I replaced my $10,000 iMac Pro with a base model 24" M1 iMac for video editing!

[@lukemiani]

Do you think an M1 iMac could replace your current Mac? Why or why not? Also, check out TotalAV at www.totalav.com/lukemiani to get their antivirus suite for $19 per year!

[@windowsxpprofessional]

No I have quick heal😆🤣

[@ianshyu]

Yes, we replaced our Late 2015 21.5” 4K iMac with the new 2021 4 port M1 iMac.

[@tcp124]

Hi

[@princemawan8152]

Man if your planing to give that away then send that to me please and congratulation on 300k subs

[@matejk.3144]

I have 2013 MacBook Pro sooooo Yeees

[@brianalpert2383]

It would be interesting to see how the M1 iMac would compare if you had opted for the 16 Gig model.

[@E579Gaming]

The fact that it is even comfortable to edit 4k with this thing is impressive

[@amirla5797]

I dont think it's that impressive for a 1300$ computer to be able to edit 4k video easily

[@Thai.H]

@@amirla5797 on god bro lol

[@E579Gaming]

@@amirla5797 but i mean for a base line mac its pretty good (Mac users just don't know windows uses can buy a 32GB pc for a little less but oh well)

[@SeanRosairo]

FinalCut is pretty good with 4K. Drop resolution and I can do a 4k edit on an 8gb dual core i5 MacBook pro. But as soon as you do multicam it falls apart. The new ones just sail though it! (And yes, Windows can do it for "cheaper", but $70/mth for Adobe crashing all the time makes Apple actually cheaper for me in terms of time and subscription fees)

[@Thai.H]

@@SeanRosairo yeah but Davinci resolve is a one time payment and has more tools then final cut

[@moudireifan63]

Can’t imagine how the new iMac Pro powered by a Apple Silicone would behave !!!!

[@mm-hl7gh]

I bet the imac pro will be exactly the same but a few more USB ports and space gray color. (And a PRO price)

[@smoll.miniatures]

@@mm-hl7gh 🤦‍♂️ how much do you bet?

[@brandonb.5304]

@@mm-hl7gh What do you mean by "exactly the same"? You think Apple is going to replace its previous Pro with an M1 Pro with 8GB of Ram, the same GPU as this M1 iMac? Highly doubtful. No one who buys a Pro would ever buy that.

[@cunty]

@@brandonb.5304 apple would never use the same chip in their macbook air in a "pro" mac. they'd just murder their own sales because everyone would go with the cheap model. i feel like the pro's main goal should be to be powerful enough to not only fly in m1-optimized programs, but be faster than intel in x86 programs.

[@emmalynmaguire]

@@cunty i mean, the current macbook pro m1 and air m1 are barely different

[@alexrowland]

I recently did some color work on a video in Davinci Resolve with my base M1 MBP. It took about 2 hours 30 minutes to render. Curious to see how it would compare, I rendered the same job with my high performance "gaming" PC that has an overclocked water-cooled Core i7, RTX 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM, and a 1TB 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD. I figured the PC would finish _slightly_ faster and that would be a testament to how amazing it was that my little MBP could keep up with this huge, custom built, water cooled behemoth. I couldn't have been more wrong. DaVinci estimated that it was going to take _over 11 hours_ for the PC to render the exact same job!! I couldn't believe it! the next generation of Apple silicone is going to be insane!

[@jyotiradityasharma9842]

Thx for pointing out the inside difference between the base and higher tier iMac, saved me from making a huge mistake

[@thatwasprettyneat]

Eel he helped save you, but you also saved yourself since a lot of people don’t bother doing any research before buying something that they will own potentially for years

[@jyotiradityasharma9842]

@@thatwasprettyneat yeah mate

[@lorensims4846]

More RAM, an additional graphics core and an additional fan mean a WHOLE lot less on the M1 than it does on intel. The main thing you're getting for buying a more expensive iMac is the wider choice of colors.

[@rmendez011]

@@lorensims4846 The base and mid-tier iMacs have the same 8GB of RAM, hell even the $1699 iMac has 8GB of RAM. You have to add RAM in the customize section.

[@GRBtutorials]

@@lorensims4846 Well, there's also the two additional USB-C ports...

[@HB-Productions]

Just shows how well the Hardware and Software works together! The next 27" iMac (or it's replacement) is going to be epic! M1X or whatever it will be called!

