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Apple Adds New 256 GB and 512 GB Flash Storage Options to iMac

Hmm, maybe the 256 SSD isn't a good deal? So basically I'm paying $1499 without a hard drive or SSD, but they want to charge me an extra $300 to put in a drive...bizarre pricing Apple.
 
Uh, it's not just Apple charging much higher prices than 3rd party drives. Have you tried to configure an OptiPlex from Dell with an SSD? We buy our machines with the cheapest drive we can get from them and replace the drive with an SSD as soon as we open the box.

A 128 GB SSD adds $200 over the standard 250 GB drive with our pricing...
 
HenryDJP said:
You're not being forced into anything. As a consumer you have a choice, as Apple being a retailer they can design their business practices any way they so please. It's up to you to take it or go to another competitor. It's that simple.
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No, you have no choice these days, as Apple's desktop lineup is a joke at best. If you want to go OSX you have to eat their dogfood. Most people that I know don't want an AOI at all, but a Minitower with accessible guts. Won't happen for reasons related to Apple's profit.

Overall it's very bad design at a ridiculous price. I mean c'mon, people now add external SSDs as boot drives to their 2000$ AOIs. That's just insane.
 
mattopotamus said:
so apple is basically telling us, "do not be an early adopter."
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This is a great idea, continuously improve their products to help level off the unbelievable varying sales cycle highs and lows. It was this variable sales cycle that made some last quarter specific product sales look bad. Last year's quarter showed a new release, and this year's quarter showed the end of the cycle.
 
Woyzeck said:
No, you have no choice these days, as Apple's desktop lineup is a joke at best. If you want to go OSX you have to eat their dogfood. Most people that I know don't want an AOI at all, but a Minitower with accessible guts. Won't happen for reasons related to Apple's profit.

Overall it's very bad design at a ridiculous price. I mean c'mon, people now add external SSDs as boot drives to their 2000$ AOIs. That's just insane.
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What about the Mac mini?
 
Anybody know how the SSD will be installed inside the iMac?

Will it replace the SATA port? Or simply eliminate the harddrive and plug the blade SSD?

Oh I'd love 1TB HDD + 256GB SSD. But no Fusion please? I'd like to be able to install Windows Bootcamp on the SSD.
 
Typical Apple pricing = I get my upgrade somewhere else...unless this isn't user replaceable, which in that case I will get the apple that still allows me to upgrade. And when (or if) this is gone...I will be going to...gulp (I turn red with shame)...I will be moving to Windows PC (There...I said it. I am so ashamed)
 
I could have predicted this would happen. Improvements are always made the day *after* I get something from Apple. This time I got (yesterday) a 27" i7 with fusion, even tho I really wanted all ssd. :confused:
 
Small White Car said:
Yes, but when it turns out that what one is getting performs as well as what one was asking for then one should be satisfied

That's how I felt when I learned last year about how 5400 drives had improved to the point of what I was really asking for. I used to complain about them being in the iMacs too but once someone told me that I was like "oh, my mistake."
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The 5400 RPM drive is plenty good enough if one compares performance to what PCs were capable of several years ago. Everybody wants more performance than the minimum acceptable performance, but that is wrong.



/s
 
Comparing the price of the SSD in an iMac isn't the same as buying it somewhere else.

Just like restuarants and bars mark up alcohol, the nevre... "wait this beer is $6 bucks, but I can buy a six pack for that much."

You either smuggle it in or buy the SSD and install it yourself, both have their risk.
 
mslide said:
The iMac is such a joke of a computer. 256GB SSD should be standard.
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256GB might be acceptable as standard storage for a notebook, but the 1TB fusion drive should be the standard base configuration for iMac. It does work flawlessly well, it's just a shame that it's an optional extra.
 
Jsameds said:
It will be to reduce heat output - quite vital in a machine that tightly packed.
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So for adding a questionable feature like thinness, you sacrifice performance, an optical drive, servicability and desktop components. Great deal...
 
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notthedark said:
NewEgg price for a 1TB Hybrid drive = $120.
Average NewEgg price for a 256 SSD = $200. Apple tax = $220.
Average NewEgg price for a 512 SSD = $450. Apple tax = $270.

Apple essentially charging massively higher than retail and I've lost count on the number of people who have commented that they would buy it. I need to meet these people because I have a few things I'd like to sell them myself. :D
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Send your iMac to NewEgg and have them install their SSD. I'd be interested to know what they'd charge.
Do you really think Apple should be selling you a fitted SSD for the same price that some third-party mail-order warehouse churns them out in grubby little brown cardboard packages?
Not everyone wants to be a do-it-yourself SSD installer.
 
Woyzeck said:
So for adding a questionable feature like thinness, you sacrifice performance. an optical drive, servicability and desktop components. Great deal...
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Was there a 7200rpm drive available for the fatter iMacs? Genuine question.
 
Jsameds said:
It will be to reduce heat output - quite vital in a machine that tightly packed.
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Also, 7200RPMs are bloody noisy too, based on the 3.5" model I had to get a USB Extension cable for to move it away from my desk!

Do agree with above posters that fusion drive should be the default option really, 128gb SSDs are not expensive now
 
In a few years we shall be saying:

- Remember the days we used spinning hard drives, LOL
- Remember the days a SSD was several hundred bucks and not even 1GB in size, LOL
 
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