The video was informative. I am interesting to seeing a comparison of the 768 SSD vs. 3TB Fusion drive as I think that will be my decision point.
The biggest unknown right now is how hard it will be to get at the 2012 iMac internals. I was squeamish against diving into a 2007, and decided against it. The 2012 only looks harder.
The video was informative. I am interesting to seeing a comparison of the 768 SSD vs. 3TB Fusion drive as I think that will be my decision point.
At least with the dual drives Fusion is a good basis to return to if opening the new macs is problematic minor upgrade wise. I don't want to wait around to find out months after the release that an upgrade would be possible.
I think they'll be comparable in speed, at least a lot closer than the comparison between fusion vs regular hdd. The kicker is the moving parts in the fusion. Do those parts make it more prone to failure than a SSD? Probably.
can someone explain why hasn't SSD become cheaper and higher capacity after so long? why do we have to have fusion
can someone explain why hasn't SSD become cheaper and higher capacity after so long? why do we have to have fusion
They have. Drastically. It's just nobody told Apple's customers.
Four or five years ago SSDs were about £10+ a GB. Around two years ago I bought a small ssd at £2.50/GB, recently I paid about 50p/GB for a much faster one with 8 times the capacity. Both drives went in a mac. At the time I bought the first drive, apple were charging double for a bto upgrade. At the time I bought the second, apple were charging nearly five times the price!
Even if they continued to fall in price at the same rate, it would still be a few years to catch up with the price-per-gigabyte of hard drives, which have a few decades of manufacturing behind them. It seems the price fall of SSDs are beginning to stabalise now as flynz4 talks about. Personally, I don't feel like I do need a fusion drive with today's (non-apple) prices. As I said in my post on page one, I'm perfectly happy with a 512GB ssd which doesn't need to do any background tasks with a mechanical drive constantly chugging away. However, as SSD is a long way off from providing multiple terribytes of affordable storage like HDDs can, the fusion technology is a useful option for those who want more working space than me.
Opening up the cases of any of the old iMacs straight away you are right in to problems with getting dust behind the screen. Just something that is not worth risking permanent damage for. Just a finger mark on the LCD will be very hard to remove.