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Apple Launches New Cheaper 21.5-Inch iMac Starting at $1,099
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I've read every page of this comment section. The above quote says it all. What more is left to be said than the above?
No - that would be to resurrect an old but respected brand such as NeXT and stick the logo on a crappy underpowered Dell...
It's not great in terms of cooling, that's about all I can say.
Then again, it's quiet 99.999% of the time unless I manually bump the fans up, so maybe it is pretty good in that regard.
I think they mean less power as well, which would probably come into play more if you had a lot of them (I guess). Less power used (keeping performance the same of course) would keep it cooler as well. The same could be said of physical footprint.
I wouldn't mind the mini being the size of an Apple TV but I'd definitely need a better way to plug all my things in before even thinking about getting one like that.
Exactly. Without the SSD its going to be a total dog. But yeah, grandma won't mind since she computes like she drives.
What a crock... lol, Apple at it again ripping customers off, more specifically, ignorant blatant customers who don't know what they want, whats available, what they need or whats even best for them.
Love my rMBP, but I hated the price.
Love my rMBP, but I hated the price.
This will under perform as a desktop. It is essentially a MacBook Air in desktop form. Except MBA's at least get a SSD......and are portable.
It's possible they are also doing maintenance at this time, but most of that can be done on a rolling basis as long as you have enough redundancy (which Apple certainly would have).
Yeah, I really have no idea.
8gb is not the minimum, 4gb is the base minimum on all airs. Plus 16gb is not required unless you are a power user and do heavy duty photo video editing etc.
I'm guessing they want to spend the $100 getting their own 16 GB of RAM anyways, making whatever sticks it ships with kind of unnecessary in their case (first thing I did even before booting mine was replace the RAM—in hindsight, a bit of bad judgement on my part).
It turbos at 2.7 GHz genius
That said, you wind up being right completely by accident because it's a dual core CPU, not a quad core.
Development work goes much faster with a 2560x1440 pixel count screen because of the need for multiple source file editing windows, debugging consoles, etc. Skip any 21 inch 1920x1080 model like this one.
Yeah, even small companies have a dev environment and simply push changes to the production environment once ready. Then you're 100% it works, and have a minimum of downtime.
And still not updating my 2009 i7 iMac.
Thanks Apple, you continue to make my 2009 iMac purchase the best Apple purchase of my life.
Thanks Apple, you continue to make my 2009 iMac purchase the best Apple purchase of my life.
MBA includes a Mouse (trackpad) and Keyboard, iMac having more USB ports and Thunderbolt ports are a bit moot when your machine has such low specs. A user buying the Low priced model is not in it for a work horse to do any sort of GPU or processor heavy work or expanding much past what comes in the box.
Even the base model Mac Mini, let alone the i7 upgrade, is better in terms of specs for $ in comparison to this machine. My i7 Mac Mini with two 23 inch monitors wired keyboard and a trackpad, RAM upgrade and an SSD upgrade is only about $100 bucks more that this and only because I bought it a year and a half ago. Today I'd probably be able to do the same set up for cheaper than $1099. AIO are about space saving AND value. This thing may save space but it's spec'd itself out of any usefulness when compared to anything else in the Mac lineup...
It would probably be more worth a consumer's time to look into a used iMac from the last 3 years than get this model IMO.
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It's a Curate's Egg - not cheap enough to be a no-brainer and not powerful or innovative enough to be exciting.
New Air, iWatch, New AppleTV, New iMacs are the rumored major updates this year.
I am personally speculating that they might bring back the MacBook made out of the Polycarbonate they used for the iPhone Color. But that's based on nothing other than what I would do if I was a product manager at Apple. The reason being is that it would be much lower cost than milling aluminum and they could possibly do a MacBook Color line that would be perfect for students... More durable, cheaper, and fun. It could be something like the a prettier version of the Colorware Air.
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I still believe that this price point for these specs is way to high. Its way too high to purchase as a kids computer and even so a kids computer needs to be able to play basic games at 30 fps for them to want them. They should of saved money on the cases by making them plastic and getting them down to the 600 range where these specs belong. Apple is beginning to worry me. Are the days of the Newton returning? How is a 1000 dollar low power computer going to compete in china?