Review on 27" Apple iMac All-in-One (Retina 5K, Mid 2020) MXWT2RU/A, 5120x2880, Intel Core i5 3.1GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, AMD Radeon Pro 5300, MacOS, Silver by Wiktor Lisowicz ᠌

Since 2022 I have had an iMac 21.5" late 2022, still with a 1080p display Having learned about the release of the iMac 27 "2022, after looking at the prices, I decided to upgrade. I bought, like many probably, the most inexpensive junior model with an i10500, a Radeon Pro 5300 and a 256gb SSD with the usual glossy glass. Compared to my old poppy, it's still space! ) I bought the younger one for 145,000 in . The average model for 170,000 is not worth the overpayment - for a lot of money we get only + 8 GB of RAM, + 256 GB SSD, + 4.6% of the processor power (judging by the tests). Not beneficial. For the same money, you can buy 32 GB of RAM (you get only 40 GB), and a 1 Terabyte external Samsung Thunderbolt drive, which will be FASTER than the Mac's internal SSD. But the most expensive model for 200 thousand is already interesting, there is already a significantly more powerful processor and video card, but, unfortunately, it was already out of my budget. If you don't use a Mac all the time for heavy tasks, don't worry, the younger one will fly, especially when compared to older models. But if suddenly there is a sale of an older model at an average price (thousands for 175) - it makes sense to add it and buy it! 256 Gb SSD in the younger model is too small, at least 512 is needed, but on the old Mac I didn’t have enough 512, so I use an external 1 Terabyte SSD for Mac OS, and also an external USB 3.0 SSD for 512 for Windows 10. Very convenient . In fact, this is how I switched to a new Mac - I just ated the old and new Macs to the latest version of Catalina, and simply moved the external SSD from the old Mac to the new one, and it worked! Well, after I logged into the new poppy and allowed it to run from external drives in BIOS, now the new security chip is right there. ) 8 gigabytes of RAM is also too little, but you need to take it with them in order to add as much as you need later. With 8 gigabytes, it showed me that about 250 megabytes of RAM was free. When I had 40 GB, I found that 12-16 gigabytes were occupied in idle mode, the rest was free. That is, the system needs at least 16 GB of RAM.