I'm prepared to claim that this thing is a certified Screamer™

@laemert09

5 жыл бұрын

where did you purchase this?

@Sharky165

5 жыл бұрын

That's how I would describe my ex-girlfriend's performance in bed ! 😜

@marcusproietti

5 жыл бұрын

Luke Miani qd$3r

@harvardh

2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Would you still recommend this iMac in 2022? I lightly run music editing software. Cheers

@trishapaytas23

Жыл бұрын

jjjjjj

The cinematography. You've really stepped up your game, nice job and congrats on 30k! Here since about 4kish, can't wait till 100k!

@alexandervickers1457

4 жыл бұрын

almost 200k now!

@ArthurGetting

3 жыл бұрын

Past 200k!

@Michael-eg3hc

3 жыл бұрын

@@presidentmuhammadasyraafab7868 270!!

@karl-gustav

3 жыл бұрын

@NotCoolMan123 300

@velxcity07

3 жыл бұрын

@@karl-gustav 315

I honestly just want to say how much your channel has improved ever since I subscribed. From the increase in your editing skills to the improved quality of your equipment! It's been awesome watching you grow and I can wait to see you get bigger! Love your videos and what you teach us! Thanks for making videos! P.S. Jealous of all those Macs ya got XP

Beyond my price range for sure, but it's a Luke Miani video so I'll be watching it anyway, haha!

thank you for filming in 4K, much appreciated as this video looks so nice on my 4K TV

Why did I think of McDonald’s when you said “value Mac”?

@ARamirez150

4 жыл бұрын

The dollar menu?

@KiraSlith

2 жыл бұрын

Too much food out lol.

Nice purchase there. Glad, to see you're able to get yourself a newer machine? Now, to continue building your channel with less timeline errors.

The quality of your videos just keeps getting better!

Love the b-roll. Love the overall video. Very frugal. Subscribed.

I can't stop watching your videos. Your enthusiasm almost persuaded me to buy a mac. Then I watch videos like this. And think, nah, all that effort and you are happy it plays games? And happy that it only stuttered a few times? Yet the spec of your machine is higher than the very best imac? That's crazy. Despite I don't own a mac, probably never will. Still love for your videos. For some reason they keep coming up on my youtube. You will be big I am sure. Great content.

My 2015 27 inch 5K iMac has worked perfectly and still does - upgraded the 16 GB RAM to 32 GB, and plan to upgrade the fusion drive to an SSD, will look into upgrading the Quad-Core i7 and Radeon R9 M395 2 GB graphics if possible - the display is magnificent - hope to keep using this iMac for years to come.

another great video man love the videos on the Macs that hit the price to performance window. you did mention that you where working on a new editing Mac and this was a surprise and its something on my radar now.

I really appreciate your videos since I have an old 2009 27"iMac which is still very useable in 2020. Keep the great content coming. Hoping you hit 200K subscribers and beyond very soon.

@Zahilla12

4 жыл бұрын

Jules Verne Reyes I have the same computer and I love it, I just put an ssd and 8 ram in mine

I was looking at buying one of these used. I may just get it then. Oh, and Luke, AMAZING video quality! You’re stepping it up!

Great job! I enjoyed this. I picked up a 2014 27”4ghz i7 32gb for under $1200. They are beautiful machines.

Hey Luke, keep up the good work! I am not even a Mac user, but love the videos.

Very nice review! I am super proud and happy that back in time I bought my iMac 5K late 2015 fully specter, till now it still runs 4K videos like a 1080p, insanely! I only those MacBook Pro were so crazy good like those were 2012-2015 Mac would definitely gain the computer market!

I really like the videos you make on apple products you have very useful information keep up the good work💪🏻💯

Great review and wish your channel continued successful!!!

I just bought a 2015 yesterday and I'm so excited to upgrade the RAM, SSD, and CPU and watch it race :)

Picked up a 2009 MBP for $40 and an ounce of herb that I grew. put in 8gigs of ram and a new SSD. I use it or making and recording music! works perfectly!

