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2012 iMac Said to Carry Thinner Design, Alleged Internals Photo Surfaces
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Its about midway between a 650TI and a 660 and slightly below a 580 so you are both correct.
They should aggressively put decent GPU even on an entry-level iMac and Mac mini so the Mac can finally invade windows as an alternative desktop gaming machine.
To date the largest standard-sized laptop hard drive is 1TB. They do make 2TB laptop hard drives, but only in the thicker 15mm range that doesn't fit in all systems. Desktop hard drives have now reached 4TB.
In a word, yes. Not if you want decent capacity anyway.
The latest rumors on this new iMac computer that Apple is supposedly making is that they're ditching the 3.5" floppy drive. I have many old floppies which would be impossible to use without an external drive.
You could insert 8-tracks, cassettes, 5.25" floppies, VHS, etc etc... At some point they have to move on...
that argument sounds like the person that wrote this article in 1998
2TB 2.5" drives are also slow and expensive (twice the price of 3.5" 7200RPM drives).
Oh well, I tried. I'm just in denial about the 2.5" disk.
Seems half the people are disappointed it won't have a large enough traditional hard drive, while the other half are disappointed it isn't all SSD.
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I only use it for installing software from companies who are still hell bent on avoiding e-distribution. Regrettably, those exist.
Speaking of iMacs and DVDs... when Jobs unveiled the "lampshade" iMac G4 in 2002, he said this while explaining why they didn't just put the computer on the back of the flatscreen: "There are some fatal flaws in that approach. We have to put the logic board parallel to the display, on the back of it, which means the connectors come out on the side, making the worst kind of cable mess right in front of your eyes. And even worse, we have to turn the drives on the side, and in particular with the optical drives, they can't run at full speed on the side, we have to slow them way down, the performance goes waaaaay down when you turn them on their sides, and you could NEVER fit a SuperDrive in there. This approach is far less than great, and we rejected it."
2 years later they introduced the iMac G5 which sported all the "fatal flaws" that made the design idea he puked all over "less than great". It was Schiller and he addressed zero of the concerns raised by Jobs 2 years earlier.
I don't know if there have been inherent performance issues with the drives, maybe that was sorted, but either way -- an SSD-only iMac with no optical drive would obviously have no other moving parts than the fan(s), which I'm all for. Once you go SSD... you know.
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You know those machines couldnt handle it right? You get this gimmicky form and sacrifices are made. MS is more than safe. They had no trouble in the 90's obviously and I can see why now. If Apple was always this limited and gimmicky and pricey...damn Gates must have never broken a sweat.
I would like to see them have awesome GPU's like yourself though obviously. Need the proper designs for that. Ive has no clue on doing that.
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But the most popular Macs are the ones with no discrete GPU at all - the 13 MB and the Airs. Why would game developers start writing for a small subset of the Mac community which in itself is a small subset of the personal computer market?
The latest rumors on this new iMac computer that Apple is supposedly making is that they're ditching the 3.5" floppy drive. I have many old floppies which would be impossible to use without an external drive.
You could insert 8-tracks, cassettes, 5.25" floppies, VHS, etc etc... At some point they have to move on...
that argument sounds like the person that wrote this article in 1998
By the time Apple discontinued support for floppies the format had already become largely impractical. 1.44MB wasn't enough for much of anything anymore.
As computing goes.... its kind of silly for desktop computers to keep striving for more and more thinness.
Who was complaining about the size of the current imac models? it is an imaginary issue.
I'd much rather get power, graphics and expandability. oh yeah the mac pro is ancient in its current format. and... mac mini... no expandability at all.
on a serious note, will apple finally add a touchscreen capability??? graphics professionals would dig that.
Who was complaining about the size of the current imac models? it is an imaginary issue.
I'd much rather get power, graphics and expandability. oh yeah the mac pro is ancient in its current format. and... mac mini... no expandability at all.
on a serious note, will apple finally add a touchscreen capability??? graphics professionals would dig that.
I think that group would rather have something akin to a Wacom-style pen digitizer.
Can they PLEASE fit strip LED lighting along the bottom of the chin? I think that'd be super cool, and they could pitch it as "Screen Matte-ing Solution".
Yeah I agree I don't think we really need a thinner iMac, sure If it can be thin without having to sacrifice features or hardware I have no problem..
Also what worries me is the glass is glued to the display, It may eliminate the dust problem behind the glass, but I think it will no longer be user repairable/upgradable, and could potentially raise repair costs..
Also what worries me is the glass is glued to the display, It may eliminate the dust problem behind the glass, but I think it will no longer be user repairable/upgradable, and could potentially raise repair costs..
Looking again at the full sized image, that photo appears to show the full width of the machine as there's rounded corners in both corners of the image.
So, if that is a 21.5" model that HDD looks like it'd be bigger than 2.5"
So, if that is a 21.5" model that HDD looks like it'd be bigger than 2.5"
Apple's MO is to make its older ones look less sleek and outdated. Or in other words, they want to make the new one feel more modern, streamlined and sleeker. One certain way to do it is to make things thinner and Apple won't stop doing that. The only exceptions is if it interferes with a critical selling points due to technical difficulties, such as iPad's 10 hour battery life which led to a slightly thicker 3rd gen iPad.
I agree that it's not necessarily a good thing when it comes to desktop machines but iMac(and Mac Mini) are somewhat odd creatures that carry ethos of both mobile and desktop worlds and Apple will keep doing what they have been doing in the mobile to these computers which is to make the new ones appear more modern and sleek.
As a side note, it's weird to read so many happy campers here when the lack of new iMacs hasn't really hurt Apple's bottom line one bit in the grand scheme of things. But we're in Macrumors after all.
Having a SSD for your boot drive and a 1/2/3/TB data drive for your mapped home/account(s) would be a smart move by Apple, not to mention more than one GPGPU on-board in the 7800M vein would dominate the all-in-one and general higher end desktop solution market.
I cant wait any longer I'm just gonna opt for the current model. I can get the basic for £879 with my Uni student discount. Then I'll upgrade the ram to 16GB, I reckon this new one will be more expensive as the article does suggest, perhaps by several hundred quid. A 2.5Ghz quad core is more than enough for me. I already have a lot of expense thus far this year with many extra books needed for my second year, gym membership, car insurance and my rowing club.
All the pennies do add up to quite a substantial sum
All the pennies do add up to quite a substantial sum