[@donpollo2897]

This just shows how bad the price/performance of the iMac Pro was.

[@prajwalk5667]

Proud to be in a family of 300k . Keep on the great work.

[@Cbas619]

I wanna see the long term review for this model and the mid tier to see how they hold up and if 16gb of RAM would be necessary

[@777jones]

My 2009 iMac has 16GB RAM. It is hilarious that new iMacs have less! WTF!

[@unknownaura]

@@777jones new iMacs don't need that much.

[@chewsir]

@@unknownaura "Need" is a relative term and increased RAM would make the M1 efficient. You might not need more RAM, but I sure do.

[@FlyingPigChannel]

Congrats on 300k!

[@HighPeakMapping]

You know you’re early when not even luke miani has 500 views 😂 congrats on 300k btw

[@daniyalmoriani3368]

My boy out here looking like a dad with that shirt

[@lifeofluxuri]

I’m still so proud of Jonah for moving on from the tv show Superstore & getting a job in Tech. He’s come a long way.

[@gavinives8760]

I came across that show for the first time the other week and my immediate thought was the same. . . "whoah, it's that dude from the interwebz."

[@russellrabanal]

😂😂😂

[@ruthiedoeslife]

Hilarious. I knew he reminded me of someone but I couldn't quite put my finger on it! Now I keep waiting for him to tell us about an article he read, or something he heard on NPR! Lol

[@thecaststudio5304]

Have had the same audio issue with my 16 GB RAM/ 1 TB M1 Mac Mini and FCP. It drops, I relaunch FCP and it works fine. Thought I was doing something wrong, glad to hear I'm not the only one!

[@mspeter97]

I find it pretty impressive that te new iMacs can do almost anything the expensive pro models can. This tech is a game changer

[@dial2616]

no

[@rkneegordon6316]

I agree. If we knew half of what it takes to get apps to perform on intel macs, it’s a cobweb kept running by very smart people. Apple has been “covering” for intel for years, M1 eliminates the middle man. As time goes on the apps we use will become more streamlined, because of M1.

[@pcar928fan]

I am very shocked by how well that new iMac performed! Amazing!

[@MaxBalzer]

Anyone else watching on a new iMac? Great video Luke!

[@NoOne-im3cs]

Meee. Which color did you got. I got a green one

[@AshokKumar-jv6wk]

@@NoOne-im3cs I am poor🥲

[@yusuke9483]

Watching this on my 11 year old iMac 😀👍🏻

[@tekdomination8909]

Watching on iPhone 11

[@JBoy340a]

Going to a Mxxx mini for my desktop. Already have monitors, a keyboard, and a mouse I love.

[@arete1776]

*300K!* Congratulations!

[@bobsykes]

Great video. I guess over a decade of optimizing Apple Silicon to function under all the constraints of being inside an iPhone shows up in the performance of the user interface. The other main differentiator is the way improved hardware implemented CODECS for more recent 4K (and 8K) video formats. If you had the Big MacPro tower or a Windows box, you could update the graphics card every year and those 18 Xeon cores would do everything you need for the next 15 years. Obviously what Apple’s done with an iPhone SOC in their entry level computers is impressive. By the end of 2022 when they’ve migrated their pro line to more workstation like CPU cores, it might be time to replace your Xeon iMacPro.

[@TechOut]

Been editing with the M1 since the mini came out. It's just minor stuff for me but it still works very well.

[@DeRock401]

Same here! I can finally edit 4k60 on the timeline without a proxy if I want I can edit a 4K timeline on 4K! It’s amazing

[@truesearch69]

@@DeRock401 8 gpu or 7 gpu?? Basic model with 8gb ram ????

[@SKongdachalert]

Love how you actually show your FCPX timeline/editing workflow and the specific cuts to where you encounter issues. This video gives out a relatable kind of feeling.

[@mowdudcse]

It's amazing to see this level of performance

[@nevbo]

I'm curious to see how the mid level iMac with 16GB of RAM would do against your current beast. I'm definitely upgrading to the new iMac because my mid 2011 iMac is finally getting so slow it hurts!

[@davidasheddan]

Same intro 3 times in a row, video could have been Half this length. Still the M1 is a beast...

