On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM Larry wrote:
Processor on my 2009 i7 iMac: i7- 860
Processor on my 2017 i5 iMac: i5- 7500K
Processor on my 2017 i7 iMac: i7- 7700K
Processor on my 2020 i7 iMac: i7-10700K
Processor on my 2017 i7 iMac: i7- 7700K
Processor on my 2020 i7 iMac: i7-10700K
The first iMac was 45 NM. The next three are 14 NM.
My complaint about the time period from 2010 to 2020 is that advances in processors seemed to be very slow. The i7-10700K is only twice as fast because it has twice as many cores. It wasn't until Apple came out with the M1 that we saw a big change.
The Ryzen 9 7940hs processor on my Minisforum computer is 4 NM. In theory, it is about 60% faster than the i7-10700K, but I think that the mini-computer thermal throttles. Maybe the iMac does too, but it has a big cooling system relative to the compactness of the all-in-one computer.
Compact computers tend to use laptop parts. The "M" in M1 is for "Mobile". iMacs use smaller versions of memory and storage, and so does my mini-computer.
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