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I have acquired a Late 2012 iMac and hooked it up in lieu of my gaming desktop to force myself to learn my work flow on it. It will help me with end user support as well as finally getting to try out iOS development. Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro as well as Office, OneDrive, PHPstorm, all work on both platforms.
I am a firm believer that there is no difference in performance over time or support between "PC and Mac". So far this thing has not shown me I am wrong. But I honestly hope to find some improvement in it as well. I wiped it, did an internet recovery (oops). Upgraded from mountain lion to high sierra. Added my bare minimum compliment of applications. Learned quite a few things in the first couple of days.
The iMac is an i5-3470s (2.9Ghz) with 8GB of DDR3. GeForce GT 650M. While I have a newer desktop my comparison is my old, now my wifes custom built rig. It has an i5-2500K with 16GB of DDR3 started out on Windows 7 then 8.1 now 10. Still on a mechanical drive like the mac and that's always a performance issue with 10.
I get that MacOS displays progress to the user differently. This is something that in operating systems and applications is easy to get wrong and make something fast look slow. So I try to be patient and pay attention to the differences. But this thing is slow. I am using Chrome not Safari which isn't the greatest on ram consumption but I am keeping an eye on that in Activity Monitor. It varies but it's slower than I am used to and Netflix the quality is looking like crap in comparison. Usually we blame networking for this but it's consistently worse on the mac. I haven't tried using their app (i think they have one) yet. Adobe Premiere Pro is actually running fairly well considering it doesn't have a high end gpu to accelerate it.
Siri is running SLOW. It will open and and type out what I say fairly quickly. Sometimes it takes a long time to terminate listening. Results return at a decent speed. In comparison to google on an android phone this is usually all connection related. But it will take 15-30 seconds before Siri reads out whatever the results were. Long after doing such is relevant to me. I would expect reading to me would be local, unlike listening which is usually processed in the cloud. Is there any known issues, fixes, things to look for?
I am a firm believer that there is no difference in performance over time or support between "PC and Mac". So far this thing has not shown me I am wrong. But I honestly hope to find some improvement in it as well. I wiped it, did an internet recovery (oops). Upgraded from mountain lion to high sierra. Added my bare minimum compliment of applications. Learned quite a few things in the first couple of days.
The iMac is an i5-3470s (2.9Ghz) with 8GB of DDR3. GeForce GT 650M. While I have a newer desktop my comparison is my old, now my wifes custom built rig. It has an i5-2500K with 16GB of DDR3 started out on Windows 7 then 8.1 now 10. Still on a mechanical drive like the mac and that's always a performance issue with 10.
I get that MacOS displays progress to the user differently. This is something that in operating systems and applications is easy to get wrong and make something fast look slow. So I try to be patient and pay attention to the differences. But this thing is slow. I am using Chrome not Safari which isn't the greatest on ram consumption but I am keeping an eye on that in Activity Monitor. It varies but it's slower than I am used to and Netflix the quality is looking like crap in comparison. Usually we blame networking for this but it's consistently worse on the mac. I haven't tried using their app (i think they have one) yet. Adobe Premiere Pro is actually running fairly well considering it doesn't have a high end gpu to accelerate it.
Siri is running SLOW. It will open and and type out what I say fairly quickly. Sometimes it takes a long time to terminate listening. Results return at a decent speed. In comparison to google on an android phone this is usually all connection related. But it will take 15-30 seconds before Siri reads out whatever the results were. Long after doing such is relevant to me. I would expect reading to me would be local, unlike listening which is usually processed in the cloud. Is there any known issues, fixes, things to look for?