Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of 'Spring Loaded' Event Later Today

[Royksöpp]

My wallet is weeping but my heart is in bliss. Damn you Apple!

 

[inigou]

I wish they release an official MagSafe battery pack.

 

[JMStearnsX2]

My wife uses my 2012 11” MBA for the same purpose. I keep asking her if she wants an upgrade, but she keeps saying no.

I can’t buy another computer for myself so it would really help (me to check out the new M1 machines) if she would let me buy her an upgrade LOL.

My wife was on a 2012 MacBook Pro, and she finally let me upgrade her to the M1 Air. Less than half the weight, and the battery only needs to be charged ever 2 or 3 days, which is nice!

 

[JMStearnsX2]

I really wish Apple would allow its engineers to design a modular iMac. One that could be taken apart and repaired easily instead of needing to disassemble the whole thing so you can get to the flash SSD on the backside of the logic board.

I'd be thrilled with a small tower that has PCIe slots & sata connections, not that they'll ever go there again...

 

[Wordman]

Loving all these people who said 'There won't be an iMac' who've had to delete their posts and return their crystal balls.

 

[carrrrrlos]

Sorry, but Tim doesn't have the chutzpah to pull that off.

Yeah, apparently he’s more like the Ethan Hunt type. ;P

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

If they actually *need* to take the store off line to introduce new products, or pricing - then they didn't build it very well.

I'm pretty sure it'll be about the hype generation more than anything else.

As a developer myself, I'd certainly love the six-hour production outage to get everything ship-shape!

 

[Mimiron]

With the Air and MacBooks released last year it was heavily implied that you didn’t need as much physical memory.

Some commentators said that 8GB was enough. Some said it wasn’t. Some said it depends on what you are running. Since buying and adding more memory will probably not be possible after purchase then being able to know with a fair amount of certainty what will definitely be enough becomes important. Do you buy as much as possible and never need it but you inflated the cost of your new computer unnecessarily or something less and maybe or maybe not take a performance hit?

Well, it's always better to have more RAM even if you don't need it. To me, 16 GB of non-upgradable RAM in 2021 is simply unacceptable and one of the reasons that deter me from buying the new iMac.

My gut tells me we're in for a surprise by the end of the year and we'll see more power user-oriented machines, including an iMac with more than 16 GB of RAM and a bigger screen.

 

[EdT]

Well, it's always better to have more RAM even if you don't need it. To me, 16 GB of non-upgradable RAM in 2021 is simply unacceptable and one of the reasons that deter me from buying the new iMac.

My gut tells me we're in for a surprise by the end of the year and we'll see more power user-oriented machines, including an iMac with more than 16 GB of RAM and a bigger screen.

I’m not sure that more powerful will include more memory, but another poster replied with a good point: you can try it for 2 weeks and return it if it’s not up to expectations. I have programs that I also know are compatible with M1 chips (whether native or Rosetta) that load up my current 24 GB machine pretty badly. Install those program, maybe run a movie in the background and open a browser or 2. If it doesn’t run well (my current iMac doesn’t) then it’s not an improvement.