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what's up everyone jon rettinger technobuffalo here have a lot of questions about the new imacs particularly about the core i7 processor the solid-state drive and whether or not those upgrades are worth the price so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it head-to-head with my older about three and a half year old imac it's got a 2.94 intel core 2 duo chip it's got four gigs around was pretty loaded back in the day the new one here's got a intel core i7 it's got eight gigs of ram and it's got a relatively new ati radeon graphics card so sort of to keep things fair the imac on the left has a fresh install of OS 10 on it and the new imac on the ride is still only about two weeks old so pretty fresh first let's go ahead and do a boot up and see if there's any sort of speed difference here I'm gonna go ahead and try and turn both these on at the same time and see if we can tell the difference alright so they're both turned on let's see if one boots quicker the imac boots off its solid state drive not the two terabyte spinning drive that has in there as well all the operating system and applications come from the hard drive itself you can see differencing the screens the screen on the imac on the right the new one is much brighter there it is already booted up ready to go the imac on the left is still loading this is one of the areas where i really noticed difference is speed bin boot up time the other area which i'll show you is video import time is significantly improved on the new imac on the older outgoing model here if you want to import a video that was say five minutes into imovie and there it goes just loaded that was about five minutes in imovie the import time would take about eight and nine minutes on the new imac import a five-minute clip takes generally about 45 seconds to a minute so when you do as much video as i do that time really adds up so those two things i have definitely been worthwhile video export time the difference is not that much so exporting a five minute edited in rendered clip in 720p would take maybe about 14 to 15 minutes on the outgoing model on the newer model that's cut down by about four or five minutes and generally would probably take about seven or eight minutes to render so it is definitely quicker art so you've got both of them up here and loaded let's go ahead and see how they do loading some applications all rights we're going to go ahead and launch some like applications here and see if there's any sort of difference one kind of funny thing i'm giving this old imac to my parents and you can notice they are probably one of the few people in the world that still use AOL like the actual AOL software is what they're used to so i did a fresh install i'll put this on here for I just thought it's funny that they're probably the four people on the planet still using AOL so let's go ahead and open up some popular applications let's start with Firefox and do that on each get it set right here in both the same time we'll go ahead and see the difference loading up the browser so load it up certainly much quicker on the newer imac still going here and now it's done go ahead and quit up quit it here too let's go ahead and open one of the ilab applications let's go ahead and launch something like iMovie actually i did not install my life on this computer for my parents let's go ahead and launch any different let's launch microsoft word which relies on bit of older the Rosetta type architecture let's go ahead and open both of these see the tangy syrup noticeable difference so immediately the splash screen shows up much quicker and now it's loaded here on a new iMac and it's still loading on the older one there goes and now it's loaded on both go ahead and quit that let's go ahead and try let's say one more application let's try something simple like about the calculator so actually not let's try dashboard and see how quickly or slowly something like dashboards get a load so go ahead and grab it here are already right here and we'll see if this is any difference so about the same pretty quick baggage this is a very unscientific test early shows any different students to computers I can't tell you need to see it right here that everything that happens on the new imac is just faster the video rendering times are really what was important to me importing and exporting we came out a video that idea being able to stay five six seven eight sometimes upwards of ten minutes per video putting up you know two videos per day is you know 20 minutes per day really does add up serving over the course of weeks and months so actually having the space as well you guys may have heard I've lost a few external hard drives we mailed it back up redundantly and I be able to back up on the two terabyte drive here and have a stored on external drive as absolutely fantastic also a lot of people have been asking to about the new my Mac how it works and how it looks with I'll go ahead move is right here and how it looks with the solid state drive and the built-in spinning drive I think it shows up as two hard drives there's one SSD and if you go to see that right there that's where all the applications are stored and there was another one that I named internal what really came completely blank had to terabytes of storage on it and I just been using it for for backup purposes I don't open joy this comparison between the two imax to see the difference for my folks I think that the outgoing I'm a can be fantastic it's going to be a really fast computer for them for my needs and certainly trying to get into the Final Cut type things i think the new imac is really going to serve me well and i'm very excited to keep using it and i guess i'm jon rettinger from technobuffalo and i'll see you in the next video bye bye