Imac one or two fans?

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Imac one or two fans?

Today I went to the Apple Store to buy a brand new Imac. I am a cyber Securiyy student and do not of design as well. I did my research and I decided to go for the second price point model because of the two fans. Everywhere online and reviews on YouTube raved over the two fans on the upgraded version of the iMac. unfortunately, when I got to the store the person helping me said that none of the Apple computers have two fans. He was actually very dismissive about it. So I didn’t make my purchase and I decided to call Apple support. I spent a total of 45 minutes on the phone being transferred from one person to another and nobody could find if it only had one fan or two fans. It was very frustrating to see how not very well trained these employees were. All they wanted me to do and push me to do was to buy a computer without answering any of my questions.

so my question is out of the three price points. Which Imac has the two fans?

Posted on Sep 5, 2022 12:44 PM

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Phil0124

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Sep 5, 2022 1:08 PM in response to LunaS0710

The top 2 models have 2 fans. The bottom 1 has only one.

Apple does not disclose such technical aspects to the public or even their staff as in general its not a relevant item to know about for most people.

If your budget does not allow for a the higher tier option, then you can only get the one with one fan it will work fine with one fan and you would never even notice the difference since you would have nothing to compare to. Only because people have gone out and done these benchmarks do we even know there is a difference. It general unless you to a ton of 4K rendering or 3D video game work the differences will be almost negligible in regular workflows.

If your budget allows for a higher configuration, then you'll get 2 fans but its irrelevant. You should be focused on the RAM and CPU rather than the number of fans. If you select a higher tier Mac you get the higher tier performance and response and with that it just happens to include 2 fans.