[@v0nreagan]

I keep on waiting for someone to make an honest review of M1 macs for editing. Everyone raves about them, but noone wants to say what we - editors on M1 macs already know - they are only faster if all you edit is plain vanilla FCPX with plain footage. 99% of plugins still don't work natively on M1 and considering it's been 8 months now - it doesn't look like they ever will, at least not without us paying for them twice. Yes, Rosetta layer is available, but at that point new issues are introduced and all the speed advantage stemming from app optimisation and memory addressing is gone. And make no mistake about it - it is mostly in-app optimisation, you can see it for yourself - chuck some random mp4 footage to FCPX on M1 and Intel - Intel will start conforming the footage, despite graphics being fully capable of accelerating h264 or HEVC, M1 will just use your source as proxy and work straight off it. That's not some magical architecture - that's just optimisation of app to create advantages. New versions of FCPX will even conform Prores on Prores timeline on Intel chips. The only real advantage of architecture on M1 is memory to bus access and addressing, which allows for fast swapping of tens of gigs of data which otherwise would need physical memory. No review talks about three other issues in M1 macs, which almost every editor already encountered: - because it's an iPad chip they crippled Thunderbolt 3 and USB4 speeds - you'll need your storage devices plugged into properly licensed external hub to get full bandwidth and even then you'll loose about 20% of speed compared to Intel macs. - artificial crippling of TB3 for multiple display devices. For most M1's - that limit is one display on HDMI and one display on TB3. It won't support dGPU either. Make no mistake - it's an artificial limit, possibly because Apple didn't see a reason to pay full license for something that was meant to be in iPad only? - external display issues. This might not show its ugly head on iMac yet, but M1 MacPro and M1 Mac Mini users know what I'm talking about - random flicker, vertical lines and ghosting on images displayed on dark backgrounds. Plus pink squares - check mac forums for hundreds of reports, not acknowledged by Apple and still unresolved 8 months later. Don't get a wrong impression - I'm not anti M1, I own M1 device (in addition to four other Intel Macs). M1 is fine toy. But don't get overboard with all these reviews raving about base M1 macs beating $10,000 pro macs in video and audio editing. It looks good on KZbin, but in reality, unless all you do is edit simple blogs, it's a nightmare in real life at the moment - lack of ports, lack of capture devices, lack of full speed data buses, lack of third party plugins supporting this architecture natively, and tons of random incompatibilities and hardware issues noone wants to acknowledge. If you want bedroom browsing machine - get M1 iMac, if you want to edit audio or video for living - skip this generation. Completely. Don't listen to any KZbinrs. M1 is an early, severely crippled demo, it's got bus issues and drawbacks of mobile device port. Trust me. It's bad enough that Big Sure is a Windows Vista of MacOSes, save your $1500 and just skip M1 completely until you see them releasing Silicone chips with full memory support. Once you can get next gen Silicon mac with 64Gb of ram - jump on it.

[@peterwilson9699]

I totally agree!

[@orbbb]

I am not surprised about the performance. Over the weekend, I was editing a virtual choir video that has 109 videos. 80% of them are 1080P and the rest 720P.. 95% of these videos have color correction and other effects. At the end of the editing process I have ALL 109 videos on screen at the same time, there are 4 compound clips, that are inside of a 4 quadrant effect (that has an animation). I was originally editing this on my 2019 iMac 3.6 i9 with 40GB of ram. Can you imagine how much fun it was to edit this video in that situation. Well after hours of waiting around to do anything I decided to pack this up, move the project to my M1 MBP (8GB ram) and see if I could finish the edit there, and guess what? I was able to finish this monster of a project in about 30 minutes. For me this just proves the power of Apple Silicone, and I will be first in line to get a new next-gen top of the line iMac, or Mac Pro. If you want to see what 109 layers of video look like, let me know.

[@TheVoiceofReason4ya]

Wow!

[@applewaffles4781]

i want to see it!

[@thelouisbisson]

I just bought the 2020 iMac 3.6ghz i9 with 32gb of ram, did I shoot myself in the foot by not buying an M1 iMac?

[@Mave]

@@thelouisbisson would like to know that too

[@ericleemoore]

I want to see, can you please send a screenshot to my email?

