Apple Discontinues 27-Inch iMac

[Basic75]

the specs on the iMac 24" good enough for me. The monitor seemed visually not that different other than that the studio's monitor is wider

Wider and taller, they both have an aspect ratio of 16:9.

 

[Basic75]

Sad to see the 27” iMac go, it was the right computer at the right price point for a lot of people. The studio display is just ridiculously priced for what you get, imho.

The original 27" iMac was a real bargain, it was not that much more expensive than other companies' comparable displays! But those days are long over. With the price of the Studio display being what it is I'll stay on 110ppi until the market for 220ppi starts showing some more life. Like I said here on other occasions, some slightly jagged fonts are perfectly acceptable to me given that a pair of decent 27" 1440p IPS displays goes for under 500 bucks.

 

[Basic75]

Thanks, I thought my present one was a 2021 but it is a 2020. Good to know! I would never buy a Mac from eBay for professional use but this would be for casual use. I would much rather buy a 2022 M1 27" but Apple is predicatably troublesome with their Mac product line!

You might want to install MacTracker from the Mac App Store, it gives a good overview and has some information on all Macs ever made.

 

[Arctic Moose]

- The cooling from the MacBook will probably be worse when closed

It never gets even remotely warm, so I see no reason to investigate.

- You can't use the third monitor (OK, if two monitors are enough for you)

I actually only use one most of the time, and I have absolutely no use for more than two, and even if I did I would not tolerate one that is not the same size as the others.

- It's awkward to climb under the table if you want to take the MacBook Pro with you

I take it with me so seldomly that not having it visible is definitely worth it.

=> Why no Mac Studio?

1. The Mac Studio was still months away from being released when I bought it.
2. Even though it doesn’t happen very often, I still want to have the option to take it with me.

8GB can easily fill up with a couple of light office applications. Everything is just written like **** nowadays. There used to be a time when 8MB of RAM could run an entire system with office applications etc. open.

My SE/30 had 1 MB, and ran everything just fine.

Compression and swap works so well now that I really wonder if any remotely normal user running a few office apps and a browser with ten tabs could identify a computer with 8 GB over one with 16 GB in a blind test.

Do you also have the issue of macOS occasionally mixing up the order of the displays or does that only happen with non-Apple display setups?

No.

I never had any issues with the pair of HP Z27 monitors I had prior to the ASD introduction either.

 

[Basic75]

My SE/30 had 1 MB, and ran everything just fine.

Yeah, right, and 640KB ought to be enough for anybody. But that's not today, and that's not in 5 years when M1 Macs will still have enough CPU horsepower for a lot of applications that will however be even more bloated than today.

No.

I never had any issues with the pair of HP Z27 monitors I had prior to the ASD introduction either.

Interesting. I wonder what the difference is between some people not seeing this issue and some people seeing it frequently.

 

[k27]

1. Even though it doesn’t happen very often, I still want to have the option to take it with me.

In the PC world, in such cases, some users have a PC and a laptop. The PC is usually very powerful, and the laptop is something relatively cheap that is not comparable to a MacBook, but good enough for the application.

In the Apple world, fewer people do this because it becomes much more expensive due to the prices Apple wants to see.

 

[Arctic Moose]

fewer people do this because it becomes much more expensive due to the prices Apple wants to see.

It is more an issue of practicality than it is cost. With a single computer there is no need to worry about sync issues, keeping configurations up to date or doing any other double maintenance.