What? Who does "audio work" and uses Apples internal line-out? Thats what converters are for. There is still audio out in the headphones.
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What? Who does "audio work" and uses Apples internal line-out? Thats what converters are for. There is still audio out in the headphones.
The microphone is built into it. It is professional quality. The true genius of Apple and Jony is in what they leave out of their products.
Nope it's not. You're not a genius when a normal user has to buy an adapter. To me the standard (and its been for years) is a normal 3.5mm jack in for a mic.
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Anyhow, high prices. The issue is RAM, the others can be justified.A 3tb fusion drive seems good. It all depends on the actual speed you get across the board.
Also I think its stupid to sell a that smooth and nice looking machine with a 5200 rpm disk. Even to have it as a option. If a non-techy user ends up with that config you'll get a bad impression. The machine will look way better then it actually performs. And disk speeds really helps on how fast he machine feels for the end user.
Rather it be 150$ more expensive and have fusion as standard. And of course, user upgradable RAM. If the retina version will come as non user upgradable, I'm not getting it! In your face Apple!
Can't even imagine someone doing audio work on integrated audio using its silly line-in. Seriously, it's the most idiotic thing I've heard about audio work.
We had that! Actually, with my mother's educational discount, that and an ImageWriter II was just about three grand!
It was also more upgradable than these new iMacs! We put an extra video card in there to drive a full page display so my dad could use it to write reports, and shoved in 4MB of RAM. I think the RAM was about $100 a MB at the time. Might have been more! Don't forget that the floppy was a Superdrive that could store 1.4MB per disk.
Looks likes I will be getting the 27" since I need more than 16 megs of RAM
16 megabytes might not get you there. Actually, I'm quite sure of it. I'm also sure that someone else has mentioned this before me.
Here's an idea: if Apple pisses you off so much quit buying their stuff. No one id putting a gun to your head forcing you to buy any of their products. If you really want to change things the only way to do so is with your wallet.
But it's shiny! Maybe they should just release the exact same computers next year, but with extra shine. People will buy it up!
I'm not quite up to getting a new iMac just yet, but if something happened to mine, I would be getting:
I dislike the absence of FireWire, but all my external disks have USB ports as well. I think it was maybe a year or so too early for Apple to drop them.
- High end 27"
- Bumped up graphics
- Probably the fusion drive, maybe on the 3TB disk
- A maybe on the processor upgrade, it depends on all the differences between the 2.
- And a 16GB memory kit from a third party. 8GB is at the edge of useable for me currently and at the current memory prices, might as well get the largest memory kit available for the open slots.
I dislike the absence of FireWire, but all my external disks have USB ports as well. I think it was maybe a year or so too early for Apple to drop them.
How does Apple not have the price configurations and shipping estimates, but a reseller does?! Just another ball dropped by Apple.
Well, maybe not ball dropped, but to me, it doesn't look right. You can already begin pre-ordering through another company, but not the company that makes the product? I've been waiting for this computer for a long time. I will most likely wait it out, but I did consider purchasing a PC instead. Apple continues to string their customers along, and in the long run, it will hurt them. I believe their business deals and strategy allowed Google and Android (not to mention Samsung) to get as strong as they did in the cell phone market. Apple decided to go exclusive with a single carrier and it hurt them. I can speak from experience because I wasn't willing to move to AT&T, so I bought an Android phone instead. Just my opinion.
$600
You can get 32 GB from Newegg for prices as low as ~$160.
This is just utterly ridiculous (or ludicrous. Either one works.). Charging $300 would not be unexpected, and I wouldn't be surprised at $400, but SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS? They should be ashamed of such a blatant ripoff, and this is coming from a big Apple fan.
What do you think the hardware costs for the iphone is? And what do you think the overall hardware costs on the computers are? That $600 is simply consistent with the upcharge you are already paying for everything else
Agreed. What sucks is that Apple hasn't sold a moderately priced Mac Pro in a long long time. Something with half the number of slots, less power supply, etc. A bridge between the Mini (which has a lame GPU, only two RAM slots, and no room (I think) for an SSD + HD -- and the GPU etc. are not user changeable) and today's big-bucks-only Pro's. This year's releases only widened that gap. Last year's iMac could have 32GB RAM, both an HD and SSD (e.g. thorough OWC)... No more. What's narrowed is the performance difference between today's iMac and the one available a year and a half ago.'
