I love how fat Schiller brags that the iMac is now fused shut. He probably likes to rub it in. He's been dying to force customers to upgrade their computers through Apple.
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Apple Announces Lighter, Thinner iMac Models with Fusion Drive
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I love how fat Schiller brags that the iMac is now fused shut. He probably likes to rub it in. He's been dying to force customers to upgrade their computers through Apple.
great.
Well I built a Hackintosh with a PC that went obsolete after I bought my iMac recently.
It was cool to do it and all, but after the hassle I didn't fine it super fast or anything. Plus it was finicky as hell. Put a flash drive in the USB ports and I got kernel Panic. Reboot and try again it works.
Hackintosh is a good experiment and its just that.
+1, except I don't need touch screen for a iMac, possiblle on a laptop.
My 2009 iMac 27" i7 works pretty decent, and has optical drive...
They removed it for a few reasons:
1. Saves money for them.
2. Optical drives in iMacs have been known to get discs stuck. Less repair, less moving parts.
3. Apple is pushing software distribution to iCloud and Mac App Store. They are trying to kill the optical drive and it's working.
PEOPLE LISTEN UP: The change is here. If you use an optical drive now, get used to living life without one. Convert all of your stuff to USB drives, store it in the cloud (Dropbox) or something else. Complaining won't get you anywhere with this.
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You actually typed that with a straight face? The fact that the *best* GPU on their "flagship" desktop is *at launch* the 12th fastest GPU means it's good for gaming???
Stop spouting nonsense - the highest GPU option for the iMac is the 12th fastest GPU in the world right now, and the first among mobile GPUs.
See here: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
Short of a FURNACE, this is as good as it can be with a 680M.
VESA mounts.
Unfortunately, this is not VESA compatible. (The stand still appears to be ****)
Um is it just me or does anyone else think this iMac is wide in the center? It's almost the same width as the previous iMac.
On the website Apple cleverly hide this fact and emphasis only the 5mm thick edge. They did exactly the same thing in the keynote even when Phil Schiller showed it in the flesh.
I know this makes clever marketing but maybe there's a back story behind all this. Like the engineers were unable to satisfy management with the overall thickness so the compromise was to make the edge thin and the center fat. It's obvious that management didn't get 100% what they wanted.
On the website Apple cleverly hide this fact and emphasis only the 5mm thick edge. They did exactly the same thing in the keynote even when Phil Schiller showed it in the flesh.
I know this makes clever marketing but maybe there's a back story behind all this. Like the engineers were unable to satisfy management with the overall thickness so the compromise was to make the edge thin and the center fat. It's obvious that management didn't get 100% what they wanted.
I think you nailed it. I believe the "form" folks are running wild @ Apple.
Because only the first-placed GPU is good for gaming, right? Spare me from such crap, please.
Ok I have several questions: Are there 2 physical 2,5" drives in the new iMac 27"? One SSD and one HDD? Or are those Flash sticks like with the MacBook Air
and Retina MacBook pro? Is the HDD user upgradeable/repairable? How does Boot Camp work with the Fusion drive? Am I able to turn it off completely because I actually like to have both OS X and Windows on Flash as well as my games and programms (256GB should be enough) and keep all my movies and music on the HDD.
and Retina MacBook pro? Is the HDD user upgradeable/repairable? How does Boot Camp work with the Fusion drive? Am I able to turn it off completely because I actually like to have both OS X and Windows on Flash as well as my games and programms (256GB should be enough) and keep all my movies and music on the HDD.
I'm thinking the same thing. I wanna buy a 2011 high end and just stick with that for now.
It is working? Ironically even Apple isn't able to supply its own software(The whole package) in iTunes. Example - Logic Pro.
Why no option for a 512gb SSD?
512 would be just nice for me but you know they will hammer you with regards to a 768 ...
512 would be just nice for me but you know they will hammer you with regards to a 768 ...
I've been barking up the "kill optical" tree a long time, but until most software is available for download (or, I guess, on a USB stick), you're going to hurt consumers and developers.
I also agree with the posters who are saying, "it's a desktop, it's not going anywhere" as a reason they aren't forgiving Apple for cutting the "bulk" of an optical drive.
How long do you think it will be before mobile GPU's get to the level of say a current 6970
I looked on the website and I can't find a single photo that shows a true side shot of the new iMac so that we can see how thick or thin it really is.
Wait that's what I said?
Let me try to elucidate further: so how does the stock GPU rank?