Pros
- Large, bright and high-quality display (you can hardly find better for this money), performance, high-quality sound and microphones. Well, and, of course, design.
Cons
- For me they are not.
Apple 27 Inch Retina Desktop MK472LL Review
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Description of Apple 27 Inch Retina Desktop MK472LL
27-inch (diagonal) Retina 5K display with IPS technology (5120x2880). 3.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor. 16GB of 1867MHz DDR3 memory | 512GB of flash storage (SSD). AMD Radeon R9 M380 graphics processor | FaceTime HD camera. 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking | Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology.
Pros
- Large screen. Almost no monitors of comparable quality are available on the market (the LG 5k ultrafine for 110tr is the closest). Exceptional performance—many claim the m1 vomits Intel. Although I have a more recent model with 256GB and an i5 processor, I don't notice any differences as a regular user of zoom, JIRA, docs, Figma, or Mail on the macbook pro on the m1. Excellent frontal camera (the one on the iMac from 2022 has a significantly poorer frontal camera). Cool sound and microphone make Zoom a pleasure to use for communication. The greatest PC deal for this money is at 127tr.
Cons
- Since you don't want to use a mouse again after using a laptop, there is no trackpad in the package. separately purchased for 11tr. The keyboard does not have virtual buttons that can substitute different values based on the application, unlike Macbooks with Control Strip. Additionally, it lacks the Touch ID "finger" needed to unlock the display and make transactions. However, there is a workaround: if you own an Apple Watch, you may use it to unlock the screen and make payments. The connectors on the rear require some getting used to, even though there are significantly more than on comparable laptops. Wide frames are mentioned frequently in 2022; after a day of work, you grow accustomed to them and stop noticing them.
Pros
- A 5k screen with True Tone technology is incredible. This high-quality display will set you back more than a Mac. I had heard that upscaling would make 4K and 1080P movies appear terrible on a 5K Mac monitor, but I couldn't be more wrong. I checked the sharpness of the same YouTube video on a 4k monitor and a poppy and saw no change. On the other hand, I noticed a distinction in color reproduction and matrix highlights between the Mac and a cheap 4k Philips monitor. The colors are more accurate and there are fewer highlights on the Mac. The speakers produce a high-quality sound. Extremely speedy; you'll be pleasantly surprised if you're upgrading from an older Mac with an SSD and were expecting similar performance. The read/write speed of the basic SSD is roughly 1600/1100. In the past, the maximum read/write speed when using an external SSD connected via USB 3.0 was 500 IOPS. That is, the internal SSD is now three times as fast as it was before. Windows is fully functional in 5k, which is perhaps the last poppy that can do so. Here we have a decent audio output on Windows. The audio quality under Windows was noticeably lower than on Mac OS on my prior late-2022 Mac because of faulty audio drivers. There is a slot for adding more memory, so I bought two 16 GB Kingston strips and increased the original 8 GB to a whopping 40 GB. The low price is, funnily enough, one of the benefits I'll give. Compared to other Macs, the 27-inch model is actually quite cheap. I've been looking at it for a long time, and 120k is too much; I've seen similar items for less than 200 dollars. And the 2022 model started at 145k, even though the 2022 model with the previous generation of processors starts at 149k. Macbooks cost more despite being weaker and having a smaller screen; the Mac mini costs around $100, but is inferior in power and does not include a stylish monitor; the iMac 21.5" costs several tens less, but they were practically not ated; the older model uses processors from a previous generation and has no memory expansion slot. The cheapest option is the junior model with the base 27-inch screen.
Cons
- Before, I used an iMac 21.5" 2022 with an Intel Iris Pro 5200 processor. He completed routine activities in complete silence. The only time the cooler was audible was during really taxing operations. There is always some background fan noise, even when the machine is doing nothing. You can't hear noise if there's soft music playing or a window is open. But in total silence you can hear it; this is the one flaw I've found with this PC; I'm still accustomed to quietness, and I mistakenly believed that all poppies are silent. A new Mac powered by ARM is not expected to make any noise. Even if you manage to remove the screen on this model, you won't be able to upgrade to a faster and larger internal SSD because it is soldered directly onto the motherboard. I certainly wouldn't rip off the screen to replace the SSD and then glue it back on to something so pricey. Many people have complained about the scarcity of Thunderbolt ports, and the fact that only two are shared by different devices. In other words, you won't be able to attach another Thunderbolt drive anywhere if you already have your operating system installed on a fast external Thunderbolt SSD (occupying one port) and you also want to connect a Thunderbolt monitor (occupying the other port). Another issue I had while attempting to install Windows 10 was with the BootCamp application itself. The driver package that BootCamp downloaded for me would not install in Windows, and the installation would just stall at the "enumerating pre-install packages" stage. I even tried reinstalling Windows from fresh, but that wasn't any better. The native keyboard and mouse are not instantly recognized, unlike the old poppies, which required no manual installation on my part. They require manual pairing, but disconnect on Mac OS, necessitating reconnection (through Lightning cable insertion). It's a pain that I have to use a different keyboard and mouse, especially as I had no trouble installing the driver on my old Poppy and the devices were compatible with both Mac OS and Windows. But I'm sure they'll figure out a solution.
Pros
- 10th generation processor, quick NVMe drive, Radeon Pro 5300, ideal screen size and quality right out of the box, SD card reader, 3.5mm connector, and USB 3.0 ports, expandable RAM up to 128GB, and decent sound quality from the built-in speakers.
Cons
- Instead of the reverse, I would prefer 4 USB Type-C and 2 USB 3.0. Installing 16GB of RAM would be possible as early as 2022.
Pros
- Great computer! Ideal for 2D animation, graphics and compositing.
Cons
- The included mouse isn't very comfortable and has a limited set of gestures compared to the trackpad, but it takes some getting used to (or just pay extra for a trackpad).
Pros
- Apple ecosystem; quality assembly; very good screen
Cons
- The design is already outdated, the price tag is high - it's easier to take a macmini + a good monitor (but then the magic of monoblocks is lost); old processors (Intel)
