I have two Mid 2011 27" iMacs, one has the 2nd gen i7 with the top of the line GPU, 32GB RAM, so an "apples to apples" comparison to my Late 2012 iMac, and the Late 2012 is very noticeable faster than the Mid 2011. Yes, my iMac is a top of the line, BTO Mac, and it cost 3 times the price of my M1 Mac mini, but it is still going on 9 years old, with 9 year old thermal paste, 9 years of dust built up inside, and it is able to keep up with a modern device. I was just expecting more of an improvement. I am just responding to the OP by saying that while the M1 Macs have been impressive for the value, I am disappointed in the performance when compared to my much older Macs. The power that it provides for the price is amazing. Looking forward to tomorrow when I play with it some more, although I expect it to be only marginally better than my MBA.Ĭlick to expand.I love my M1 Mac Mini, and I really think it is the best value of any Mac. My jaw dropped when Plex finished indexing the whole library (which is huge) in less time than it takes my i7 just to index my 4K movie collection. While Plex was indexing and the Mac was download software and doing all of the initial iCloud syncing one does with a new system. Especially transcoding 4K to, well anything, I gave up trying at 4 on the go. It still manages to blow the ass off my i7 8700 based Windows server. Really impressed with Plex, even though it’s running under Rosetta 2, so not optimised for the M1 in any way shape or form. But I’ll also use it for Xcode and so on, save me docking the laptop every time I go into the office I suppose. Primarily to serve as a second media server (my WinTel system is struggling with demand when 6 people are streaming media). I’m actually so impressed by the low-power, entry level M1 hardware, that today I took delivery of a M1 Mac Mini. Mine is primarily Xcode, video, photo and vector creation/editing, 3D modelling, and then the less demanding general computing tasks, which could be done in an ancient system. I suppose it depends what you’re using it for of course. It’s the 512 with 8 GPU cores), significantly faster than my Late 2015 5K iMac with 32GB RAM and SSD. I’m over the moon with mine (not quite entry level, but close to.
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