hello this is David from tech advisor we've been sent the new 8 core iMac
from Apple and we're going to take a look so this is a very powerful machine
we've been sent by Apple it's 8 cores as I said it for 16 gigabytes of RAM it's
got an SSD half terabyte SSD so it cost about £3,200 about $3,300 aspect
it's built or diversion so we're going to have a little look at it we can unbox
it now and then afterwards we're going to set it up and benchmark it to see how
it compares to the iMac Pro and see if it's as powerful as people say so let's
let's get started let's open up this box and shut up here see what's inside
so we think forward
and there it is opening it up a product is always a pleasure but this is a
particularly large Apple product see
right
silly open up again a classic Apple tab
we can bring this forward now this is the 2019 model which Apple announced in
March and it the first time it updated the iMac in about 21 months so the last
version was from 2017 and this is the same externally the keyboard there you
know that in a moment
this is ridiculous Wow
Wow yeah this is actually quite a hard work so I lift this out of here
know where to put all these boxes right
here it is that was actually really quite hard work it's the new iMac it's
got this protective cover over it
and once we look in there you will see that it is as I said essentially the
same design as in 2017 it's a polystyrene everywhere and there's
another bit of plastic on top of this so that design yeah as I said it's the same
as in 2017 it actually goes back further than that this design with the the
slimmed down sides is from about 2012 an apples been doing this approximate
design since even earlier than that so a lot of people were saying that they
should update the design in some way
there was a prediction by minky Kouros the analyst who said that the display
would be updated that is the same there's no sign of a touchscreen for
example
some people thought that the the chin was going to get smaller as well that it
would become more of a all screen device it's not the same what has changed is on
the inside so essentially the processes have been updated and the graphics have
been updated so it now gets the eighth and the ninth generation Intel
processors so this has got the ninth generation i-9 with eight cores which is
the maximum you can get the lowest you'll get now is six so you'll either
get six or eight and previously the maximum was four right which we look at
next there's a few more bits of plastic protecting all the shiny aluminium parts
around here another little bit and so you look at the ports around the back
this is another area where it is the same as before
you've got your your four USB ports you've got a thunderbolt you've got an
SD card slots I've got the power port
here is the the power supply which is in our case supplied with a UK plug that's
just what UK plugs look like don't be alarmed if you're an American viewer and
I've got a keyboard with it which should match the same design this is all silver
rather you cannot get it in space grey space grey is the iMac Pro option it's
open this up got the Magic Mouse as well
and the other keyboards there's been a bit of a opinion divider and I think
it's quite a nice design either way you get a lot of stuff with this and here is
all right you get the the Lightning USB to lightning cable so you can connect to
your I devices the black lightning cable that came to the I'm a pro was weirdly
populist if you don't give that which is it shown but I'm sure we better to get
hold one of those if you want and lastly you've got Apple's usual box of legal
information and normally you get a sticker I'm sure there'll be a
certificate in this um but yeah you get a couple of stickers with the Apple logo
on and this I think is a screen wipe yes there you go so you can look after the
screen the screen as I said same specs as previously it's a 5k screens has very
nice very good color range very bright but that hasn't changed the only things
that have changed are the specs and to put those to the test we're gonna do a
series of edge marks and we'll get back to you in a moment with the results of
those welcome back the benchmarking is finished the numbers are in and the
imine Pro is really fast we'll get the numbers in a minute but
before we do a quick reminder that this is the 8 core version of the iMac with
16 gigabytes of RAM and a half terabyte SSD so if you buy one of the standard
configurations of the iMac it won't be quite as fast as this this was a built
order version which cost about 3,200 pounds or about $3,400 obviously we
didn't pay that we got it from Apple but if you want to get one for yourself
that's how much it will cost so onto the numbers we started with the Geekbench
for processing speed test and in this the imac scored six thousand three
hundred and forty three in the single core section and thirty two thousand
eight hundred and seventy nine points in the multi-core
that's really really fast although the iMac pro with ten cause scored slightly
higher that got five thousand one hundred ninety nine and thirty three
thousand six hundred and thirty-eight but this is still serious speed we're
talking about we next tested the IMAX processor in the Cinebench are twenty
benchmark in this the iMac school at four thousand 191 points those are
essentially arbitrary points but for comparison purposes that was fifty two
percent faster than the top spec Mac Mini and seventy-six percent faster than
the current best macbook pro again the ten core i'm a pro was a little bit
faster which scored five thousand and forty which is twenty five percent
faster we testing graphics performance using our own cinema 4d benchmark which
is based on the pro render engine scores here are in seconds and the lower the
better and the imac 20:19 scored one hundred ninety eight seconds which is
very very fast compared to the macbook pro for example which scored six hundred
and sixty nine seconds and the Mac Mini which scored two thousand one hundred
and one seconds finally we tested overall performance in design and art
applications by using a custom Photoshop benchmark here the iMac 2019 scored nine
hundred and twenty point eight which was by far the fastest performer that we
that we tested including the outrageously expensive HP's n8g for
workstation the Mac Mini scored eight hundred and forty seven point for the
MacBook Pro scored seven hundred and thirty three point six and the zhg for
we just mentioned scored seven hundred and twenty five point two making the
iMac a standout performer so the early impressions are great the numbers look
amazing and this is clearly a very very powerful and serious machine we cannot
wait to get started on a proper review and you'll better catch that on Macworld
WK
yeah