[@sh1121]

A M1X space grey iMac Pro would be a perfect desktop for me! M1X will probably be able to render 10 videos at a time or something 😂

[@tobyal]

I also really hope apple introduce a Mac Pro, especially in slightly more subtle colours! 😂

[@YimYum911]

I’m gonna put an emoji for no reason 😂

[@suhrabrashidi296]

@@YimYum911 😂🤣

[@utubekullanicisi]

The high end configs of it will be able to play back 4 8K30fps videos in Final Cut. And that won’t even be Apple’s highest end SoC, that’ll be the M1Z with 32 high performance and 4-8 high efficiency cores, and 128 GPU cores. And maybe an even higher end SoC in the future, if the rumors Luke reported on are correct (128 CPU cores, 256 GPU cores).

[@MuhammadReza-xi5jw]

@@utubekullanicisi I wonder how big the actual silicon will be given how big (or small) their current M1 package is. It would have to be 16 times bigger for 128 cores alone I think, maybe less if it's at 2 or 3nm. But still, 128 cores is no joke. Just look at how big AMD Threadripper 3990X is with just 64 cores.

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Luke, I wasn’t surprised at all. That iMac Pro is a beast of a PC. I think you’ll switch back eventually to the iMac Pro eventually. See you soon iMac Pro. 😉

[@JuniorTechnoArtist]

No he Don’t do that

[@JuniorTechnoArtist]

Bye

[@WarriorsPhoto]

@@JuniorTechnoArtist I barely had a chance to say hello. 😂

[@titovalasques]

What this tells me is that tests like cinebench only gives you part of the result. There’s no substitute for real use tests.

[@jackyharuhiko]

Just re-visited the GeekBench browser and saw that the iMac Pro with 8-core CPU now has comparable (if not less) score than an iPad Pro, an entry level MacBook Air, an entry level MacBook Pro, and the base model iMac. Amazing.

[@babyboomertwerkteam5662]

Congrats on 300K subs! Been a fan of your channel since a few years ago! :)

[@eksmad]

I ordered purple, 512 GB, 8 Core GPU, 16 GB RAM. I think it will be my main computer for four or five years. :)

[@rrp6405]

purple looks really good imo

[@florider_hd]

5 years with 512gb?

[@eksmad]

@@florider_hd My current PC has 512 GB as well with about 160 GB free after exactly three years. So 256 GB wasn't an option for me. If 512 GB will not be enough, I'd buy an external SSD though, the "official" upgrades are way too expensive in my opinion.

[@NOSLEEPATALL]

I’ll actually look into this as it cost less than my new iPad Pro 🥺

[@matthewstott3493]

Now keep in mind, this M1 Apple Silicon SoC is the ENTRY LEVEL LOW POWER MODEL. Much more powerful System on Chip processors are on the way. It's expected that a new processor will be announced at WWDC on Jun 7th. More to come into 2022 and beyond.

[@mumble3535]

Seeing the old and new designs side by side really just reminds me how good the old design looks. Sure, the new one is thin as hell, but the old one still just looks better.

[@StaceChristopher]

PERIODDDDDDD the new one is ugly 😂😂😂😂 (the pro does look a lot better in general tho, like a beast, coz it is!)

[@DaffyTaffy93]

No way the old one looks ugly and basic

[@StaceChristopher]

@@DaffyTaffy93 the new ones looks like it’s made kids

[@Skywalker8510]

@@StaceChristopher that’s couse it kinda is. It’s not a pro model. It’s supposed to look appealing not industrial like iPad Air vs iPad Pro.

[@gazoodags2683]

the white bezels are definitely the way to go, it matches perfectly with the wall

[@guilleskitz]

Seeing this I want to wait a little bit for the M1X Mac but this makes me so excited for it

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Yeah exactly. Have you purchased a newer iMac?

[@sarahamaniampong1405]

Don’t wait, you’ll be disappointed

[@BilisNegra]

@@sarahamaniampong1405 Nobody can tell, but you might be right in the sense that models based on the next Apple ARM chip (M1X or whatever), will not replace M1's, but the top-end Intel-based ones. In other words, they will not have prices comparable to m1's, but constitute a more expensive tier in the range.

[@semahj]

It’s literally like two week wait just wait

[@WarriorsPhoto]

@@semahj Isn't it sooner now? (:

[@potato4987]

My mother walked by, saw you and said you could be the third property brother but for tech. Not sure what to say.

