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Fusion Drive Now Available as Option for Low End 21.5" iMac
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This is all very un-Apple-like.
Apple kit comes configured in a manner so that it just works. There is never any need to go mucking around in this sort of thing.
If you want a system with Fusion Drive, simply order one at the iStore.
Ah, Wall Street, greed, shareholders... that's all what the modern world is about, right. No wonder it all went to **** some years ago, and the worst is yet to come.
They are not getting screwed. They got exactly what they paid for.
And if you consider that Macs hold their value better than anything else you can buy with the exception of gold bullion, early adopters should simply trade in their obsolete Macs and buy a new one. It will cost them almost nothing.
Maybe you'd like to switch to one of the "open source" systems like Linux. I hear that many of the companies that sell it are on the verge of bankruptcy.
If you rock a Linux system, you can switch hard drives any way you want and it only takes a few days to get all the tech info together so you can figure it out.
Or you can simply buy a Mac, and it will just work. Your choice. The only bad thing about the second alternative is that the product is produced by a profitable company.
and you was correct! Slightly faster but nothing to write home about but boy... does the Express card get hot but I had to try and see what the diference was.I don't feel I got screwed, but I do feel a little disappointed. At least they should have said "coming soon" or something like that.
Anyway, if you don't ask, you don't get. So I just called Apple and they're taking back my current iMac and I've ordered the same but with a Fusion Drive.
Anyway, if you don't ask, you don't get. So I just called Apple and they're taking back my current iMac and I've ordered the same but with a Fusion Drive.
You didn't explain a thing. Before, you paid the money for an iMac without Fusion drive and got an iMac without Fusion drive. You got exactly what you paid for. Today, you get exactly the same computer for exactly the same money.
Even if the Fusion drive was added for free, and new customers would get more for the same price, you still wouldn't be screwed, because you still got exactly what you paid for. Which was more than you got for the same money with the previous model.
Claiming that someone is "screwed" because Apple offers an improved product or more choice is just idiotic.
I think it's only Apple, so it's looks to be software driven... as I understand it, but no doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong; which I don't mind
That was the point. It is stupid to rant about the price that Apple charges for a Fusion drive, when nobody else offers it at all.
Just canceled the base 21" I had on order, which was the second order I placed after canceling the first top model 21" to get Fusion. It's clear Fusion has been a big hit and I can see the next round of iMacs coming standard with Fusion, even if the price of pure ssd's keeps falling. The hdd manufacturers have their own vested interest in keeping spinning drives in machines and will likely give away 1+ TB drives while Apple sells systems that are both ssd fast and offer low cost per mb high volume storage.
How are we screwed? That we weren't able to spend an extra $250 on a drive upgrade? Yes, I feel so screwed!
Not.
You found yourself a new way too make fried eggs.
Actually it does work on external drives. Someone tested a USB drive "fused" with an external FireWire HD and it worked fine. Not very practical, but it was just a test. So people with limited internal capacity and no way to upgrade, could in fact add a large external drive and build a Fusion drive from it.
http://jollyjinx.tumblr.com/post/35013104235/fusion-drive-last-words-the-10-minutes-ive-seen
Obviously on a laptop this wouldn't make sense unless you always wanted to carry the external drive around with you. For these people it would be better to use the external drive for can-leave-behind data and more important stuff stored on the internal drive. For desktops that people are afraid to open up, this would be a great option.
Personally, my iMac (late '09) has a 2 TB HD, so I don't really need more space, but it would be nice for the performance boost. I may end up replacing the SuperDrive with an SSD and building a fusion drive from them. Should see a significant improvement in disk access and for a cost of only $150-$175, it might be worth it.
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Reading the comments by R.O.G. he even states using a heat gun, but this page shows Apple using a cutting tool http://www.scribd.com/doc/118836055/2012iMac,
I have built hundreds of computers in my time, and a screw is a hell of a lot easier then trying to use a sharp cutting disk tool to unglue a screen I would think, and then you have to glue it back on and reading the threads no one has found the stuff Apple uses yet. And you will also need to find the exact same cutting tool Apple uses unless you want to get the heat gun out, or use a Stanley on your new iMac!
As I said, you can do it, but it's not easy.
128Gb HD in any Mac's should be legaly Banned!!! what a joke!!!
Why? I have about 20gb of data and OS on my machines. I don't need, or want, more.
You think they'd learn by now.
(More than halfway serious)
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Because YOU didn't want it. Many did, and couldn't get it in their price range. They got screwed.
I agree, which is why I'm shocked there is not an SSD or Flash only option across the board. 128gb SSD drives are about the same price retail now as the 1TB 2.5" drives apple is using.