Truly depressing…

[Rick Lang]

[Andre van Berlo] “I can imagine it it much harder putting 8 or 12 cores in such a small space which leads to higher manufacturing costs.”

I think the 12-core may be a somewhat differently architected chip as I recall, but I think the 4-core, 6-core, and 8-core chips may actually be the same chip. The 8-core just have zero problems and so all are enabled, the 6-core are failing tests in one or two cores and so those cores are disabled, the 4-core fails in three or four cores and so those are disabled. May not be right about it but your response and the others who answered my question are on the right track. The cost difference between the different options is not entirely influenced by hardware design as much as by the limited market for the highest core options and the frequency of core failures considering the transistor technology is very new and the densities are continuing to amaze. Thanks!

So I have a better understanding but will wait a month or two for benchmarks and feedback from the community to see if there’s a $1,000 of benefit to me going from 6-core to 8-core. If Peter Chamberlain from BMD draws the line in the sand for DaVinci Resolve 4K support at 8-core, well then that decision is easy.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Andre Van berlo]

From what I’ve read it is all about which software you use and if it can use all those cores. I don’t need 6 cores for the kind of editing that I do but I do need 6-8 cores for the kind of live streaming that I’m going to do in 2014.

I think most people here know exactly what they’re needs are because most have been doing their work already for a long time. I’m just a guitar teacher who got into editing because these days you’ve got to be active online as well(lot of fun though!!). In the past I’ve bought 2 iMacs, and each time I bought one it turned out to be under spec’d. Why? Because with the first one, 6 months later I started using it in my home studio for audio recording, then I bought a new iMac a couple of frustrating years later and guess what? 6 months later I started editing video on a daily basis and soon that iMac was underspecced as well…

I’m quite keen on getting it right this time, especially considering the prices 🙂