This iMac is covered by AppleCare, by an insurance and also is new enough to be fixed under 'right of complaint', but the various problems I have with it are still not fixed, meaning that I've lost three months* – and the shop + Apple says that it needs to be sent to a repair company three times before the right to cancel the purchase is valid – and the first time took a month (they didn't fix anything). I purchased a similar iMac in early October (or thought I did), since I wanted something I could start to use immediately, but this was a secondhand purchase. If two years should be counted from when the first M1 chip Macs were launched, that would be November this year, so maybe buying an Intel Mac would be a good choice for you as well. Yet, many major products (Cubase, NI Kontakt, the software needed to use iLoks etc) still aren't AS native, so I think buying a top-end 2020 iMac was a wise move. But they also said that the transition would take two years when the M1 Macs was launched in November 2020. What I am wondering is if I am passing up a good opportunity with a 2020 iMac.Īpple announced a transition to Apple Silicon in 22 June 2020, and said, IIRR, that the transition to AS would be completed in two years, which would be June 2022. I can wait a few months for a new 2022 Apple Silicon 27" iMac. The advantages in the new MacBook Pros are compelling in that form factor. Whatever the problem is with AS chips, hopefully it can be addressed in software, but as of yet, it is an Intel Mac advantage ġ) Longevity - newest MacOS will probably be upgradable for longerĬooler and lower power consumption AS chips don't matter as much in a desktop. An Intel 27" iMac cuts costs if you buy your own RAMģ) external thunderbolt speeds are slightly better. I was thinking of these advantages for Intel:ġ) Upgradeable RAM - in music, RAM is often more important than top end processor performance. Sometimes the end of a model has the kinks worked out, whereas a new model comes with new unanticipated problems.
Furthermore, he said he has had good luck with Intel over the years. I went through the virtues of Apple Silicon (AS) and showed him a 24" iMac, but he really wanted the larger screen and he didn't want to wait.
Yesterday I helped my dad purchase a top-end 2020 27" iMac.
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