Do you think an M1 iMac could replace your current Mac? Why or why not? Also, check out TotalAV at www.totalav.com/lukemiani to get their antivirus suite for $19 per year!

The fact that it is even comfortable to edit 4k with this thing is impressive

Love how you actually show your FCPX timeline/editing workflow and the specific cuts to where you encounter issues. This video gives out a relatable kind of feeling.

Hey Luke! Super stoked how your channel has been growing over the last 2 years! Keep up the awesome work!

It would be interesting to see how the M1 iMac would compare if you had opted for the 16 Gig model.

Just shows how well the Hardware and Software works together! The next 27" iMac (or it's replacement) is going to be epic! M1X or whatever it will be called!

Congrats on 300K subs! Been a fan of your channel since a few years ago! :)

Been editing with the M1 since the mini came out. It's just minor stuff for me but it still works very well.

Thx for pointing out the inside difference between the base and higher tier iMac, saved me from making a huge mistake

I’m still so proud of Jonah for moving on from the tv show Superstore & getting a job in Tech. He’s come a long way.

Congrats on 300k man love your video’s 👍🏻

Congrats on 300k!

I find it pretty impressive that te new iMacs can do almost anything the expensive pro models can. This tech is a game changer

Great video. I guess over a decade of optimizing Apple Silicon to function under all the constraints of being inside an iPhone shows up in the performance of the user interface. The other main differentiator is the way improved hardware implemented CODECS for more recent 4K (and 8K) video formats. If you had the Big MacPro tower or a Windows box, you could update the graphics card every year and those 18 Xeon cores would do everything you need for the next 15 years. Obviously what Apple’s done with an iPhone SOC in their entry level computers is impressive. By the end of 2022 when they’ve migrated their pro line to more workstation like CPU cores, it might be time to replace your Xeon iMacPro.

Congrats on 300k Luke ur the best channel to watch for information

Great Video, Luke. Exactly the content most of us want!

Congrats on 300K! been here since

Proud to be in a family of 300k . Keep on the great work.

Love the video LukeM! Keep up the awesome work!!

I get the Audio problem on fcp on a MacBook M1 pretty much every time I edit a video - very annoying I have to restart like you did

That audio issue in FCP happens to me on my 2015 27” 5k iMac all the time lately. I think it’s an issue with the latest FCP version. Anyway, sweet video as always, Luke! Superior content lately

Nice review, it confirms my belief, that for my purpose (general PC use) the middle iMac configuration will be fine, although I am thinking of going for 16gb for a bit of future-proofing. Now those desk mats, what is the brand of the matching green one you place under the green iMac?

*300K!* Congratulations!

Good job Luke. Personally I really enjoy your vids and analysis. Fantastic comparison, thanks again

I am not surprised about the performance. Over the weekend, I was editing a virtual choir video that has 109 videos. 80% of them are 1080P and the rest 720P.. 95% of these videos have color correction and other effects. At the end of the editing process I have ALL 109 videos on screen at the same time, there are 4 compound clips, that are inside of a 4 quadrant effect (that has an animation). I was originally editing this on my 2019 iMac 3.6 i9 with 40GB of ram. Can you imagine how much fun it was to edit this video in that situation. Well after hours of waiting around to do anything I decided to pack this up, move the project to my M1 MBP (8GB ram) and see if I could finish the edit there, and guess what? I was able to finish this monster of a project in about 30 minutes. For me this just proves the power of Apple Silicone, and I will be first in line to get a new next-gen top of the line iMac, or Mac Pro. If you want to see what 109 layers of video look like, let me know.

My boy out here looking like a dad with that shirt

I’m using the m1 Mac mini. My videos are far less complexed than yours, but I am loving it. Being able to actually edit 4k60 and not have to lower the resolution of the timeline is amazing. I’m still using Davinci resolve because it is what I know and works so good but I do have 3 months of Final Cut Pro installed but I’m not sure I want to try it cuz if I do end up liking it then that’s 300$ I gotta spend lol.

I got a M1, 16 RAM, 2 TB MacMini on a Ultrafine 5K. I also use the same Anker hub you have in your video. I absolutely love it for video editing and I think I'm set for years to come with this setup.

I saw this but today i forgot the thumbnail so i laughed out loud and then said Ight i gotta watch now

Can’t imagine how the new iMac Pro powered by a Apple Silicone would behave !!!!

Luke, you did a great job with your channel and your presentation of the M1 Macs have intrigued me. If I wanted to try Mac OS, would you recommend to buy the Mac Mini now or wait for the possible upgrade?

Hey, working and cutting on fcpx on a m1 macmini with 16gigs of ram. I DONT have that weird audio problem thankfully.