@jonaslai1963

5 жыл бұрын

wow

@KyleGuitarLife

5 жыл бұрын

Now that’s a deal not sure about loosing an ounce of herb though

@MaineConservative76

5 жыл бұрын

​@@KyleGuitarLife I grow the stuff all year long, indoor and outdoor. An ounce cost me about $5.

@jaan-mattisaul8934

5 жыл бұрын

You sir, are a rebel. Kudos.

@MaineConservative76

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaan-mattisaul8934Nah, its legal here

Well, this video made me accept a deal for the very same iMac you are talking about, great review. Greetings from Mexico.

@xoxo-pp7ru

4 жыл бұрын

Hola mexico

Good job on this video. Good subject, too. The 27" 5K is a rock star rig.

nice video bro.getting back on the KZread grind real soon. just picked up a MacBook Pro today. for now. was really hoping a new iMac would've came but I guess next year!

Good video, my family is getting an refurbished 5k iMac for Xmas

Hey Luke, I just bought one of these for £933. Top spec inc 1TB flash memory. I couldn't believe when it just popped up on eBay. Only one other bidder who'd lurked, like I had, until the last minute on the auction. It was starting at £800. My max bid was £950 and I bid in the last 7 seconds. Exciting moment. When I saw it I must have subconsciously remembered watching this video. UK retail back then was £3300!! Thanks for the recommendation!

Good info, appreciate the vid

Got one of these for my family refurbished from Apple 2 years ago to replace our old 2010 iMac and it's an awesome machine. It has a 2TB fusion drive, i5 processor and the mid tier M390 graphics card. I don't do much on it but it runs like a champ and will definitely last for quite a few years.

Way better performance than I expected. Actually reconsidering if I'm keen for my mac Pro 5.1 build after watching this..

Love your videos. They are always helpful and informative to the T. I was gifted a 27" 2014 1tb Fusion i5 and upgraded the ram 24 but decided to look around on ebay to see what was out there and landed on a 27" 2015 1tb ssd 32 ram and i7 for $300 per bidding. I know I could have upgraded ssd my self on the 2014 but I kept seeing reviews on how solid this one was.

I agree Luke. I have the same machine. I love it. Haven't tried to game on it...but it works great for Photoshop and Video Editing.

“2017 iMacs are about to get replaced, so I got a *2015 iMac.* “ Wtf?

@liangyang8945

4 жыл бұрын

It makes sense to me. I recently bought a 2017 iMac because the 2019 iMacs are about to get replaced.

@nickmacaluso6585

4 жыл бұрын

Cheaper and easily upgraded on what will need it. That i7 will be sufficient for a very long time!

Congrats on 30k ! Btw subbed since 10 k !

@XGaming1

5 жыл бұрын

YISTECH I’m also a cuber!!! AWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Great review!

Stumble across your vid, nicely done. The only reason that stop me from buying this model is thunder bold 3

Mine is a 5k display with a quad core i5 3.2 ghz, 16gb ram, 2gb Radeon GPU and 250gb flash drive. Just $200 from my town's University's auction. It's clean through and through and someone stole one for $150. I was able to snag 2 of them (one for my friend) :D. Mine's definitely going to be my multimedia workstation.

I just bought an iMac 2012 27" i5 3.2ghz 12gb ram GTX 680M for only $600!!!! Although its not 5k but I think 1440p is enough for me already :D

Thank you for this, I'm gonna get one for video editing. cheers

On eBay in mid-2022, I am similar configs for about half what he quoted. Now that M series is here people are dumping the Intel stuff. When it hits bottom, I am here to buy one. 😊

I picked up a 2017 5K iMac on ebay with an RX 580 and 2TB fusion for $1800 and change. when it arrived there was a slight bend in the stand and the seller refunded me $100 and I just bent it back, cant even tell. the 2017 are much better than the previous models for thunderbolt 3 and the much faster RX 570/580 cards. games great and even VR is good. I can play overwatch in 5K and runs silky smooth at 60fps! I sacrificed hyper-threading and an i5 but nothing I do is really that compute intensive where it would matter much. $1700 for a maxed out 2015 doesnt seem like a very good deal imo if you can get a 2017 for just a little more which will have 2x the GPU and TB3 for future proofing.

@radiantDF

4 жыл бұрын

what's your complete specs for your imac? are you planning to unfuse your drives and just upgrade everything to SSD?

@rexk3123

4 жыл бұрын

Well , I got the same exact same 2015 iMac 27 5K kid......, i7 4.0QC/32GB ram/R395X 4GB and 2TB fusion (Evo 860 Pro 2.5" upgrade) Plus a magic Keyboard 2 with numeric key + Track pad 2. But there is a tiny crack on the left-Top hand side of my screen, only in the edge doesn't affect the actual LED area. Guess what I got it for $7500 HKD, which is equivalent to US $960 dollars. BTW I live in Hong Kong. That's what you call " A Killer deal" ^ _^ $ 1700 USD is just way too much for an aged iMac like this, but really good performance no doubt......

Luke!! This is the video I've been hoping and waiting for you to make! As I've commented before on your videos, I truly believe the 2015 27 inch iMac pro is the best value Mac product ever made, "FOR A MAC" haha loved that. I'm a die-hard PCMR gamer and IT pro of 15 years, who has nothing but bad things to say about apple, except for this one machine. I love your channel for the value propositions of older machines you present and I'm glad you pointed out the value of this one. keep up the great work!

Weird question, What table mat is that? Looks clean!

6:20 That leaning xD

You got a crazy deal!

It's definitely wonderful and nice to look at now but wait till something goes wrong and you have to repair something within the internals of the machine. I'll stick to the classic Mac Pro dual Xeon processor version all day long

You really make me want a mac. I will get one eventually. Oh well to cheer myself up while I wait I'll watch some Thundercats.

@sleepingphoenixreadings

4 жыл бұрын

WV Productions Thunder Thunder Thunder Thunder CATS roooooar 😅 😍

Seen your video and bought the same iMac, only my iMac has 3t memory the rest is the same as yours. Thanks to your video now I have my First iMac, never owned iMac before

6:20 You can't actually lean to see around corners, even at 5k. lol :D

I got a 1440p iMac with the 2gb VRAM (GTX 775M). Works a dream for about $550usd, with an i5-4670, 8gb RAM and 1TB hard drive. It's nicely upgradable too

Hey Luke! I’d love to see a video on buying Mac accessories. Like keyboards, Mice, etc. I’d love to know how to score a good deal on a magic keyboard or something. I’m new to the Mac world and not sure what is and isn’t a good deal.

Interesting video ! Entertaining and well explained. Thnxs for sharing. Btw, is your video editing software Final Cut Pro in all of your work ? Suggestions/recommendations are welcome.

Thanks für the advice. I'm still using a late 2009 iMac and am looking for a new one. It works fine, no Mojave though. rgds

Late 15'r here as well. Except I have the 3.2 i5. I converted to 512g SSD and upped to 16g RAM. Considering that a 27 inch 5k monitor refurbished is $1k, I have to agree these are a very good value. I still love mine, and it started at the bottom of the barrel!

I’ve used two versions (low end and maxxed out) of the 2015 5K iMac, and neither was a disappointment. The 4.0GHz i7 version I used had been upgraded with a hefty 2TB SSD and 32GB of RAM, and I was editing immense 4+GB PSB files. The thing just performed under pressure. But yes, the fan noise was apparent. I can only guess that the Radeon RX 580 equipped versions are capable of a 1.5x speedup in similar Photoshop tasks, but obviously at a quite steep cost.

Your videos are great, if your new platform has the 8 GB GPU it’s one of the best platform s that anyone can find in a all-in-one.

Bought the same model from reseller for $500 due to a slight crack in the corner. I agree... amazing value for an iMac with 5K display, especially when compared with later models.

@JCNOAOU

4 жыл бұрын

M Johnson where did you buy? Was anything else wrong it?

The 2017 iMac is great value for an apple product. I have one too and its a workhorse. I use it every day for programming and gaming (bootcamp) and it has been performing without a hitch. Super silent fan, flawless display, stellar performance and OSX. It really puts MacBook Pros to shame.

I have a 5k imac from 2015. Fully specked. How much can I get for it?

I really do like that the I-Mac is an all in one computer, and comes with a (a rechargeable) keyboard and mouse, or the Trackpad. I went on line and check the options and pricing and at the bottom there is an option for the Pro Bundle (Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro and three other programs) that if bought each one separately, it would cost you a bit more, and you have the I-Mac with these apps installed. I will wait to see what the Next I-Mac (October/November) come with, hopefully, the new 9th Generation Intel I-9 with 6 or 8 Core, and an upgraded Radeon Video Card. Late November the 15 Inch MacBook Pro will have an Vega 16 or 20 option. Which would increase the chance of the next I-Mac will have that option also. It may be late November or December. That would be one awesome Christmas Present for myself. Thank you, Santa. I would opt for the Pro Bundle also. I have the Creative Cloud membership and will learn Premiere Pro, After Effects and Final Cut Pro X, also on the Audio, Audition and Logic Pro X. Really miss using an I-Mac. (From school). Illustrator and Photoshop will be a blast on the I-Mac, and many other of the Adobe Creative Cloud Apps, InDesign, Adobe XD, Dimension and Animate, as well as Character Animator, which also makes me think of the Emoji's on the New IOS 12 and I-Phone 10S.

Excellent video! While, I own two very old imacs a white 20 inch G5 with a Power PC processor (running OS X 10.4) and a white 24 inch model with an Intel processor (running OS X 10.6) not in the market for imac computers anymore. Gone are the days when Apple designed their computers for user upgrades like on my G5 imac where the RAM, Airport Card, Hard Drive, etc. are all very easy to service. Now, Apple wants us to connect what we need to our computes by using external hard drives, external blue-ray DVD players, external eGPU, etc.

You miss something : Thunderbolt 3 ! I prefer the base 2017 model just because TB3 ! Great review and great lighting btw! :)

@bradhaines3142

5 жыл бұрын

what do you even use it for? and don't say eGPU because macs dont really have games, or compatibility with most boxes. so that doesnt count

@alienwaregameralx1874

5 жыл бұрын

The last Mac OS 10.14 (Mojave), is compatible with with most egpu boxes. Now even the apple store is selling the official supported Blackmagic egpu with 580. It s 100% officially supported and working out of the box. (btw i don t recommend it ) @@bradhaines3142

I still love my early 2016 27" 5K iMac.

I have a Mid 2012 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Core i7, 16GB Ram, and 500GB SSD. The machine is a screamer, really fast in Xcode! Despite, being more than 6 years old it runs the latest version of macOS Mojave and Xcode! Edit: The display is really bad though.

@lukemiani

5 жыл бұрын

Those 2012s are real screamers!

@sneedsneed460

5 жыл бұрын

Pick up an external monitor! If you can find a thunderbolt display cheap enough, it works seamlessly with your MacBook and you can use it in clamshell mode with keyboard and mouse!

@12-coretrashcan34

5 жыл бұрын

@@sneedsneed460 Yes, I am using the 27-inch ThunderBolt display with my MacBook Pro. Works great!

@Mainyehc

5 жыл бұрын

I have one of those, too. They are, indeed, great machines. Too bad I can't have any SATA III drives on the optical bay, though… By the way, seeing how you've installed Mojave on it already, you might've noticed Apple turned off sub-pixel rendering at the system level, a decision which, compounded by its archaic screen, makes all the text look like a blurry mess. This neat little trick can restore text rendering on Mojave to macOS's old, triple-resolution anti-aliased glory, with only a few imperceptible artifacts: www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing I tested it on the external 1080p monitor I'm using with my brand new 5K iMac (I went the Quinn from SnazzyLabs' route, instead of buying a used 2015 model), and it works great. As for the main monitor, holy hell. Not all of the text is sub-pixel rendered, but the strings that are have an effective 654 ppi of horizontal resolution, which puts them squarely in physical print territory even at close viewing distance.

@jed23ify

5 жыл бұрын

Frank Ck I had the same model, and upgraded to a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro, I couldn’t stand the horrible screen and had severe lag in windows boot camp. Best decision I could have made...

I swapped from PC to 5k Imac 2014 i7 32gb ram 295 4gb. Its awesome for photo and video editing. The pc doesn't even get used anymore. Looking forward to next imac

Actually the 2017 imac has a better display too in terms of higher nits and it is significantly brighter than the previous gen. Although that may not matter if you aren't in bright light environments anyway. Also the thunderbolt 3 ports over thunderbolt 2 is far far superior if you want to add an eGPU, LG 5k display or some raid storage to name a few.

@tomrichter7979

5 жыл бұрын

But it’s a thousand bucks more

Holiday returns are your best bet for a decent price on an almost new Mac! I bought an open box 27" 3.8 Ghz 2017 iMac 5K. Barely handled at all! Once a retailer takes back an Apple product (or any large ticket item really), even if it has only been sold for a day; they can't really sell it as new. So it gets re-sold for $300 - 400 less just like that!

I agree I’ve got one and it’s still pretty fast

wonder how this would handle Destiny 2. I recently started playing Destiny 2 thanks to it being free and even on the lowest settings on my MacBook Pro it still runs better than what I'm used to on PS4 (i'm not using a PS4 Pro, if that makes much of a difference on Destiny 2). It actually runs well enough for me to consider buying the expansion and not playing on PS4 anymore, despite me having a fully leveled character...

My finger is GLUED to the Like button :)

500th view. Great video!!!

Got mine for 950 Euro with 16GB and 512GB SSD because the glass was broken on the frame (not going into the visible space). Great value, it's the inside values that count. And this machine can handle 128GB RAM if you need it and a huge 4TB SSD disk.

Please do a review on the 2018 Mac Mini!

1,176th view, nice. 168th like, Yay. Plus one subscriber, congratulations.

Hi Luke I'd love for you to do a 2022 update on this video. I'm looking into buying one for around 600.

The main reason the past years iMac 5K is decent value is because it comes with a 5K display. I hear the 2015 skylake model (mentioned here) also had a noticeably improved screen and better thermals (mostly due to the first iMac 5k having Haswell architecture, and the new 2015 model having the more efficient skylake architecture) over the original 2014 model.

I have the base model with an external 512gb samsung 850 evo ssd and it runs perfectly the fans never even turns on! even under render or any fake workload the cpu does not get above 70celsius.

I found one of these at the E-waste section at my local dump today. Plugged it in and turned it on. It looked like it was doing great but is taking forever to boot. I've done a bit of research and it looks like the HD might be dying. So I'm going to give swapping it for an ssd a try and see what happens :)

@ash.mystic

2 жыл бұрын

Ooh nice find! How did it turn out?

Wow dude I have the same table lamp!! Bro!!!

Hello Luke. Do you know how to fix a Imac 2014 with a image persistence? Great work by the way!

Great video. Very informative and useful. I don't suppose you can help me. I've been growing my KZread channel and want an iMac to edit my videos. Problem is I'm on a kind of low budget. I would absolutely go for the imac featured in this video, but I don't currently have the revenue to afford it. Where would you look to find a decent rig without going up crazy high in price? Thanks again and keep up the good work.

@lukemiani

5 жыл бұрын

Snag a 2012 iMac if you can, they're supported and decently powerful

@jessep8689

5 жыл бұрын

@@lukemiani hey, thanks for the quick reply! I'll look around at the 2012 models and see what I can find. I'm currently at 593 subscribers so it's not like 4k editing is vital right now. Maybe a more powerful mac would be in the cards in the future. I really appreciate it dude. How do you not have 100 thousand subscribers by now?

Here since 10K

Great video. Can you link the desk mat, thanks...

You play using the magic mouse, wow

I have a 2012 iMac 27 and loving it. Only issue is that the hdd in the fusion drive doesn't work so I only have 128gb of storage.

Have my eye on this exact model since the video came out, finally got it! 27 in 5K 1TB Sata disk + 128SSD. 32GB Ram & 4GB graphic card BEAST

@StarmanDX

4 жыл бұрын

How much did you pay?

@PassionPainNDemonsStreetwear

4 жыл бұрын

Starman 1500$ USD I wouldn’t pay no more than 1600-1700 depending what the specs are

@StarmanDX

4 жыл бұрын

@@PassionPainNDemonsStreetwear Ok, cool, I can pick one up with a 6700k, 4gb gpu, 32gb ram, 2.12tb fusion drive (gonna change the hdd tho) for $1100 USD and have been looking for average prices

@PassionPainNDemonsStreetwear

4 жыл бұрын

Starman I would recommend finding one with an SSD (much faster) even if it’s 1300$ with an SSD... it will save you the time and money to do all that( take out fusion and put hdd) 2015?

@damnrney

4 жыл бұрын

I just got my hands on mine. 4.0Ghz 27in 5k 512GB SSD 32GB RAM but the M395 no X. Should be here Thursday☺️

@luke Miami - one issue: it only has Thunderbolt 2 ports. Limits future upgradability. Wouldn’t buying a 6-core i7 2018 Mac Mini and adding an external GPU perform better and have more reliable future proofing?

That's exactly the machine I'm watching this video on 👍

Came by thinking about picking up an iMac from this era to use as a cheap-ish 1080p stream host and true color monitor (~$300 these days, literally the price of an un-tuned 4k monitor). Plus, being this old gives me a great excuse to pull it apart and tinker, like relocating the drive IO outside the frame (because in Apple's infinite wisdom, they sealed both inside the glued chassis).

picked this up over the weekend with 16 BG ram 1 TB fusion 3.2 GH quad core intel i 5 for 300# in mint condition.

I picked one of these exact models up from someone for $1000 about 5 months ago. Had to sell it sadly, but sold for $1500 on eBay.

You can't use the display on its own though, it has to be hooked up to the imac hardware, which is quite ridiculous

I got one of these for $550 yesterday and I can confirm they are still absolutely awesome in 2023.

@bobbyz23

Ай бұрын

Got mine for $223 off eBay Tue and loving it!

@insertnamehere6559

Ай бұрын

@@bobbyz23 Unfortunately, mine's screen started to get stuck around the corners. Apparently they ALL do this eventually. I'm really mad this wasn't mentioned anywhere :(

@bobbyz23

Ай бұрын

@@insertnamehere6559 To be honest this is not a common issue or you would see videos addressing this problem.

look at 6.06, this is my bigest gripes with the imac line, so much glare for a pro device, good we have options now

How would a new Mac mini with egpu and 4K monitor compare?

I had just bought a mid 2015 27 inch iMac with the i5 6600, 16gb of ram , r9 m395x, as well as a 512gb ssd. I bought it for around $560-ish, that’s including tax and shipping. Do you think that is a good deal ?

im looking at one same only 3.2GHz, 16GB Memory, 1TB Fusion , would you recommend for video editing

@Mori3l

3 жыл бұрын

Did you get one? How does it work? I’m looking at the same for video editing too...

Just got this bad boy for 16 with the Magic Mouse 2 and keyboard

@StarmanDX

4 жыл бұрын

$1600? I'm trying to find the price for these, I found one for $1100 and idk if it's a good price

I've had this exact same iMac with the exact same specifications since it was a current model. Only difference is I used faster RAM (2133 MHz instead of 1867 MHz DDR3, which works fine). Never any complaints about the performance, and the display is fantastic (aside from image retention, which is unfortunately very common on the 2014/2015 5K iMac).

@williamnale7835

2 жыл бұрын

I'm considering this imac. Is the image retention permanent like burn in? Thanks

You’re missing out on Thunderbolt 3, so not only are your graphics limited out of the box, but you can’t expand them. This would concern me, but at the price you paid... maybe?

one Question.. Why the New Mac Mini?? Love the iMac Love the Video Just wondering Cuzz im stuck between wanting both a New iMac & mac Mini

@lukemiani

5 жыл бұрын

If you have a nice monitor, buy a Mac Mini i7. If you don’t have any monitor or you only have a crap one, iMac. (iMacs also have graphics so let that factor in based on your workload)

@MysticParks

5 жыл бұрын

@@lukemiani if im able to wait for the new iMac should i wait?

@lukemiani

5 жыл бұрын

@@MysticParks Yes. Wait. At the very least you're going to get better performance than the current Mac mini so that's a big plus.