Sorry, you’re living in your own world now. Either buy it or don’t. This isn’t build it so Ruka Snow buys it. Its configured for the 99% who will use every port Apple offers on it.
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What harm do those legacy ports do to you? Do you simply want to spite others by removing them?
Make it cheaper with less. I have fully switched to USB-C. I have no need for other ports and are just wasted space and cost.
We just need to be patient with this aging a bit and Apple dropping prices. The dismissal of the 27” iMac has ruined a lot of hope.
It's not an overreach with the specs offered. M1 Pro 16GB should have been the base model for $1,499.
I agree on the Display. At the very most $1,200 to match the old LG 5k with most of the same features.
The problem is the market is saturated with these monitors at specs/prices/margins Apple doesn't care to dabble in and more and more manufactures are even jumping in on the USB-C w/ Power Delivery.
You can find decent 1080p displays for under $200.
Here's a actually decent LG 27" 4k 350nit display with USB-C PD for less than $500: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1467177-REG/lg_27bl85u_w_27_27bl85uw_4k_ultra.html
It just isn't a space where Apple could make a dent because anyone could come along and do the exact same thing for cheaper because Apple is always going to go all out on materials and design. With the Studio and XDR displays they are in a niche where they can can stand out.
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Jumping back to that LG 4k display for a minute... A $1,499 M1 Pro Mac (mini or Studio) and that monitor for less than $2,000 would be an amazing starter setup for someone getting into Design, Video/YouTube, Audio production or a Student. I think Apple is way underestimating the demand for a desktop that fits that price/performance window. I think many people were just waiting for a $400 M1 Pro BTO option on the Mac mini and were not expecting to jump $900 to a full Pro product. As it stands, the spec gap between a Mac mini with 16GB RAM for $1,100 and the base Mac Studio for $2,000 is pretty huge.
Apple isn’t taking off those ports and go wing a $1000 off. Those port represent about $100 of BOM and Apple will still charge the same price. People on here have lost their damn minds.
I remember telling people before this event that Apple had a gaping hole between the Mac Mini and the Mac Pro, and they badly needed to return to desktops. The argument against that was laptops and iMacs is all consumers want. What a shock this must be for so many people out there. 27” iMac gone for now. I still think Apple will come out later with a larger iMac.
You're assuming they wouldn't reduce the price. $100 off is perfect if they did.
Same for the Studio Display. I would have loved them leaving off the camera and speakers, which would also be able to remove the A13 chip. That could make this display much cheaper.
I simply want the option for the port not to be there. It wouldn’t be hard to made a SKU with a little more aluminium instead of a useless port for those of us that have no use for SD.
I thought it was clear I was joking. I am not going to do anything until I see some real world usage numbers. But I would keep the Mac Pro anyway, too much invested now, and I could always turn it into a kick ass Windows machine.
Ah yes, the favorite game of MacRumors forum posters: Spend Apple’s Money.
I'm quite disappointed about the Apple Event.
No iMac 27-inch (and maybe never more), new product line Mac Studio with very ugly design (basically a tower Mac Mini), insane price and obviously non-upgradable with third-party suppliers (pay the Apple tax and shut up).
Go on using Intel Macs.
No iMac 27-inch (and maybe never more), new product line Mac Studio with very ugly design (basically a tower Mac Mini), insane price and obviously non-upgradable with third-party suppliers (pay the Apple tax and shut up).
Go on using Intel Macs.
Spoken like someone who doesn’t have the manufacturing and supply chain experience that Apple has. Maintaining another SKU with a completely different enclosure just to remove one port would probably add significant complexity to the line.
Yeah, we’ll the rest of us are perfectly fine with the port selection and $100 is meaningless at the price points that Apple is selling this computer for, but I digress.
It's great for gaming but the absolutely terrible and cheap anti-reflective film (reminiscent of the old plastic matte screen protectors) they put on every monitor nowadays keeps text looking fuzzy/"sparkling" and turns the blacks to grey.
On the 5K iMac, everything you read looks like it could have been printed on paper.
All new and even more expensive. How will purchase be possible while fighting serious inflation?
I think we’re in either the bargaining phase with a few still in the anger phase. Always fun to watch.
Apple is neither a boutique, nor a bespoke company anymore. Your request is simply in the realm of fantasy.
Apple can charge a premium for that 5k display because (other than the LG), there isn’t anything else like it on the market.
I think Apple must have secured all the 5k panels. Otherwise there surely would be others.
Was the "Peek" aspect of this presentation the Apple TV+ trailers (that we've already seen in other places)?
1. It is not a problem. It is a fact. Apple ignored semantics.
2. Not my problem either. And it is not an argument either. It is just a statement of a fact: Tim Cook upsells. The problem here is when Tim Cook focuses on upselling instead of innovating.
3. Yes, better value. The Pro Motion screen is not worth $150.
4. I am not buying it. But to call it a "premium" is an understatement. To charge 50% more would be a premium. To charge four times more is daylight robbery.
5. I am no professional user, but I think this monitor is off. It looks like too much the display on the discontinued 27-inch iMac. Same size, same resolution. Costs $1,599, while the 27-inch iMac used to cost $1,799, just $200 more, and came with a whole computer inside.
6. If Apple is going to raise the prices (again), I do not care if it is reintroduced or not.
7. I was not even aware of that last year.
I sincerely hope Qualcomm, and Intel, and AMD, and everyone else catches up with Apple. Competition is very important as it puts pressure in favor of consumers. Apple's current pricing strategy is partially because the M1 has no contenter.