LTT did a lot of things right here.
i've been using Macs Fan Control for about as long as i've been using Mac's and it's an amazing app. it keeps my MacBook from burning my skin if i have it on my lap lmao. good on LTT for giving it some exposure.
and also good on them for comparing it to a PC and proving that the price is good for the hardware you get, especially if you consider just how much amazing software you get for free if you buy a Mac. (Pages, iMovie and Garageband are good examples)
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I'm actually a little bit impressed with this iMac, to be honest.
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They finally stopped using mobile chips in their consumer desktops. Congratulations, Apple...
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@TopHatProductions115 what are you talking about? even if you go way back to the stone age Apple used desktop chips in the iMac.
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-2.7-21-inch-aluminum-late-2012-specs.html
this one has an i5 3330S, which is a desktop chip.
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@firelighter487 Go back to 2006/2008. I was there, right after the G5 era. Leopard remembers. Snow Leopard never forgets...
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@TopHatProductions115 sure. but to say that they finally stopped using mobile chips in consumer desktops is not correct. the oldest supported iMac (the Late 2012) uses a desktop chip. if you go further back sure those were mobile chips but they are obsolete now and no longer supported.
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@firelighter487 The point is, it took them long enough that I stopped using Apple desktops all together. The statement wasn't made toward you, but towards Apple's slowness to advance.
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@TopHatProductions115 iirc what they did in those days was take a macbook mobo, put a dgpu on it and put it in an imac. like the specs between the white iMac's and the white MacBooks were really similar in terms of cpu and ram configurations.
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@firelighter487 They did it from 2006-2008, then started pushing Desktop Core 2's in 2009 (like this one):
That was when they finally got serious about the switch to Intel (from POWER) IMO. 2010 was Core iX (3, 5, 7) full-swing
2009-2010 were the better years, because they finally started treating the iMac well again. But, with prices in the thousands for a Core 2 Duo (did they even allow Core 2 Quad in their lineups?), they made it a hard sell for someone like me. Only Core Extreme seemed worth it 
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@TopHatProductions115 Imac’s Were expensive... you could get a core 2 duo Mac mini and not spend as much.
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@firelighter487 But they still had the same mobile chips iirc, didn't they? And I needed GPU compute back then as well...
2009-2010 were the better years, because they finally started treating the iMac well again. But, with prices in the thousands for a Core 2 Duo (did they even allow Core 2 Quad in their lineups?), they made it a hard sell for someone like me. Only Core Extreme seemed worth it