I wanna see the long term review for this model and the mid tier to see how they hold up and if 16gb of RAM would be necessary

Now you can plug the speakers into that dock vs the iMac itself.

Excellent down to earth real life (no waffling) honest video of the iMac 24 Vs iMac 27 pro. I'm sold, in fact I have ordered one with extra ports and 16gb ram.

Thank you for not trashing the M1 iMac for being slower like other channels have. Like you say, $10,000 machine vs. $1300 machine. Some other reviewers have been comparing it like it's the same price! For my uses, all I want is a computer than can keep up with my spreadsheets, word documents, music, web browsing etc. Nothing more. I am not patient, so I need something fast and responsive. My needs changed, and I sold my Mac Book Air M1 as soon as this came out, and I got my hands on one. This is my first ever iMac - having owned 3 MacBook Airs over the last 10 years. Must say, I am happily throwing away my old PC speaker system, and selling the second screen I used to have. The 23.5" display is more than enough space for me not to need two screens, and like you I am super happy with the design of it. I did go for the £1,649 model, purely because I wanted 512 storage, but that's more for longevity for me. Also, I wanted the extra ports, and now understand it has an extra fan also. Perhaps the base model would have been fine, but this year my business has done well, and I have the funds to pay - of course it's offset against my tax :)

I’m so excited to get my mid tier iMac. God, it has been long awaited for something like this to come out from Apple. I was never a fan of the Intel memory as it seemed buggy and slow at best… I hadn’t upgraded for 7 years. I am so giddy with excitement to get back to editing videos and making art videos without losing quality (using just my iPad)

You know you’re early when not even luke miani has 500 views 😂 congrats on 300k btw

I've had the sound issue also. Here's the scoop: -Running an M1 macbook Pro, 8-core GPU, 16GB, 1TB -I live in Logic Pro X; 8-10 hours per week -issue occurred twice since November '20; mid action, sound drops, no explanation -solution was to restart Macbook (issue occured across apps and sound was dropped while streaming vids in Safari) Luke, you're a boss! Love your work, man!

Congratulations on 300k! Also how is your day/night/noon going? :D

I recently did some color work on a video in Davinci Resolve with my base M1 MBP. It took about 2 hours 30 minutes to render. Curious to see how it would compare, I rendered the same job with my high performance "gaming" PC that has an overclocked water-cooled Core i7, RTX 2080 Super, 32 GB RAM, and a 1TB 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD. I figured the PC would finish _slightly_ faster and that would be a testament to how amazing it was that my little MBP could keep up with this huge, custom built, water cooled behemoth. I couldn't have been more wrong. DaVinci estimated that it was going to take _over 11 hours_ for the PC to render the exact same job!! I couldn't believe it! the next generation of Apple silicone is going to be insane!

(I think) you said blender was worsened by Rosetta. Please try your Blender bench again with the beta Universal or straight Apple silicon Blender version. I think you'll see some improvement (assuming it works, they were still missing some features a couple of weeks ago with I gave it a whirl). Thanks for this episode!

I am very shocked by how well that new iMac performed! Amazing!

Waiting for a 2022 iMac purchase. Thank you for your reviews!

@15:00, I agree completely. It cannot be understated what Apple has designs on what's to come. The base 8gb ram is ok for now, but consumers will ultimately force Apple to boost the base model to minimum 16gb ram.

Seeing this I want to wait a little bit for the M1X Mac but this makes me so excited for it

Well done. This was very helpful. I’m currently using a Late 2015 27” iMac and really looking forward to upgrading it especially for editing videos. What you showed here is very encouraging and would definitely be a step up from what I have now but I’m holding out for the larger screen and hoping for the M1X or whatever they decide to call the upgraded computers won’t be available until the end of 2021.

@9:40 , I thought I was the only one who is experiencing this problem but I do experience it as well. I mainly use Final Cut Pro to edit and would also have at least 2 to 3 layers of 4K videos and another layer of 6K video (but it's a 360 video) and after a while of editing, the sound just wouldn't play until I wait about a minute for the rendition to complete. It sometimes confuses me a little that it can smoothly playback complicated layers smoothly but just quite often it would not play the audio and it can't load the preview images on the timeline that fast. I mainly edit on the 10 core M1 pro with 16gb ram. Of course it's not a high spec computer but it's just something I notice after switching from the quad core i7 macbook pro to the 10 core m1 pro macbook pro. That said, the rendition time and the exporting is much smoother on the m1 pro as well as the playback is much smoother as well (apart from the sometimes "muted" audio and the loading image preview of on the editing timeline)...

