgrade the RAM yourself. So that's such a nice feature on this 5K iMacs, but that's probably gonna go away too.
Now, one thing I don't like about this iMac and all the 5K iMacs is that they lack an extra Thunderbolt three Bus, so you get just one Thunderbolt three Bus shared between two Thunderbolt three ports and that's okay.
But for instance, if I have a Pro Display XDR connected, and I have an SSD connected, Thunderbolt three SSD, I'm completely out of Thunderbolt three ports because there's no Daisy chaining with those two devices and there's the fact that if you connect two bandwidth-hogging devices like two SSDs, for instance, they're gonna compete for bandwidth over that single bus, which will reduce performance and that's why it just kind of annoys me because even the Mac mini has four Thunderbolt three ports and two Thunderbolt three buses, so I know that was a lot to digest, but I had to say, overall, this entry-level $1,800 iMac is great, it's a phenomenal value for what you get.
You get a 5K display, still, one of the nicest displays you can buy. You get solid CPU and GPU performance even on the base model. The ability to upgrade RAM, a better webcam, a better three array microphone, slightly better speakers.
It's just of overall great value, but all that comes with one big catch and that is, this is probably the last iMac we'll see with this design and with Intel CPUs. If you really need a new machine, you could do far worse than the 2020 iMac.
But if you can wait, I think you should wait. Be sure to leave me a thumbs up because that helps other people find this video and let me know what you guys think down below in the comments. This is Jeff with 9to5Mac.
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