Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Announces Lighter, Thinner iMac Models with Fusion Drive
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
According to the Apple Store, the new design is 75% more glare free.
So... the matte screen guys won.
As we knew we would.
Only took you 5 years.
----------
Steve called Blu-ray "a bag of hurt". Viewed it as transitory as well.
Lol!!! That grandma comment made me chuckle because its true. I did like the 21".... Until I saw you cannot upgrade the ram so must pay apple tax and no DVD in a desktop.... Hmmm forcing you to use the apple App Store no doubt paying apple prices, or maybe steam with the handful of games that work?
But I have to say its damn sexy! Wonder how much the fusion drive is..? And as for 512mb video ram in 2012! My iPhone has more!!
Something to do with licensing and royalty fees. But folks say Blu-Ray doesn't matter as the content has gone online.
Still have to wonder, how you stream a 50 GB worth of Blu Ray quality movie.
If you are concerned about graphics cards, they got updated and improved by a significant margin today. You should be happy.
I hear ya.
That's why I spend a butload on a early 2008 Mac Pro about a year and a half.
Since then I've upped the RAM from 4 to 16 and upgraded HDs. Right now my OS and core apps are on a 128GB Samsung SSD while the rest sits on a WD black.
I use the RAM to run several VMs.
Now that I'm converting my media to iTunes now my culprit is time machine size. I'm maxing out the 2TB WD Green.
I watched the presentation today and loved the side view... until I saw the rest. For some reason I thought they did some voodo and made it all flat, but then I saw the bulge in the back... and same with the display... looks like edge to edge glass but the display is not edge to edge.
Visually the only plus is thinner to grab with your hand if you want to tilt the screen but who does that so often. I think it's a one step forward two steps back thing.
In regards to RAM upgradable to 32GB... I think it's by Apple only IE non user serviceable.
It's as if Apple lets you upgrade RAM easy on the Mac Mini to get you into the ecosystem and then once you taste it you are paying hefty price.
The 13 inch MB Pro I think is a good price however...
Don't be messing up the discussion with facts. Apple invented the hybrid drive and will now sue Seagate for making one first.
The new iMac is thin on the edges but deceivingly fat in the middle (like my ex-girlfriend). They did not show this in pictures today.
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-new-imac-thicker-than-it-seems
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apples-new-imac-thicker-than-it-seems
Apple invented Friction Stir Welding to make the iPad
But jokes aside, you have to appreciate the fact that they do. Only a handful if not the only one in the US, that goes into such minute detail about everything.
Considering that we are all sort of mentally conditioned by WalMart type stores that "If it just works, I am fine with it and it should be very cheap as well".
At the moment I can't afford many of the products Apple displayed today, but I have to admire the work they are putting into every little detail. That's sorely missing in a lot of companies and a lot of products.
Can see the Thunderbolt Display getting the same thinning treatment in the coming months. Which is a truth - both the old iMac and TB display are damn heavy units to lug around. And makes me already see the age in the TBD sitting on my desk.
But you have to hand it to Apple. Their products are all about sex. Continually refined sexiness. Apart from the iPod Nano which is a complete u-turn and anomaly in their line.
With such a thin iMac it's clear they're appealing to hairdresser POS desks and architecture admin receptions, I guess the last saving grace for the uber-pro Mac user is a refined Mac Pro in 2013 with the killer graphics and expand ability needed.
But you have to hand it to Apple. Their products are all about sex. Continually refined sexiness. Apart from the iPod Nano which is a complete u-turn and anomaly in their line.
With such a thin iMac it's clear they're appealing to hairdresser POS desks and architecture admin receptions, I guess the last saving grace for the uber-pro Mac user is a refined Mac Pro in 2013 with the killer graphics and expand ability needed.
Ok folks, I feel a bit let down for the people who wanted a 21" iMac, due to the lack of user accessible ram but I'm going for a 27" so doesn't affect me.
The lack of a optical drive a drag but just means I'm going to buy a bluray writer instead.
The fact it's going to cost me £100 more for the updated model than last years? After the rumours that were going around I'm just happy it only went up by that much. And the screen being fused, and not allowing a build up of dust to form between display and glass has sealed the deal.
The lack of a optical drive a drag but just means I'm going to buy a bluray writer instead.
The fact it's going to cost me £100 more for the updated model than last years? After the rumours that were going around I'm just happy it only went up by that much. And the screen being fused, and not allowing a build up of dust to form between display and glass has sealed the deal.
Before I got my E2008 Mac Pro I purchased new at the time mini (from the refurb store), it was one of the first ones with dual displays.
I was totally surprised in a bad way how slow the built in drive was.
I upgraded to a solid state and booted into SL in 17 seconds or so.
Same thing with my Macbook. I have a white Macbook I think E2008 (the last gen before plastic unibody). And it was okay but then I installed WD blue and saw a big speed boost, then WD black and another jump, then a SSD. Seems like each time I made the jump the machine became much much faster. Oh yes, I did up the RAM from 2GB to 4GB shortly after I got it.
The stock HDs Apple uses are mega mega slow.
I think this is one of those things if you don't know the difference and just want the Mac experience (OS, iTunes, garage band, ...) then you'll go with the plain one. 5400 is so ... 4 years ago.
You can still buy blu-ray burners on your own dime. Apple just doesn't sell them stock. That doesn't mean they don't work on Macs...
Honestly, some people don't even bother thinking before whining on here.
Reading through this thread, it's as if iMacs have never had mobile GPUs before, if anyone anticipated anything different, well, you're quite stupid.
Why bother with an all in one if you're gonna have a bunch of **** hanging from it just to make it right?
I hear you on the optical drive. It's not THAT big of a deal for the vast majority of users. I happen to also have one of the Apple external 'super' drives. I keep it centred on the base of the stand for the Thunderbolt display. It actually works quite well (and looks 'good') positioned there, and hides the cable behind the screen.
The optical drive removal is just "keeping with the times". I appreciate that some use it more than others, but going forward you're going to find less and less need for one. Apple is always first in those areas. Not to mention, optical drives have for me at least... been #1 on my list of hardware failures of all time. PC or Mac. I extremely rarely have had any other part die on me outside of the HDD I accidentally dropped on the floor outside of failing DVD drives. So if that means I don't need to take in a whole iMac... personally for me I'm ok with it.
Might sound like an overly optimistic viewpoint and drinking the 'Apple juice' but honestly the external drives available aren't that bad - it certainly would NOT stop me from buying a Mac of any kind because they are quick to drop 'legacy' specs.
This "ExpressCache" being implemented in the new iMac should be present in the new Retina 13". Sony uses smaller form-factor laptop HDDs, so perhaps the new rMBP13 could implement it too. 128GB is pretty fast, but such small storage makes the new rMBP a premium variation of the MBAir 13".
The difference is probably that this fusion drive works as advertised, whereas the momentus XP is only a hair faster than a traditional 7200 drive. And very far from a read SSD. All tests out there confirm this.
I expect the fusion drive to deliver actual SSD performance, similar to what I got with a 80GB SSD boot drive, and a secondary 500GB HDD. My system was equivalent in speed to a pure SSD because i kept only media files on the HDD. Everything else, including my user folder, was on the SSD. You never play media files at more than 1 mbit / second so speed is irrelevant...