New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac

Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac by smackfu on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @09:58AM (#7910092)

Well, at this point in time, the Mac mini is pretty old tech. It was last updated in 2012 and has an Ivy Bridge CPU and Intel HD 4000 graphics and 802.11n. The iMac is the next gen, so it has a Haswell CPU, Intel HD 5000 graphics, and 802.11ac.

Also, I think buying your own external display that is the same quality as the iMac one would be more expensive than people think... but then , most people don't need that good a display.

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Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac by papercrane on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @10:20AM (#7910218)

The Haswell CPU in the iMac is still slower then the Ivy Bridge CPU in the Mac mini. The IPC boost from Ivy Bridge to Haswell isn't enough to make up the difference in clock rate. HD5000 is a decent upgrade though.

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Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac by stephencanon on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @12:13PM (#7910902)

That depends heavily on the workload. For optimized floating-point code, Haswell is a beast (16 double precision flops per core per cycle, vs 8 for Ivybridge).

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Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac by judk on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @01:08PM (#7911232)

For 95% of consumers, all Apple CPUs are phenomenally overpowered.

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