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New iMacs Now Available With 9th Gen Intel Core CPUs

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scottkendall said:
No File Vault, no Power Nap, lots of daisy chain FW devices, TB2 Gdrive Raid to TB3. The one in the design studio is unlocked with a watch and sleeps at 4/hrs, the one in the audio studio is not and is shut down at night. Siri is off on both rigs.
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I'm actually contemplating a new Mac mini. Would be my first new one in 14 years. The early reports and reviews have been mostly good. Thermal throttling will not be an issue for me. I'm still using my 2005 G4 today. Still like it a lot. For general use it's really not bad either. Maxed out at 1GB of ram and a 1.25Ghz single core CPU.
 
trs96 said:
I'm actually contemplating a new Mac mini. Would be my first new one in 14 years. The early reports and reviews have been mostly good. Thermal throttling will not be an issue for me. I'm still using my 2005 G4 today. Still like it a lot. For general use it's really not bad either. Maxed out at 1GB of ram and a 1.25Ghz single core CPU.
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I just got one and I can say its been a powerful machine so far. Specs are
  • 3.2GHz 6‑core 8th‑generation Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 4.6GHz)
  • 32GB 2666MHz DDR4
  • UHD Graphics 630
  • 512GB SSD storage
  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet (Nbase-T Ethernet with support for 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb, and 10Gb Ethernet using RJ‑45 connector)
I traded in a 2017 MBP 15" so my total out of pocket was $500. Was a no brainer :D
 
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Z370 AORUS Gaming 7 |  i7 8700 |  Vega 64 8GB
trs96 said:
I'm actually contemplating a new Mac mini. Would be my first new one in 14 years. The early reports and reviews have been mostly good. Thermal throttling will not be an issue for me. I'm still using my 2005 G4 today. Still like it a lot. For general use it's really not bad either. Maxed out at 1GB of ram and a 1.25Ghz single core CPU.
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I have an aluminum laptop stand.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074DTL449/?tag=tonymacx86com-20

It is fairly close to the same color as the Mac mini, I got it because it looked nice and gave me a place to put my drives under the Mac mini without creating clutter. I found that if I flip the mini over so it is aluminum to aluminum contact and set the internal fan around 2300 it remains quite but the stand dissipates the heat enough to keep it running in the 50c to 60C range instead of the 70c or 80c range. They did not offer one with a fan when I purchased mine.

One of them only uses the IGPU; one uses an external Vega64 with core x EGPU. Flashed with sapphire Nitro+ Vega 64 bios so the fan shuts down at 50C.

I think if someone was creative enough they could make a external heatsync/fan that could connect to the internal heatsync if you removed the wifi plate. But thats not me and until I experience throttling in my day to day work Not sure that I need to seek other options.

and as you say 4 working thunderbolt ports I am lucky in that I am able to leverage an apple discount and I did the memory upgrade on both of them myself. I wish I was able to make a Hack that did not crash on me if left running for longer than a day or two without reboot.
 
Build 1 Titan Ridge TB3
Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 |  i9 9900K |  RX 6900 XT (16 GB)
So, should I expecting a new MultiBeast/Clover to support 9700K? So I can set SMBIOS iMac 19,2 like from here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201634 and my CPU will be identified correctly? Currently I have just this:

396961
 
intel procesor 9 gen

System Information
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E2034)
Model iMac19,1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1


intel procesor 8 gen

System Information
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E2034)
Model iMac19,2
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-63001698E7A34814 iMac19,2

 
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ori69 said:
System Information
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E2034)
Model iMac19,1
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1


System Information
Operating System macOS 10.14.4 (Build 18E2034)
Model iMac19,2
Motherboard Apple Inc. Mac-63001698E7A34814 iMac19,2

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I guess that's the macOS build specific to those 2019 iMacs, right?
 
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