27" iMac ... back to the future?

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SpartanVXL

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#2739816 6-Jul-2021 16:37

It really depends what you want to run on it. M1 is still ARM in a x86 prosumer world. I believe most of that market had a reason for switching to windows (or trying to hackintosh) with custom hardware given that Apple didn’t seem to really provide a product to perform in that space.

If you’re not doing anything over the top then the mini M1 is a good choice now. Otherwise wait or jump on a 5950x and have it do whatever you need.

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#2741963 9-Jul-2021 18:24

I have the same late 2014 iMac and it has started acting up, so just using it for monitoring of servers at the moment.

Have a M1 MacBook Air and a LG 27" 4K screen. This is my main setup until Apple releases the iMac 27" M-something with more RAM, more GPU and more CPU cores than the current M1 Macs.

Don't really see any major upside to having a Mac Mini in addition, but if it works for you then why not.

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#2749886 26-Jul-2021 12:19

I have a 2013 MacBook Pro that I've used on Big Sur even though it's not compatible. Normally I don't go for these type of patchers but this time the approach the OpenCore have used is different. All I had to was install the OpenCore Legacy Patcher and it replaced my Boot Loader with OpenCore. Made a Big Sur USB, booted from it, wiped the machine to APFS (don't use encrypted) and installed it. Since it was boot time patches everything that wasn't supposed to work did work (Wi-Fi was great too) and it ran as stable as Catalina.

Just a tip to eek a bit more life out, Big Sur is a great OS.

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