[@harrisonjr98]

I’ve never noticed that but wow it’s true lol

[@catherinedesrochers]

Many people thought I was crazy to sell my maxed out MBP 16" for a M1 MBA… Best decision ever 👏 Apple silicon is incredibly impressive

[@Metro6am]

I did the same!

[@E579Gaming]

I mean the maxxed out model is more powerful then M1 with 16GB, but I guess it wont die from over heating

[@vitalis]

8gb m1? or 16gb?

[@catherinedesrochers]

8gpu cores, 16gb with 1tb SSD

[@E579Gaming]

@@catherinedesrochers you can max out to 8TB and 64Gb but thats will a good configuration I get why you would get a M1

[@movingloz]

I spec’d the final Intel 27” iMac 🖥 to the max and iPad about $13,500.00 Australian Dollars 💸. I’d hate to think of what it’s value has gone down too now. 😢.

[@watrobkasmaczna1]

Intel really slowed Apple since 2015.

[@jackilynpyzocha662]

The green system would be great for St. Pat's Day!

[@willm5032]

Someone once called the new iMac an 'ipad on a stick' and I can't stop thinking about it I'm now torn between an iMac or a Mac Mini as my new work machine when I do upgrade, pretty rediculous performance for a base level iMac

[@ryanb55]

I love my intel Mac mini, once one comes out with a bit better IO and multi-monitor support, I will snag one.

[@jimkika]

yes. before we used to see differences on Mac computers and iMac used to be "the beast" now, iMac is just a fluffy-colored computer and all models (air, pro, mini...) deliver more or less the same result, bad for consumers to select one...

[@willm5032]

@@jimkika I actually kind of agree with you here. Like it is almost all entirely about form factor now.

[@willm5032]

@@ryanb55 I'm thinking the same. There's rumours/leaks about a redesigned mac mini which seems to be smaller and have better IO. Whats making me want an iMac is that I'm currently using a 2004 cinema display and there's no fucking way I'm going to bother doing a load of adapters to make it work with a 2021 machine...

[@Mr_MVpg394]

Congratulations 👏👏 for reaching 300k subscribe . We wish you to reach 500k subscribe in the end of the year

[@raymondlee1751]

My thoughts? Well, we don't have the luxury of getting a new iMac every time a new one comes out. The waiting game can't always be played by us.

[@NicolasBeaulieuQc]

My first Apple's purchase since 2009 will be the MBP 16'' M1X

[@RayTheVideoGuy]

If it wasn’t for the smaller 24” screen, I would already have sold my iMac Pro

[@xers6704]

@@Kierant2010 that's why he hasn't sold it yet.

[@wolfwarren6376]

I’m in pro audio and I’m still on an original cheesegrater. I’m waiting for things like pro tools, reason, and other audio production applications to come to M1 natively. Credit where credit is due to Rosetta, but I’m not ready to give up my reliable system for a translation layer right now. However, the videographer side of me is incredibly excited to get to work on an M1 iMac ASAP.

[@WhenWillILearn]

I’m getting that audio issue on my MacBook Air. Happens every couple of days. It fixes itself when I leave if for a minute or two - but it’s quicker to close and relaunch

[@AlvaroGutierrezRomero]

Here as well with a cMP 2010… FCPX issue not related with the Mac model for sure

[@WhenWillILearn]

@@AlvaroGutierrezRomero interesting. I don't get it on either of my other machines, weird!

[@ninay7685]

Hello, have the same problems. I try on several Mac m1, and it the same results....there is no sound when I move or work on rushes. it coms back when I quit and restart fop, or after several minutes....did you solve this problem?

[@jpdemer5]

You should get the M1 Mini and get the benefit of a bigger monitor - and a lot more ports.

[@Eccentric_Villain]

I’m so excited to get my mid tier iMac. God, it has been long awaited for something like this to come out from Apple. I was never a fan of the Intel memory as it seemed buggy and slow at best… I hadn’t upgraded for 7 years. I am so giddy with excitement to get back to editing videos and making art videos without losing quality (using just my iPad)

[@NIGELWC]

You have a marvellous on screen presence. You really should consider television or acting. Well done.

[@kyuuart]

Need the single core metrics between the Xeon and M1, I'm guessing it'll be a reverse blood bath.