Not entirely accurate. Due to the amount of Macs we own, we have the ability to order parts ourselves, which are always overnighted, regardless of whether the computer is in our out of warranty. I understand the typical IT department doesn't deal with Macs, but a certified Apple technician with some experience can and will replace almost any component in less than a couple of hours. Also, if you don't have a certified Apple tech on staff, AppleCare (on anything that's not portable; i.e., iMacs, MacPro, etc) will send someone onsite for the repair... it's in the T&Cs of AppleCare, though very few people notice and/or take advantage of this. And if you happen to need a third-party to do the repairs, there's a huge network of AASPs (second "A" stands for "Authorized", as in "won't void your warranty") that are willing provide excellent service.
Sorry about the rant... We've been successfully running a 100% Mac-based company for just over 20 years now, which I've been supporting for the last 10, so I flinch whenever I hear someone saying that Macs don't belong in the business environment. And iMacs are excellent business workstations for many reasons, not the least of which is that the AIO format keeps the environment clean and free of many of the problems that inevitably follow when adding third-party components or upgrades. My $.02.
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Well, it's in YouTube, so it has to be true. Oh, wait, no.
There are certainly pros & cons to both, moreover they are not mutually exclusive technologies, though I suspect the benefits of a hybrid cache/tier system in non-enterprise situations would be imperceptible. I was simply pointing out tiering is something that has been historically complicated and expensive to implement.
Considering tiering will result in a longer lifespan of the SSD and less likely to experience a cache miss thus negating the SSD advantage, tiering makes for an overall better user experience for the typical Apple user. The two biggest worries with Fusion are the lack of redundancy found in enterprise level tiering and even with the reduced write stress on the SSD compared to caching those drives have an expiration date. I know Ill be getting Apple Care on mine
Also worth pointing out Fusion isnt file level storage: http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/34694173142/more-on-byo-fusion-drive-i-wanted-to-know-how
I'm looking at the high end 27" machine. The consensus seems to be that the Fusion Drive is nessessary. The question I now have is should I upgrade the CPU or Graphics, or neither. Money really is an issue. I will upgrade the RAM next year as my budget allows.
Also, I will have this machine for probably six years. If the HHD dies out of warrantee, can I simply connect a Thunderbolt drive and continue pretty much as normal?
Also, I will have this machine for probably six years. If the HHD dies out of warrantee, can I simply connect a Thunderbolt drive and continue pretty much as normal?
OK, here I go for my first post...
I'm buying the 27" decked out, except for the RAM, and install that myself.
I'm debating the 1TB/3TB option, as if I need more HD space, I can go the Thunderbolt option. I figure 10Gbps > 600 Mbps (SATA) when I need it, but I do want the Fusion drive for the internal, and debating SSD externals with the Thunderbolt.
Since I'm using the word, Thunderbolt so much, and previously (in my PC days), the external interfaces were the bottleneck, and also with it being 10Gbps vs. SATA 600 Mbps, would the HD be the bottleneck in this setup? If so, then internal hard drives are no longer the limiting factor that they would appear to be, and the next issue is cost of the external drive enclosure(s).
I'm buying the 27" decked out, except for the RAM, and install that myself.
I'm debating the 1TB/3TB option, as if I need more HD space, I can go the Thunderbolt option. I figure 10Gbps > 600 Mbps (SATA) when I need it, but I do want the Fusion drive for the internal, and debating SSD externals with the Thunderbolt.
Since I'm using the word, Thunderbolt so much, and previously (in my PC days), the external interfaces were the bottleneck, and also with it being 10Gbps vs. SATA 600 Mbps, would the HD be the bottleneck in this setup? If so, then internal hard drives are no longer the limiting factor that they would appear to be, and the next issue is cost of the external drive enclosure(s).