Speed test 2013 iMac vs 2019 iMac By John Koetsier

Okay, so we just bought a new iMac. This is a brand-new iMac cost about. Eighteen hundred bucks got a core i3 quad-core at 3.6 gigahertz. This one is from 2013, so it's about six years old, almost seven years old, has a quad-core CPU as well. It's the core i5 running at about 2.5, gigahertz, I, believe so almost a full gigahertz slower anyways we're gonna check and see how they operate together, side by side, because we've said: we've all noticed that the new one isn't running that much faster, so Aidan's helping me out here, and we're going to press the power button simultaneously on three one, two three, so we both press the power button. The new one comes up soonest with an Apple logo.

The old one has the old familiar chime, there's the Apple logo, and now we have the Start screen coming up or the progress bar I should say takes a long time, seemingly I'm used to my MacBook Pro, which boots almost instantly. Of course, both of these do not have fusion drives. They don't have solid-state drives that are working on the old spinning hard drives, but, as you can see, it looks like the progress bar is a bit faster on the new one, but not super significantly faster. You know a six year, younger machined, newer machine, you would think, would be just absolutely killing the old one in terms of speed and that's not obviously happening still waiting, still hanging around yeah. It's its kind of painful to watch these things boot out, I'm, considering getting returning this iMac, the new one on the right and getting one with the fusion drive so that we have what it's probably about.

A hundred gigs of solid-state drive where the OS can run and get some significant speed out of that, because this is taking a long time. I didn't start a timer for when we actually press the button because, of course, I set a stage on this video and there we have a login screen on the new machine. So it is a bit faster, but wow. It's got to be like a minute from off to being able to login still waiting on the old machine and there we go that one comes up as well. So what that's? Maybe a 15-second difference on the new one, something like that: okay, so what Aidan and I are going to do is we're going to select the same user account on each machine, and we are going to type in the user password and on three we'll hit enter, so that will be login at the same time on three one, two, three! So now we're logging in and see what happens, see how long it takes again on a new machine brand-new machine.

Don't want that to happen. Almost instantly looks like it came up pretty quickly on the new machine, still working on the old machine, still chugging along and there we go. We've got a doc, and it's up and running of course, on a Mac, just because, you're up and running doesn't mean it's superfast right away. When you launch things for the first time they take a little while and once the machines been running a wild, and it's a bit faster. But what we're going to do is we're going to open up a simple web browser, so we're going to click on Safari on three one, two three, and that came up almost identically fast they're fascinating, not much difference whatsoever in that okay, let's close that, and we'll open up macOS, 10, male, and we'll click on three ones.

Two three and I should say at this point that my wife has a lot of mail on her desktop male and something like 2,000 messages or so in the various inboxes and other things like that. But it seems like it takes a long time to load the mail client. She does use Gmail as well, so that can be faster but Wow. It came up first on the old machine, and we've still got nothing coming up on the old machine on the new machine. Can you click that icon again what's happening with that? Can you right-click on there? Oh, there we go, so it came up slower on the 6 year, newer machine that is pretty insane.

Okay, so we're going to close out of that notice on this machine. The old one I get the spinning beach ball there, which is annoying. Did you see that on the new machine? No, you did not. Okay. What we're both going to do is we're going to go up to the Apple menu, and we're going to click on system preferences.

On 3, my friend on 3, my friend Wow, they came up pretty quickly. What I have noticed, whirring close that oh, and now you've got a spinning beach ball. There yeah, we love the spinning beach ball, we're gonna! Do it on three this time, and we are going to then try something in there so on three one, two: three that came up almost identically on both if you can move that window over to the side here, so we can get it in tight, let's decide! Maybe let's click on software update is that window active, make that window active Aidan by clicking anywhere? Thank you and software update is right there and on three we're going to click that one two three huh I think yours was a little faster, but not much different as you can see, they're both running macOS, 10, Catalina, 10.15, dot 2. So it's the same OS on both fully up-to-date, we'll click the back button here get back to that and let's just see what else can we do me? Will click on displays? 1, 2, 3? Yours was a little faster they're, not a lot. One will close out of system preferences.

Pretty interesting. Is there any other test? You think we should do Aden. It doesn't seem like the new one. Is that much faster right now any thoughts? You know, let's, let's open the podcasting app on three one, two three, so we're bouncing around and the various docks still balancing. This might be the very first time that this app has ever been to open on these machines.

Because, my wife's, not a big podcast listener, and we're up in live, welcome to Apple podcasts on the new machine. The old machine is, you know, kind of stuck. It's not bouncing anymore, but it's also not open, and there we finally go okay. So here we go start listening, take a quick, quick tour that was a win for the new machine. Excellent I'm gonna, try a few other things a little later as well, but I just wanted to test the side-by-side see what they look like see what they feel like I'm, not sure that I'm happy with the upgrade for $1,800 and a 6 year, newer machine, I kind of want twice as fast, maybe three times as fast and I, don't think we're getting that it doesn't seem to be that much faster on many things in a couple of things: it's actually slower so anyways.

This is John Katz. Here, thanks for hanging around on my test.

Source : John Koetsier