[@borbetomagus]

The single core Geekbench benchmarks for the Intel Xeon W-2191B (released in late 2017) is 1067, while on the Apple M1 it is 1710 (approximately 60% faster). Passmark's CPU Benchmarks (with a Xeon W-2195) show similar single core benchmarks (2413 vs 3758; approximately 55% faster). The multi-core Geekbench benchmarks for the Intel Xeon W-2191B is 13356, while on the Apple M1 it is 7412 (approximately 45% slower). Passmark's CPU Benchmarks show similar multi-core benchmarks (27325 vs 15131; approximately 45% slower). Unless, my percentage estimations are mistaken....

[@JoTokutora]

Silly, I take the Mac Pro any day over that m1. Your playback is due to the m1 hardware encoders. But that doesn't work on all software. Now do some 3d modeling and other apps, exactly the M1 is not that great. The M1 is a great architecture for things it has been optimized

[@ToldbyNick]

That audio issue in FCP happens to me on my 2015 27” 5k iMac all the time lately. I think it’s an issue with the latest FCP version. Anyway, sweet video as always, Luke! Superior content lately

[@NoelCabana]

I'd like to buy one of those base model iMacs. Some day. Great video btw.

[@lachlanbrown8110]

Wait……. Do you actually use the Magic Mouse? I would have thought you’d use something like a Logitech MX series mouse.

[@riccardogavanelli1076]

he was testing the stock 1299$ package without an extra 100$ mx master

[@hddhdhxhxb1793]

@@riccardogavanelli1076 There’s a black one next to the iMac Pro

[@wilsoncolocho8591]

I don't understand how people can use the Magic Mouse, Keyboard and Trackpad. I have the three and I love them, but man they get so cold that the aluminum parts when I touch them feels like burning and are unusable to me for that reason :c

[@njbrx]

@@wilsoncolocho8591 what

[@hddhdhxhxb1793]

@@wilsoncolocho8591 you live in a freezer?

[@kristoffergrundstrom3112]

Good video, BUT wouldn't it be better to give the users a choice on what "Antivirus" client the customers should use? For instance I use Clamav and it's completely FREE of charge and about the scamming websites..... well....... I use Ublock origin which is also FREE of charge and best of all..... It's Open Source. Both of them. I'm just saying.

[@christopherhannan7858]

Nice review, it confirms my belief, that for my purpose (general PC use) the middle iMac configuration will be fine, although I am thinking of going for 16gb for a bit of future-proofing. Now those desk mats, what is the brand of the matching green one you place under the green iMac?

[@sayedfchy4646]

In 2023 - what would you suggest for day to day professional use: 1. i7 Intel iMac 2020 or 2. M1 iMac 2021

[@DNdavidsonsnation]

What about the screen size? Does it feel like it's too small to work on once you are used to 27"?

[@kyoukan91]

24" is definitely big enough but the 27" is much better IMO.

[@gabbodj95]

I think if you need a bigger display a Mac Mini + whatever you want is more cost-effective (you loose something, but you gain more ports an choice, and 8 gpu cores on the base model)

[@slizgi86]

ekhem, 2x 4K layers, (one speedup with blur), some composition and drop shadow you call A LOT!!!?? Excuse what? And btw the cost of that two extra USB-C, one A for god’s sake and SD card will cost apple probably 10usd...

[@timkline162]

What if instead of a base model you got one of the more higher end M1 iMacs? Would that have given you better ram and render times?

[@adam06]

and ports

[@ChaosMoogle]

If you can use the 24" iMac as a replacement for the iMac Pro that just means you OVER invested in the iMac Pro. You never actually used the iMac Pro as an iMac Pro, just as an iMac. Cause I LOVE the new iMacs but I can NOT replace my 27 inch with one. I KNOW the difference between 24 and Pro must be INSANE!

[@MrPirreE]

Now that those Mac’s also run iOS apps it would be fun edit an video in LumaFusion on the iMac.

[@JonDominguez_]

Why lol?

[@louiswhellem9954]

I can officially say he's lost his mind,that iMac pro wille literally rip the base model to bits and it's new

[@MF_OXF]

Wish tech tubers could get on the same page😂 Luke and several others claims and show that the M1 is fully capable for this kind of work whereas others trash it for being either slow or incapable of doing the same work/exports etc…

[@punnu5997]

mit tier Imac has 2 fans and a proper heatpipe, the base model only has one fan and its not even connected to a heatsink and pipe to the CPU, so the base model throttles when editing multiple streams of 4k video.

