stevevp
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Many thanks for all the previous advice on the thread which I hijacked a bit here: imac 27" fans when in full screen. I thought I should start a new thread.
I took delivery of my new iMac on 9 January with the following specs:
4.2 GHz Quad‑Core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4,5 GHz)
8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 (now 40GB)
1 TB SSD
Radeon Pro 580 8 GB
I was immediately struck with the fan noise - the fan comes on when I’m using Lightroom even under what I would have thought would be a fairly minor load and (compared to my old PC which had a “quiet” case and was under my desk) the noise is right “in your face”. A few edits with the brush tool, spot removal and cropping and the fan pretty much starts up to order. Is this really that intensive? There is also quite a bit of hesitation and I see the beach ball spinning about as much as I saw its equivalent on my 6 year old PC. That had 16GB RAM. I have this afternoon installed the additional 32GB Crucial RAM I received this morning for a total of 40GB RAM - all recognised in the “About this MAC” memory tab - and it’s no better.
I am really not happy with this and I’m not sure where I go next. I seem to have a few options:
1) Live with it.
2) Live with it and stop using Lightroom if that's the problem (not ideal as I’m somewhat tied into it).
3) Return the iMac and buy a base model iMac Pro and risk similar heat/noise problems - has anyone seen a genuine user review of the iMac Pro rather than the prelaunch previews?
4) Return the iMac and try and find a suitable PC - my previous one was built to order but had extensive teething problems which I prefer to avoid although it eventually got sorted, largely by me. I'm not up to building one from scratch myself so I guess it’s a Dell off the shelf …
Grateful any learned thoughts. This is all quite painful (and expensive)!
I took delivery of my new iMac on 9 January with the following specs:
4.2 GHz Quad‑Core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4,5 GHz)
8 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 (now 40GB)
1 TB SSD
Radeon Pro 580 8 GB
I was immediately struck with the fan noise - the fan comes on when I’m using Lightroom even under what I would have thought would be a fairly minor load and (compared to my old PC which had a “quiet” case and was under my desk) the noise is right “in your face”. A few edits with the brush tool, spot removal and cropping and the fan pretty much starts up to order. Is this really that intensive? There is also quite a bit of hesitation and I see the beach ball spinning about as much as I saw its equivalent on my 6 year old PC. That had 16GB RAM. I have this afternoon installed the additional 32GB Crucial RAM I received this morning for a total of 40GB RAM - all recognised in the “About this MAC” memory tab - and it’s no better.
I am really not happy with this and I’m not sure where I go next. I seem to have a few options:
1) Live with it.
2) Live with it and stop using Lightroom if that's the problem (not ideal as I’m somewhat tied into it).
3) Return the iMac and buy a base model iMac Pro and risk similar heat/noise problems - has anyone seen a genuine user review of the iMac Pro rather than the prelaunch previews?
4) Return the iMac and try and find a suitable PC - my previous one was built to order but had extensive teething problems which I prefer to avoid although it eventually got sorted, largely by me. I'm not up to building one from scratch myself so I guess it’s a Dell off the shelf …
Grateful any learned thoughts. This is all quite painful (and expensive)!
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