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!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Congrats on 300k Luke ur the best channel to watch for information

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

Congrats on 300k!

Well done. This was very helpful. I’m currently using a Late 2015 27” iMac and really looking forward to upgrading it especially for editing videos. What you showed here is very encouraging and would definitely be a step up from what I have now but I’m holding out for the larger screen and hoping for the M1X or whatever they decide to call the upgraded computers won’t be available until the end of 2021.

Awesome video! Love your channel, and the videos you make!

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.

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.

I got a M1, 16 RAM, 2 TB MacMini on a Ultrafine 5K. I also use the same Anker hub you have in your video. I absolutely love it for video editing and I think I'm set for years to come with this setup.

Good job Luke. Personally I really enjoy your vids and analysis. Fantastic comparison, thanks again

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

Congrats on 300K! been here since

Congrats on 300k man love your video’s 👍🏻

Love the video LukeM! Keep up the awesome work!!

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

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

Excellent down to earth real life (no waffling) honest video of the iMac 24 Vs iMac 27 pro. I'm sold, in fact I have ordered one with extra ports and 16gb ram.

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.

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

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!

Waiting for a 2022 iMac purchase. Thank you for your reviews!

The review I’ve been looking for! Subscribed.

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

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

Thank you for not trashing the M1 iMac for being slower like other channels have. Like you say, $10,000 machine vs. $1300 machine. Some other reviewers have been comparing it like it's the same price! For my uses, all I want is a computer than can keep up with my spreadsheets, word documents, music, web browsing etc. Nothing more. I am not patient, so I need something fast and responsive. My needs changed, and I sold my Mac Book Air M1 as soon as this came out, and I got my hands on one. This is my first ever iMac - having owned 3 MacBook Airs over the last 10 years. Must say, I am happily throwing away my old PC speaker system, and selling the second screen I used to have. The 23.5" display is more than enough space for me not to need two screens, and like you I am super happy with the design of it. I did go for the £1,649 model, purely because I wanted 512 storage, but that's more for longevity for me. Also, I wanted the extra ports, and now understand it has an extra fan also. Perhaps the base model would have been fine, but this year my business has done well, and I have the funds to pay - of course it's offset against my tax :)

*300K!* Congratulations!

(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!

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)

This is so useful I’m new to iMacs and deliberating between older models and the latest at entry level I guess there is absolutely no argument.

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

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

@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.

I've had the sound issue also. Here's the scoop: -Running an M1 macbook Pro, 8-core GPU, 16GB, 1TB -I live in Logic Pro X; 8-10 hours per week -issue occurred twice since November '20; mid action, sound drops, no explanation -solution was to restart Macbook (issue occured across apps and sound was dropped while streaming vids in Safari) Luke, you're a boss! Love your work, man!

Congratulations on 300k! Also how is your day/night/noon going? :D

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?

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

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!

Good video, Luke. I have just recently begun running Resolve on my Minimac M1. Yes, audio problem here like you have experienced. I had to restart to get audio back.

My boy out here looking like a dad with that shirt

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

Guess this new iMac fits for more casual users with that design and colour options and as an added advantage the power of M1!!! Love your videos !!

Great review. It seems the on die RAM is more like a fast L2 cache that's keeping thing moving, if they can make that system work with some proper off die RAM then we'll be in business.

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!

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.

Luke, you did a great job with your channel and your presentation of the M1 Macs have intrigued me. If I wanted to try Mac OS, would you recommend to buy the Mac Mini now or wait for the possible upgrade?

Congrats 300K !,!!

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. 😉

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

I bought 2 macbook air(for my wife and me) in november to replace my 2014 fully specced MacBook Pro for video editing for our small KZfaq channel. Couldn’t have made better change. It’s blazing fast, no noise. A lot lighter to travel… but we noticed on our first video the audio problem u mentioned. It’s annoying Apple hasn’t fixed it since launch of M1 Macs. Great channel Luke! And nice change of decor 😁 Bjorn

Amazing! 300k subs good job!

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

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

I'm glad to see that the reviews of the M1 are finally pointing out some of the problems.

Congrats for 300k Subs!