I'm curious to see how the mid level iMac with 16GB of RAM would do against your current beast. I'm definitely upgrading to the new iMac because my mid 2011 iMac is finally getting so slow it hurts!

Luke, I wasn’t surprised at all. That iMac Pro is a beast of a PC. I think you’ll switch back eventually to the iMac Pro eventually. See you soon iMac Pro. 😉

Out of curiosity, which version of Big Sur were you running when you were editing the video? Apparently, according to a MacRumors forum thread, apple has changed something in 11.4 so that the M1 fills in as much of the available RAM as possible before starting to write to the SSD.

Have had the same audio issue with my 16 GB RAM/ 1 TB M1 Mac Mini and FCP. It drops, I relaunch FCP and it works fine. Thought I was doing something wrong, glad to hear I'm not the only one!

I’m getting that audio issue on my MacBook Air. Happens every couple of days. It fixes itself when I leave if for a minute or two - but it’s quicker to close and relaunch

What this tells me is that tests like cinebench only gives you part of the result. There’s no substitute for real use tests.

First off, I appreciate your non-biased point of view when you make videos like this, Luke. Second, I have a similarly spec'd custom PC (the build is almost 2 years old at this point) to your iMac Pro I use that's connected to my 49" 4k LG SmartTV (webOS and all that) for when I wanna play certain game consoles I have (to stream/consume content on a large screen etc) and it's fast... It's got a Ryzen 9 3900X with 32 GB of RAM and I dual boot with Windows 10 and Void Linux (Void Linux being my main/preferred OS most of the time. I have Win10 there for emergencies/testing/convenience). I also recently got an M1 Mac mini (mid tier I guess?) with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD storage onboard. I have an 8TB drive connected over USB (non-C) for storage for projects I'm doing. I use BlackMagic Design DaVinci Resolve as my NLVE (NonLinearVideoEditor) of choice because I grew up using the various versions of Adobe Premiere basically since version 1 and Resolve has a similar layout at least in my eyes. I've also not bothered to learn FCP properly, but maybe some day I will. It's M1 optimized and it works great. With all that said, this Ryzen 9 is NO SLOUCH WHATSOEVER.. If I have to or need to edit/render some video on here (using the open-source and up and coming NLVE called Olive, since Resolve hates certain Linux distros) with my slightly older AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB (this machine is hilariously all AMD) I have a great time doing it. Now granted, I've not done any strict benchmarking between my two powerhouse machines, but when it comes to my M1 mini I was able to export my unboxing video of it (13 min of footage 1080p footage, but still footage) in like 5-6 min or something like that. My Ryzen 9 here with its 12 cores and 24 threads would probably do it faster, but the M1 platform is no slouch either. I'm happy with both systems, but if I had to choose one and only one I'd totally go with my M1 Mac mini partially because I like macOS given I grew up watching it evolve into what it's become today, and because it's not Windows.... lol joking aside thank you for making this video. It was very interesting to watch. Keep em coming! Congrats on breaching 300k subs! You deserve it! I'll keep watching! I ain't goin' nowhere. lol :)

What if instead of a base model you got one of the more higher end M1 iMacs? Would that have given you better ram and render times?

Anyone else watching on a new iMac? Great video Luke!

The review I’ve been looking for! Subscribed.

Where did you get giant desk pad? Nice! In iMac colors?

If it wasn’t for the smaller 24” screen, I would already have sold my iMac Pro

Seeing the old and new designs side by side really just reminds me how good the old design looks. Sure, the new one is thin as hell, but the old one still just looks better.

I'm glad to see that the reviews of the M1 are finally pointing out some of the problems.

Congrats 300K !,!!

I’ll actually look into this as it cost less than my new iPad Pro 🥺

Many people thought I was crazy to sell my maxed out MBP 16" for a M1 MBA… Best decision ever 👏 Apple silicon is incredibly impressive

Audio issue does also occasionally happen with a non-M1 mac 20205k iMac, Have you noticed that on the right-hand side inspector windows the scroll bars are missing even if they are set to always show in the system preferences? you need to use the scroll function on the mouse to make them appear if you need to scroll for add-on's. A big deal for most people but I use an upright RSI friendly mouse and pretty much can't use FCPX as I used to anymore since last update as I can't scroll without an apple mouse. It's also super annoying that FCPX does not keep preferences for Skimming, Insta snap, thumbnail size and style. Find they change frequently without me doing anything

Guess this new iMac fits for more casual users with that design and colour options and as an added advantage the power of M1!!! Love your videos !!

Need the single core metrics between the Xeon and M1, I'm guessing it'll be a reverse blood bath.

