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Apple Announces Lighter, Thinner iMac Models with Fusion Drive
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I think that maybe you should word the transfer speed of "288Mbps" differently.Yep. You're right. There's absolutely no way an 8x Blu-Ray drive can *possibly* transfer it's 288Mbps (max) over USB 2.0 or 3.0.
It might otherwise be lost on the intended audience (or rather construed as support of the original argument).
YES!! I wonder when in December ... it better be before the holidays or they will be missing a lot more sale
Probably not. The 21" tech specs says " 8GB (two 4GB) of 1600MHz DDR3 memory ". Two 4GB is extremely likely two 4GB so-DIMMs.
The problem with the 21" model is that you'll probably need to remove the screen and dive in like you are replacing the HDD/SDD drive to get to these DIMM slots. A huge pain to get to but replaceable. Most 21" users will need to pay a service technician to do it. It is upgradable. It is just not a "break out your trusty screwdriver" DIY project.
You have some serious comprehension problems if you think he said it was fused shut.
Yes, the chin and back are now one piece.
Yes, the glass and screen are now one piece.
You'll get at the internals of the new iMac the same way you got at the internals of the old iMac, by popping the screen off the front. Only now, since the screen & glass are fused, you won't end up getting dust between them when you do so.
If they were 'fused shut' *Apple* wouldn't be able to get into them.
Ok. Just wait till ifixit shows you that it is not as simple as popping the screen off anymore. Do you think the whole screen is held on by magnets like the glass covering of the current iMacs?
Wow, you are hilarious.
I think that maybe you should word the transfer speed of "288Mbps" differently.
It might otherwise be lost on the intended audience (or rather construed as support of the original argument).
You think I should have said 36MBps? Data transfer rates are typically measured in bits, rather than bytes. (It has to do with protocol overheads which can cause a typical 8-bit byte to be represented by 10 or more bits 'on the wire'.)
thanks a lot Apple for crippling it for me and making it more expensive. I'm gonna have to scramble like crazy tomorrow to get the 2011 one from wherever I can.
Utterly disgusted that they have the nerve to charge £99 more for something which lacks an optical drive, an extremely slow 5400RPM hard drive and no user upgradeable ram and apparently no FW800 port without an adaptor I have several FW800 devices mainly my time machine backup. :O :O :O :O All for making it thinner, its a desktop. It wouldn't bother me if it was still as thick as a iMac G5 so long as it worked.
I just hope I can find somewhere what still sells the 2011 version, but so far its not been very promising. Everywhere i've looked this evening has been out of stock.
Utterly disgusted that they have the nerve to charge £99 more for something which lacks an optical drive, an extremely slow 5400RPM hard drive and no user upgradeable ram and apparently no FW800 port without an adaptor I have several FW800 devices mainly my time machine backup. :O :O :O :O All for making it thinner, its a desktop. It wouldn't bother me if it was still as thick as a iMac G5 so long as it worked.
I just hope I can find somewhere what still sells the 2011 version, but so far its not been very promising. Everywhere i've looked this evening has been out of stock.
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Ok. Just wait till ifixit shows you that it is not as simple as popping the screen off anymore. Do you think the whole screen is held on by magnets like the glass covering of the current iMacs?
Wow, you are hilarious.
I'm hilarious to believe that the new iMac's glass is held in place in basically the same way as the old one? Or you're hilarious for assuming they've turned it into one big, hermetically sealed piece that not even Apple can open?
I'm going to guess the latter.
You could probably place the USB powered (1 cable for power and data) SuperDrive on the stand and not lose desk space...
Archives perhaps.... When an iTunes library is 120GB and an iPhoto Library is 180GB.... you'll want a backup that won't fail.
As someone who has lost Media before because of a hard drive failure.... I don't trust Hard drives the way I do DVDs and BluRay discs.
The Cloud can only hold so much... I'd prefer a Burner in the new iMac... but I have 2 external burners anyway....
I am dissapointed about the lack of a FW800 port !!
Would they rather I give them $20 for a movie or $2000 for an iMac.
I would never do the former and now I won't be doing the latter either.
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Not on the iMac it wasnt, at least not the first seven versions that shipped with only CD-ROM/DVD-ROM readers. It wasnt until 2001 that the iMac got CD-R/CD-RW.
More importantly though optical drives for long terms storage have been replaced by superior technology: broadband and the internet.
Optical is a horrible solution for long term backups; inconsistencies in manufacturing of the discs, quality of the read/write heads, storage climate, physical damage, interaction between the ink and glue on the labels acting as corrosive. If everyone were using the old-school gold CDs and storing the finished product in a climate controlled, fire-proof safe sure optical is an okay back-up medium.
In a era of accelerating broadband though optical is a dreadful as a long term storage solution. Constantly backed-up, redundant, off-site storage is cheaper, more efficient, more effective and safer.
I have my data in at least four separate locations:
1) Backblaze (off site, constantly updated, emergency backup) unlimited storage currently at 2TB
2) Time Machine (local, constantly updated, dumb-ass mistakes)amortized cost of an external HD
3) Dropbox and/or iCloud for current projects
4) Git/SVN repos for current projects
5) Local hard drive
Ive been burning discs since the mid-90s when burners cost $1000, discs were $10 a pop and the write mechanisms were so delicate if you jostled the unit even slightly your disc was toast (remember Adaptecs Toast, thats where they got the name). I have discs that are 20 years old that still read, I have discs that are 5 years old that are useless. Its totally unreliable as long term storage. Actually worse than the longevity of discs is the fact most of the stuff on those 20 year old discs are completely unusable, try finding a PPC Mac with Director 5 on it. The true threat to digital content isnt the ability to save it for long periods of time, its the ability to read it decades later.
It may well.
But notice that the entry-level 21.5" model does not and cannot have the hybrid/fusion technology.
Which Momentus drive has 128GB of flash?
Let's talk about OS-level support for dynamically allocating apps/data between the flash and hardware sides, too.
Maybe not so much in the minority. There are other reasons for regular use of optical media. For instance, I regularly output files to be sent to printers for the printing of publications. Files far too big to be sent by email.
Such files are ideally written to inexpensive disposable CDs. Printers do not return media.