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samotivad

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Mar 24, 2021
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Hey I'm thinking of getting an iMac sometime in the near future. I was wondering how it does with heat management, specifically for heavier tasks like video and 3D rendering? I know they're powerful enough but when I see how thin they are I wonder about how they keep cool.

Currently I have a MacBook Pro M1 and with that the CPU temperature reaches well over 95 degrees celcius quite quickly. That's fine though because I don't really need or expect the portable Mac to render very often. With an iMac I would need it to render from programs like Blender, Maya and Final Cut Pro though. It's not like it would be rendering huge sequences day and night but I do render video etc fairly often, especially from 3D programs.
 
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