Wait……. Do you actually use the Magic Mouse? I would have thought you’d use something like a Logitech MX series mouse.

Congrats for 300k Subs!

It's amazing to see this level of performance

A M1X space grey iMac Pro would be a perfect desktop for me! M1X will probably be able to render 10 videos at a time or something 😂

Nice review that I really appreciated. I would like to see the M1 chip perform some 2D and 3D CAD work.

How does your 18 core iMac Pro compare to the 12 core 5,1 Mac Pro you upgraded a while ago?

Great review. It seems the on die RAM is more like a fast L2 cache that's keeping thing moving, if they can make that system work with some proper off die RAM then we'll be in business.

Have had my M1 Mac Mini for 6 months and edit in FCP every week. Have never had the audio issue.

What about the screen size? Does it feel like it's too small to work on once you are used to 27"?

This is so useful I’m new to iMacs and deliberating between older models and the latest at entry level I guess there is absolutely no argument.

Congo 300k big fan since your 17 subs

Someone once called the new iMac an 'ipad on a stick' and I can't stop thinking about it I'm now torn between an iMac or a Mac Mini as my new work machine when I do upgrade, pretty rediculous performance for a base level iMac

Same intro 3 times in a row, video could have been Half this length. Still the M1 is a beast...

Love the 24” design. My only qualm is I have a 27” Thunderbolt 2.5K Display so if a baseline larger iMac with 16 Gb is available b4 end of year for say $600 to $700 more than a similar memory/ ssd capacity then I would be all in! My 2012 15” hi-res MacBook Pro is still going strong. But using the Thunderbolt Display with a similarly sized larger iMac would be stunning! Great channel🙏🏻

Will you share how you work around the limited SSD storage instead of using a raid format? Will storing everything to external SSD work?

I ordered purple, 512 GB, 8 Core GPU, 16 GB RAM. I think it will be my main computer for four or five years. :)

Question: if you only have 8gb of Ram in a M1 machine, is that comparable to 8gb in a Intel Mac? Or does your 8gbs go further with M1?

Hey Luke! You mention that you add a filter to your footage (which looks great). What is it?

Thank you for all the great videos, I am considering a new IMAC to use with Final cut Pro or perhaps Adobe Premier. Do you recommend perhaps purchasing the Mid Tier IMAC with 16 GB instead of the base 8GB? I am just diving in to film editing so any input is greatly appreciated....

Now that those Mac’s also run iOS apps it would be fun edit an video in LumaFusion on the iMac.

I totally expected to say that you won't switch to the new iMac despite it being so good at 14:09, but woah. It's incredible that an entry level iMac can replace your Pro desktop that costs 9x more.

The most thing I am impressed about is how much is actually doable with just 8GB RAM. I bought my iMac 2019 21.5" about 1,5 years ago with just 8GB of RAM and a FusionDrive (biggest mistake I could make!) because I was told it is enough for everything I would do with it. I was annoyed by really long waiting times for simple stuff (even opening Safari took 15-20s!) and in case of the new iMac, the Mac Mini and the new MacBooks I heard a lot about that being over. In the end I upgraded my iMac with SSDs and 32GB of RAM which did the deal for me. If my iMac would not be still nearly as new, I would absolutely consider buying an M1 iMac (base model).

Yes! I’ve had the same audio issues in final cut that you’re talking about! For me I am hooked up to an external LG monitor, when I flip the audio from internal to the external monitor and back again that can also trigger it to resume Playback as normal. That doesn’t work every time, so I also have to quit the program and re-open final cut again. My videos are pretty simple, But I thought maybe it was because I have the 8 GB memory MacBook Air.

My mother walked by, saw you and said you could be the third property brother but for tech. Not sure what to say.

My thoughts? Well, we don't have the luxury of getting a new iMac every time a new one comes out. The waiting game can't always be played by us.

Could you provide a link for the 48TB Raid you use? Thanks for the great info.

Here to say that I do experience the sound bug quite often on my Mac Mini M1 while using final cut pro. It happens more or less once for every project. I only close FC and reopen.

meanwhile today my 2014 base Mac mini struggled with 5 tabs open in safari. that's with an SSD swap.

I'll never ditch 18 cores for a blucking M1 8GB of ram. Export times mean more to me than anything. Using a proxy workflow for 4k is the way to go always. Going to wait for things to catch up before making the leap.

Amazing! 300k subs good job!

Good video, Luke. I have just recently begun running Resolve on my Minimac M1. Yes, audio problem here like you have experienced. I had to restart to get audio back.

I think personally I’d just sell the iMac Pro now or soon before the next model is announced, bank the ~$4k for the time being, and then consider upgrades or replacements to the base model upon next release.