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Apple Rumored to Launch 27-Inch Mini-LED iMac With ProMotion in Early 2022 [Updated]
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Exactly what I think.
But 5K for 32" is not going to be as crisp clear as current 27" 5K, 6K is needed.
I own a 4K 32" and comparing side by side with a 4K 27" it's a crap; it will be similar for a 5K 32" comparing with my 5K 27" iMac.
But, without shrink its absurdly wide chin and adding a height adjustable stand, 32" iMac will surely be too high to get optimized sight line.
So I'm asking for a M1 Pro/Max baseboard in a Pro Display XDR! Must be not affordable for me.
It would suck if the iMac 27" remains the same screen size.
And built in it with that solid VPN server ripped off Mac OS server, plus 'dnsmasq' or alike.
I'm currently running the last version of MacOS server with VPN server support on a Mac Mini 2010 at work and a MBP 2012 at home. The beauty of Apple's VPN server is its supports of Bonjour across VPN link, like pinging my home iMac from my office with 'ping myIMac.local', without any complex configuration in VPN setting except with the aid of the great utility dnsmasq (a DHCP+DNS server, running on the same two VPN servers).
Great news! Wanted to replace my late 2012 iMac for a long time. I don't mind it being 27 inch - rather have pro motion and mini LED than 30 inch. I also want wifi 6E, blutooth 5.2, ARMv9 and 3nm for the SOC. Apple logo on the chin. No notch. I don't use webcam at all.
An external monitor will be released along with either Mac mini pro/max or the redesigned pro tower.
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A 6k 32" iMac would only happen if:
- it is a proper "Pro" with pricing at least on par with the space grey one
- the ProDisplayXDR gets discontinued or replaced with something even more insane specced
Everything else points to a 27" (maybe a bit bigger, just not close to 32) to leave enough space for the "real professionals" buying an XDR for their (Mini)MacPro.
I went from the TB Display to a curved Ultra-Wide (21:9) monitor and it's the best monitor move I've ever done, and I've been through a few. All that horizontal resolution is glorious for coding, writing, diagraming, watching widescreen movies, etc. I may have to live with 16:10 on a MBP but on my desk I won't go back to 16:10 (or 16:9).
I wonder how many folks have done a similar move. I know lots of folks do not like ultra-wide monitors especially if they're curved but for me it's a glorious form factor.
Does anybody believe we will see an updated iMac by march?
I’m sitting here ready to pull the trigger on a MacBook when all I really want is a bigger iMac at home with one of these new chips!
I’m sitting here ready to pull the trigger on a MacBook when all I really want is a bigger iMac at home with one of these new chips!
Just so frustrating. Instead you now have 28” 4K panels which leaves you with silly small or silly big UI elements.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. 27” is a sweet spot. 32” displays you have to sit back too far or you get a neck ache which means you need a huge desk. 24” gives you eye strain because you have to sit closer.
Also not all Mac users are creatives as such. Some of us are technical and engineering and for us, excellent text presentation is what we’re after.
This is why I use a Mac mini with a single 27” 4K Iiyama IPS screen. It’s good enough and the combo cost less together than the equivalent 24” iMac did! The monitor also has dual inputs so I can use it with my junk box PC that runs Linux if I need to actually do anything more than SSH.
The killer though is the iMac has really crappy display positioning capability. I’ve got a Sapper monitor arm which means I can move the display all over the place. Putting a whole damn Mac on that is just horrible.
So give me a nice 27” 5k display that doesn’t weight much to replace the old Cinema Display and a Mac mini pro please. The expensive XDR display and the iMac are crappy compromises at both ends of the scale.
Also with the iMacs you can’t get a matching display if you want to run dual head which is a pain.
Also not all Mac users are creatives as such. Some of us are technical and engineering and for us, excellent text presentation is what we’re after.
This is why I use a Mac mini with a single 27” 4K Iiyama IPS screen. It’s good enough and the combo cost less together than the equivalent 24” iMac did! The monitor also has dual inputs so I can use it with my junk box PC that runs Linux if I need to actually do anything more than SSH.
The killer though is the iMac has really crappy display positioning capability. I’ve got a Sapper monitor arm which means I can move the display all over the place. Putting a whole damn Mac on that is just horrible.
So give me a nice 27” 5k display that doesn’t weight much to replace the old Cinema Display and a Mac mini pro please. The expensive XDR display and the iMac are crappy compromises at both ends of the scale.
Also with the iMacs you can’t get a matching display if you want to run dual head which is a pain.
Hopefully this very same day will see the new Mac Mini - the computer that I (and half the people on this site) are waiting for. Mac Mini M1 Pro is suddenly the Holy Grail.
I literally burst out laughing when I read comments about all of the extra “screen real estate” the notch provides... on a 14” laptop. It’s hilarious.
32" at a minimum. Better is 42". I find this story trouble. I just got a 24" iMac with an M1, it's gorgeous, and I want to keep my slightly small, now old-fashioned but new iMac for a while. If Apple brings out a SXR screen with a blinding 5,000 nits, I'll just have to throw my old iMac out, or sell it for a hundred. There's something way better. A robot friend. A MacBook Pro Max 2021. I wonder how big that chip is going to be on a Mac Pro?
The largest device that looks maybe bad with a notch is something wider than the menu bar. Dark mode makes it disappear in a pure black screen with 1600 nits and ProMotion.
Oh! Come on! Give me an iMac grade 27" of 32" screen already, I want to buy 2. That Pro XDR screen is overpriced or overkill. Hopefully they'll launch one somewhere in a year.
Obviously we'll find out once people have them in their hands, but I wonder if the new MBPs really needed the extra thickness for thermals/performance reasons?
The M1 barely needed cooling, so I would've thought the Max/Pro would've worked well in the previous chassis. I suspect the thickness might be due to dealing with the extra ports and battery, rather than thermals.