[@slowercuber7767]

(I think) you said blender was worsened by Rosetta. Please try your Blender bench again with the beta Universal or straight Apple silicon Blender version. I think you'll see some improvement (assuming it works, they were still missing some features a couple of weeks ago with I gave it a whirl). Thanks for this episode!

[@bynahelemaal]

I imagine they’ll do a 27” imac m1 pro that’ll be faster than the current pro?!

[@iuaislamf]

@15:00, I agree completely. It cannot be understated what Apple has designs on what's to come. The base 8gb ram is ok for now, but consumers will ultimately force Apple to boost the base model to minimum 16gb ram.

[@DeRock401]

I’m using the m1 Mac mini. My videos are far less complexed than yours, but I am loving it. Being able to actually edit 4k60 and not have to lower the resolution of the timeline is amazing. I’m still using Davinci resolve because it is what I know and works so good but I do have 3 months of Final Cut Pro installed but I’m not sure I want to try it cuz if I do end up liking it then that’s 300$ I gotta spend lol.

[@windowsxpprofessional]

Me: that's still more expensive then my full setup (5 times more)

[@liiillllliiilllliilllliii9461]

What are you running

[@Fredisaviewer]

I am impressed by this demonstration of what the 24 inch iMac can do. I can't say that I would buy it just yet for my workflow as the software I use (audio studio production Ableton Live) still does not officially support either the M1 chip nor Big Sur in general. I have friends who use the software on the M1 without issue, but I'm not going to take the leap until I know Ableton officially supports both Big Sur and the M1. To be fair to my point of view, I also have heard stories of where Ableton fails to consistently work on the M1; far more often I hear about users having no problem on that platform at all. I'm just not willing to take the risk. Also, I'm waiting for the larger screen version of the iMac because I'm getting older and Ableton squeezes a lot of info into it's screens, and my eyes need every advantage they can get. 😆

[@tylerstooksbury3050]

Question: if you only have 8gb of Ram in a M1 machine, is that comparable to 8gb in a Intel Mac? Or does your 8gbs go further with M1?

[@11saiyed]

go for 16 gb for 200$ 🤨10,000 vs 1,500 for so good pc m1 is so good old cpus are not good even for electricity

[@postbreak]

Now you can plug the speakers into that dock vs the iMac itself.

[@FOBob-sr1fd]

Not the base model. For $200 more you get two fans instead of one, more ports, Ethernet, and more color choices.

[@pgomez]

Have had my M1 Mac Mini for 6 months and edit in FCP every week. Have never had the audio issue.

[@GSteel-rh9iu]

I have issues with Airplay 2 audio to my ethernet wired speaker from an m1 mac mini; very annoying but the machine is glorious!

[@digithardt]

@Zain Uddin audio isn't rendered through a gpu

[@rosemaryhall5811]

Dude, haven't you learned that Apple wants you to buy all of the adapters? That's their real money maker!

[@erjacsk1294]

so true mom

[@gorangubic4567]

Apple fooled him when he bought the iMac Pro, but some people never learn.

[@eric3007]

Nope. Professionals need multiple cores, better gpu and ram. For FCP and content creators doing light video work like this guy, m1 is fine.

[@MetikalMan]

Subscription earned today. Great video.

[@Spamsgood]

meanwhile today my 2014 base Mac mini struggled with 5 tabs open in safari. that's with an SSD swap.

[@toxicityuser]

Get a ram swap and check activity monitor for other programs

[@kevcrid]

Is the base model iMac powerful enough for checking email?

[@ccrecordings]

Hey Luke! Super stoked how your channel has been growing over the last 2 years! Keep up the awesome work!

[@LucienSabre]

I love this iMac. 😍 Ever since it came out, I’ve been struggling to resist the tempation of buying it (to replace my 2019 non-retina iMac)….mostly because I already have both the MacBook Pro M1 (bought on Amazon) and MacBook Air M1 (won in a giveaway) and considering the use my family does of our “old” iMac, we don’t really need this new one. 🤗🤗

[@alexmighty9004]

I'll never ditch 18 cores for a blucking M1 8GB of ram. Export times mean more to me than anything. Using a proxy workflow for 4k is the way to go always. Going to wait for things to catch up before making the leap.