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

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

Love the 24” design. My only qualm is I have a 27” Thunderbolt 2.5K Display so if a baseline larger iMac with 16 Gb is available b4 end of year for say $600 to $700 more than a similar memory/ ssd capacity then I would be all in! My 2012 15” hi-res MacBook Pro is still going strong. But using the Thunderbolt Display with a similarly sized larger iMac would be stunning! Great channel🙏🏻

Congratulations to a new iMac 2021, dear Luke!

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

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

First off, I appreciate your non-biased point of view when you make videos like this, Luke. Second, I have a similarly spec'd custom PC (the build is almost 2 years old at this point) to your iMac Pro I use that's connected to my 49" 4k LG SmartTV (webOS and all that) for when I wanna play certain game consoles I have (to stream/consume content on a large screen etc) and it's fast... It's got a Ryzen 9 3900X with 32 GB of RAM and I dual boot with Windows 10 and Void Linux (Void Linux being my main/preferred OS most of the time. I have Win10 there for emergencies/testing/convenience). I also recently got an M1 Mac mini (mid tier I guess?) with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD storage onboard. I have an 8TB drive connected over USB (non-C) for storage for projects I'm doing. I use BlackMagic Design DaVinci Resolve as my NLVE (NonLinearVideoEditor) of choice because I grew up using the various versions of Adobe Premiere basically since version 1 and Resolve has a similar layout at least in my eyes. I've also not bothered to learn FCP properly, but maybe some day I will. It's M1 optimized and it works great. With all that said, this Ryzen 9 is NO SLOUCH WHATSOEVER.. If I have to or need to edit/render some video on here (using the open-source and up and coming NLVE called Olive, since Resolve hates certain Linux distros) with my slightly older AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB (this machine is hilariously all AMD) I have a great time doing it. Now granted, I've not done any strict benchmarking between my two powerhouse machines, but when it comes to my M1 mini I was able to export my unboxing video of it (13 min of footage 1080p footage, but still footage) in like 5-6 min or something like that. My Ryzen 9 here with its 12 cores and 24 threads would probably do it faster, but the M1 platform is no slouch either. I'm happy with both systems, but if I had to choose one and only one I'd totally go with my M1 Mac mini partially because I like macOS given I grew up watching it evolve into what it's become today, and because it's not Windows.... lol joking aside thank you for making this video. It was very interesting to watch. Keep em coming! Congrats on breaching 300k subs! You deserve it! I'll keep watching! I ain't goin' nowhere. lol :)

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

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

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?

I’ve been having that audio issue too. At least once per editing session. I’m using the M1 Air.

It's amazing to see this level of performance

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

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

Loved this video!

Always enjoy your videos Luke, so much info and just like you I love my Apple stuff. Wish I could afford buying more Apple stuff.

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

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 😂

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Insane! I love editing FCP on my M1 Mac mini, but didn't expect it to be a better overall experience then editing on a iMac Pro. Great video! I see now why Apple discontinued iMac Pro right away....intel in now just an embarrassment to them, lol

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.

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

Great lighting my dude. :)

I have had the same issue with listening/watching to KZfaq videos and I had it when listening to music on Spotify too.

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?

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

Congo 300k big fan since your 17 subs

Yes! I’ve had the same audio issues in final cut that you’re talking about! For me I am hooked up to an external LG monitor, when I flip the audio from internal to the external monitor and back again that can also trigger it to resume Playback as normal. That doesn’t work every time, so I also have to quit the program and re-open final cut again. My videos are pretty simple, But I thought maybe it was because I have the 8 GB memory MacBook Air.

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

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.

Bought mine. Will be here tomorrow 🥰🥰 can’t wait 😝

Congratulations on 300,000 subscribers

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.

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.

Whoa! Thanks for the information!

I sometimes have an audio issue on my MacBook Pro 2019 and going to the Audio-MIDI-Settings and change the "Format" back and forth works for me most of the time. Just a suggestion for improvement for the graphs you showed on your latest videos: It would be easier to interpret them more quickly, if you would add something like a "< is better" or "> is better" or anything in this direction to the heading (or below). Oh yeah, btw: Contragratulations to 300k subscribers. :party: