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BuffyzDead said:

A welcomed "thermal" review.
Mine arrives this coming Monday, replacing my trusty Late 2012 iMac 27 (fully loaded and maxed out when purchased then).

Here's your new Mac.

27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display

Hardware:

• 3.6GHz 10-core 10th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz
• 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
• 4TB SSD storage
• Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 16GB of GDDR6 memory
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet
• Nano-texture glass
• Magic Mouse 2
• Magic Keyboard - US English
• Accessory Kit

Ordered another 32GB's of memory, to drop into the two empty memory slots, as well

    Since this is exactly the config (well, minus the $500 Nano-texture glass) I'm looking at ordering when AppleCare on my 2017 iMac runs out in October, I'd be really interested in seeing Cinebench stress (fan, temperature, power consumption, and CPU clock) results. Hope you're planning on running those tests, and sharing!

MacPro said:

BuffyzDead said:

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Ordered another 32GB's of memory, to drop into the two empty memory slots, as well

I could be wrong or misunderstanding you, but, I don't think you will have two empty slots.  You will have to remove the 4 x Whatevers and replace them with 4 x 16s.  I bought the lowest RAM and upgraded myself.  I went to 64 GB by buying 3rd party 4 x 16s and have the Apple stock 4 x 2s in a drawer.

I believe BuffyzDead is correct: the base memory configuration is 2 x 4 Gbyte of memory, leaving two slots empty, which could be filled with 2 x 16 Gbyte, for a total of 40 Gbyte.

Parents will win: they won’t have to pay for the kids’ in-app purchases.

Mandy Rice-Davies applies. (“Well, he would, wouldn’t he?”)

Microsoft has nice things envy. The kind of nice things a corporation gets when it produces a set of products that actually work together, even if it took years to get them to that level of integration.

michelb76 said:

The 9.4% of Mac Safari market share isn't going to worry Google. And only a much smaller subset of that will be using the new safari. Here's hoping that Big Sur won't be the dumpster fire that Catalina is.

Maybe it's changed in the last couple of years (I haven't been keeping track), but Safari users have traditionally been much sought after by ad purveyors and trackers, since they spend more time on high-end march websites and spend much more than users of other browsers, on average. I don't know what the 9.4% comes out to after that multiplier effect, but if you sell bling or expensive cars, you care a lot.

    What I started wondering when I saw that during the keynote was: Is there some sort of extension-like control panel for that, where individual trackers can be whitelisted, or all for a give page or site? Because if so, Ghostery just got Sherlocked, big-time.