Review on Apple 27 Inch Retina Desktop MK472LL by Vassil Peev ᠌
I do not cease to rejoice at the purchase, a very good deal!
My late 2022 model 21.5" iMac has maintained its 1080p resolution since that year. After hearing about the impending introduction of the iMac 27 "2022, and considering the prices, I made the decision to upgrade. I went with the standard glossy glass and cheapest junior model available, which has an i10500, a Radeon Pro 5300, and a 256GB solid-state drive. It's still roomier than my previous poppy. The younger one cost me 145,000 to get. We get +8 GB of RAM, +256 GB SSD, and +4.6% of the processing power for a lot of money, but the typical model costs 170,000, which is too much. False positive. You can purchase 32 GB more RAM (the Mac only has 40 GB) and a 1 TB Samsung Thunderbolt drive, which is FASTER than the Mac's internal SSD, for the same price. The most costly model, however, is already intriguing at a price of 200 thousand dollars, as it features a substantially more powerful processor and video card. In contrast to older models, the newer Mac will fly if you don't regularly use it for intensive work. It makes sense to add and purchase an earlier model if one suddenly becomes available for a reasonable price (thousands for 175). The 256 GB SSD in the newer model is insufficient; at least 512 GB is required. Since I only had 256 GB of free space on my old Mac, I had to resort to using an external 1 TB SSD for Mac OS and an external USB 3.0 SSD for 512 GB of storage under Windows 10. Excellent in every way. I just upgraded to a new Mac and used this method to make the transition: after updating both computers to the newest version of Catalina, I swapped the external SSD from my old Mac to the new one. Now that I've signed into the new poppy and enabled booting from external devices under BIOS, the updated security chip is conveniently located nearby. The 8 GB of RAM they're shipping with is woefully inadequate, but you'll need to bring it along anyhow so you can upgrade it later. It informed me that, out of a total of 8 GB, roughly 250 MB were available for use. Idle use only consumed 12-16 GB of my 40 GB storage, leaving the remainder available. In other words, 16 GB of RAM is required minimum for the system.
- 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.
- 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.
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