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Originally Posted by Deschodt
Most of the iMacs / Minis run fine initially but turn into dogs after one or two OS X updates... if i was a conspiracy theory guy I'd say they build in obsolescence with each OS release, but then again they don't release new models, so....
My 2014 mini which would run Photoshop Ok initially now takes a minute to open it.... and there is nothing newer to buy....
I've re-installed it from scratch and it make surprisingly little difference for all the work... you have to perform major surgery (see below) to add memory and SSD, that helps but its still an older processor...
Just saying it would not kill them to refresh desktops more often than every 2 or 3 years... "buy a laptop" is not the solution for all... Again, I'm fine with it *if* that's the way they are going, I need to switch to Windoze then - but I'd like to know for sure... i have a track record for buying Macs 2 weeks before a new model comes out... |
What are they supposed to refresh with?
Intel Skylake came out in mid 2015. Same 14 nm process as predecessor Broadwell. Successor Kabylake desktop processors were delayed from 2016 to Jan 2017. Same 14 nm process as Broadwell and Skylake, same core performance, same MHz, very few improvements unless you're doing something exotic and expensive like Optane memory. So from mid 2015 to early 2017, there simply has been no new Intel desktop processor for Apple to build a new iMac around, and now that there is a new one, it isn't hardly better than the old one.
Intel is simply stalled out. It used to significantly improve desktop processor performance every year, now it makes only a minor improvement every two years. Intel is hitting the wall on process shrinks, it hasn't figured out a way to get back on its old improvement curve, and it is more focused on laptop and server CPUs than on desktop CPUs.
This is an Intel problem. A pretty serious one. For Apple, it is also a problem. Not a big one, but not one they can do anything about. At least, not until they give up on Intel and start making their own Mac processors. Which may not make sense.
If you want to speed up your 2015 iMac, install 16 GB DRAM and SSD.