They built an entire studio but can't afford the few hundred $ for more RAM in their workstations?
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Apple Announces Redesigned iMac With M1 Chip and Seven Color Options
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Going back for any reason looks bad on the marketing slides, as if the perfect forum had been achieved already. A terrible message to send hence not going to happen I guess.
They spent it on better quality mics and interface. In a few months, they will max out the RAM for more tracks and instruments.
Perhaps this iMac isn't the right fit for a professional sound studio anyway.
This is the base-model, after all.
Maybe wait for the 27" replacement.
Besides... if you're running a business... the cost of the equipment is the least of your worries. You have rent/mortgage, staff salaries, insurance, etc.
Humans cost more than the equipment ever will!
This is the base-model, after all.
Maybe wait for the 27" replacement.
Besides... if you're running a business... the cost of the equipment is the least of your worries. You have rent/mortgage, staff salaries, insurance, etc.
Humans cost more than the equipment ever will!
Why does a more powerful machine require a bigger screen? They should quit making all-in-one iMacs and go back to upgradable computers with separate displays. Especially now that USB-c can deliver power and 5K video to the display with one thin cable, why does anyone want an all-in-one anymore?
That'd be a remarkably precise mistake to make. Worst case, they buy new Macs with the new money and sell the old. Is this a real scenario you've seen or encountered?
It's hypothetical anyway given that M1 Macs don't support enough RAM for these professionals to use. The Intel iMac goes up to 128. I'd probably want user-swappable RAM if there were a $1000 difference between base and loaded, but such large amounts of RAM would probably physically require separate memory modules that would be user-upgradable.
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Think about students, office people or families. They just want a device that works out of the box. We are macrumors people. But they don’t represent the average person. Not every student is a techie nor is every business person, legal profession, accountant, etc. Now sure while it may not be hard and I may be over stereotyping all in one is pretty easy to set up. Plug and play.
Plus having upgradable components defeats the whole energy efficiency and integration that apples silicon team brings. The Mac Pro is the one exception. Sure while there is the argument of just leaving it open for PCI expansion cards (notwithstanding the Mac Pro) but limited to stuff like sound cards for instance, it creates headache people want a device that works. It’s easy and simple. From an environmental standpoint too, Apple devices have a pretty long lifespan if you take care of them get years of updates and have a great supply chain to boot. Sure while you have that display problem, they do a good job at offsetting their footprint - especially to be net 0 by 2030. All of the stuff can be recycled as well.
If you watched the video, the computer is in what you call the "chin." Everything above that is the display.The chin... why?
Agreed. Then the iPad would not be a generic tablet.Maybe Apple should add one to the iPad then as well since they’re using the same chips now.
I fear we will never see user-swappable RAM on iMacs again. Just M series with integrated RAM.
Well, your comparison to Porche (assuming 911 model) woud be quite embarising, but doesn’t really apply, as 911 design history is all about continuity, unlike iMac. Plus internals in 911 don’t get underpowered...
I would really love a Jony Ive-style design-video featuring the current Apple designers, arguing for the design-choices they made on this one.
I am fully behind MKBHDs reasoning and suggestions for a better design:
The many shades of the same color on each device are a mess to my eyes. And that white, rather thick white bezel. Yuk.
I am fully behind MKBHDs reasoning and suggestions for a better design:
The many shades of the same color on each device are a mess to my eyes. And that white, rather thick white bezel. Yuk.
I think in an alternate timeline, where there was no COVID-19 and no chip shortage, I really do think that Apple would've harnessed TSMC full power and released the iMac with an M1X SoC and the iPad Pro with the A15X CPU...Apple would never have put the M1 in all of their new products....but because they can't get TSMC to start manufacturing these new chips and maybe TSMC gave an impossible timeline to Apple of when they could start manufacturing these new chips (M1X and A15X), that Apple acquiesced and just told TSMC just to put the M1 in everything.
I really do think Apple didn't want to go down this route but was forced to do so.....Maybe TSMC told Apple, "we can't make these new chips until 2H22 and Apple looking at their roadmap, and having publicly stated as "completing the transition to Apple Silicon in 2 years in all of their Macs," Apple was left with no choice but to put the M1 in the iMac. Otherwise, they would risk failing to keep their promise and having the entire roadmap jeopardized due to the domino effect. They could've gone this route because there is just no competition with their M1 chips at the moment. They are just so superior to anything else on the market that Apple just decided to rest on their laurels. If the competition was more competitive in this space and the reviews weren't as glowing, I'm sure Apple would've found some way to release the M1X in the iMac and the A15X in the iPad Pro.
Not sure that's true, if Apple didn't want to publicly put the M1 in the iPad Pro they could easily have renamed the chip in the A series.
Never had any issue with color correction on my G5 iMac, nor any eye strain at all. Can you provide any pointers to places that describe in detail the issues you mention? I did a search and all I found is claims of bezels being "distracting"... but that's not objective (if it was objective, my eyes would be more comfortable with black bezels, and they are not).