[@roguewavecreative]

Already (imac 8-8 with 16gb ram) using the imac at our agency. Here is my as RR would say Hot Take LOL. I really think going forward with Apple Sili when reviewing something you have to stop the benchmarks and realize that IF (of course this is not totally done yet and we finally booted Adobe and went to Affinity because as a native m1 app they run like snappy butter) the software is M1 ready you lean more on that vs cinebench or Cinnabun:). We are rendering 4k and even some 8k and it has been great. Thenperson here that does our videos is literally caprain video and knows these ways to speed it up and the render is very close to what we were getting on a imac pro we were renting. Personally I love the size on the new imac because and this is personal when I have ever had a huge screen or multiple screens it overwhelms me. Again personal. Also, yes I have had the issue with the audio. Not alot but sometimes. Usually you either reboot or you reset the audio. I contacted apple about it so of course they will fix it tomorrow:) Nice compare btw. At first I thought this was kinda silly but great job. To me what they have done is make it affordable to do work and make money from it. Remember when you would get the imac even in say 2019 and you would load up the ram and it still as rainbow balling. To be honest I think in our case alot of this was Adobe. Anyways keep up the great work and see you soon.

[@shlawchablaas]

I think personally I’d just sell the iMac Pro now or soon before the next model is announced, bank the ~$4k for the time being, and then consider upgrades or replacements to the base model upon next release.

[@SerPapus]

Congrats on 300k my boy

[@carbongaming8448]

love how for 2 videos now youve ignored the fact that you can get a *gasp* usb c to multi port adaptor for like $20-$50 from Best buy

[@alexshdvideo]

I’m not at all surprised at how well the M1 faired. Years ago I had a 2008 Mac Pro dual quad Xenon’s and picked up my 2014 MBP 15” with quad core intel i7 at about same mghz and less memory and the Nvidia 2g GPU.. it did laps around my 2008 dual quad (8 core) Xenon. So going from intel xenon to M1. Yeah, expect a lot. I’m holding off buying till the M1x comes out hopefully in a few weeks (announced anyway) for a Mac mini, but if it also comes in a upgraded iMac in green, I’ll have to really think about which way I’ll jump. A M1 right now would be huge for me, but if I can hold off for a few weeks or even a few months to get 10 core CPU and 16 or 32 core GPU and 32g or more memory.. you bet I’ll retire my laptop. :)

[@yorgeabouttstudio]

I saw this but today i forgot the thumbnail so i laughed out loud and then said Ight i gotta watch now

[@ChaosMoogle]

YOUR PLUG WAS TWO MINUTES IN?! Sorry, I can't finish this

[@DJTechYT]

I totally expected to say that you won't switch to the new iMac despite it being so good at 14:09, but woah. It's incredible that an entry level iMac can replace your Pro desktop that costs 9x more.

[@Girl02000]

Yeah I have the same issue with my M1 MacBook Pro and it's just random. I use FCPX most of the time for my Twitch channel past broadcasts, with a small edit for KZbin, and out of nowhere most of the time the end of the video (on FCPX) doesn't have any audio (and the audio spectrum is normal). I never have this issue on my Intel Mac Mini. I think it will be fixed by Apple, they must fix all the little annoyances if they want to push their silicon on the Pro market instead of Intel.

[@aravindsenthil5444]

Great Video, Luke. Exactly the content most of us want!

[@Marc-WOA]

I've got the audio loss issue on my M1 MacBook Air as well. It's mostly after a good long session of editing (maybe RAM related?). It kind of depends but 9 out of 10 times I'm using my bluetooth headphones and selecting the output source (speaker, then my headset again) can fix it. Though if it doesn't I'll have to do the same. Exit and re-open. Not very nice no. It doesn't happen often though. WAY less than Premiere crashing when I had my windows laptop before this one lol.

[@terryclair2914]

Nice review that I really appreciated. I would like to see the M1 chip perform some 2D and 3D CAD work.

[@OhMyPoBoy]

I use my m1 for CAD work in school and it performs great. Big upgrade over my aging 2013 macbook air it replaced

[@dougsteel7414]

It's quite depressing in a way. Sold my £1800 macbook pro to buy a bleeding £900 macbook air. And it works better. I almost didn't want it to