Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the hard drives were 2.5 inchers. Of course 3.5 inch drives are irrelevent in these days of affordable SSD's. Apple just needs to get with the modern times and use full ssd's rather than fusion drives, which were a band-aid compromise in an era of $1000+ 1tb SSD's.
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Apple to Launch 4K 21.5-inch Retina iMac Next Week, iPad Pro in Early November
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the hard drives were 2.5 inchers. Of course 3.5 inch drives are irrelevent in these days of affordable SSD's. Apple just needs to get with the modern times and use full ssd's rather than fusion drives, which were a band-aid compromise in an era of $1000+ 1tb SSD's.
Just because you place it on a desktop to use doesn't make it a desktop-class computer internally.
I can share more if there's a genuine learning opportunity here, but if not, I'll pass.
Your meaning is unclear. You can't have a retina display without a display. The new Apple TV is not a display.
Exactly this is what I am criticizing. Apple is pretty lazy when it comes to GPU. Yes, it's thin and looks good and all but performance wise it could be improved upon.
Did that include the 27" ones as well?My local Apple Store (Bordeaux, France) has replaced their iMacs with MacBooks today. Definitely thinking next week for some new iMacs
You're right. I ment the overall CPU performance upgrade is rather small (10% max?), but going back to an Nvidia GPU again would be a much bigger performance upgrade (esp. the newest upgraded GTX980 mobile GPU card).
These AMD GPUs are very hot too. I can overclock my Nvidia 680MX @ 250/375 with 100% stability, and still have considerably lower temperatures than the current AMD GPUs at stock clockspeed.
Microsoft's Surface Book is available from October 26th, with Skylake.
Surely Apple must be upgrading all Retina iMacs and Macbook Pros to Skylake this month???
Surely Apple must be upgrading all Retina iMacs and Macbook Pros to Skylake this month???
So, if I understand well, you are suggesting that a desktop-class GPU can go into the iMac under the current slim design, right?
No. This is the point. The slim design is stupid because of that. Apple should at least switch to the GTX980M.
It's a laptop on its side, that's all. If it had desktop internals, it would be about 10cm thick to house all the fans and heatsinks.
i wish for an iMac 24'. 21 is too small and 27 large for my desk
My local Apple Store (Bordeaux, France) has replaced their iMacs with MacBooks today. Definitely thinking next week for some new iMacs
Have they just replaced their iMac 21,5" or the other ones too? Hoping for a processor upgrade on the 27" iMac non retina!
It's easy to understand your criticism of Apple using mobile components (let's be real here, we're talking about GPUs, aren't we?) Mobile GPUs are the biggest performance bottleneck that current mobile devices and all-in-one PCs (like the iMac) use.
We've had the ongoing "why doesn't Apple release a mid-tower gaming Mac?" argument for many years. It seems to have fallen on deaf ears at Apple. It's just not in their playbook. If they did release one, I'd buy it sight unseen. Even if I did have to buy a monitor separately. Apple has gone so far up the road of computers as appliances, I don't know if they can ever come back.
I do, however, give them credit for thinking beyond the plain beige box in terms of design and engineering. Maybe they're forward-thinking, innovative. Maybe the internal hardware hasn't caught up yet to that design and engineering. Steve Jobs did refer to the iPad as the fruition of the original Apple team's dream. That's a long time to wait. Maybe when desktop GPUs attain a power draw equivalent to - or superior to - their mobile brethren, and lose the need for those fans, I think Apple will gleefully incorporate them into their iMacs.
And I think they'll be the first to do it.
I think, that if we're being honest with ourselves, 4k and 5k as a spec and feature, is in its infancy in home computing terms. Desktop class GPUs that support the resolution for gaming struggle at everything BUT the high-end (eg nVidia's Titan) to do so in AAA games at a constant 60 fps.
This time next year? Hopefully a different story. Probably a different story.
Not going to happen. The optimal size for touch-targets and click-targets differs by a lot. You can't have both without either the icons being to close together to be comfortably touched or to far apart to be comfortably clicked. Besides you have to alter the whole UI for something that is completely redundant. And we have seen how this experiment plays out in reality with Windows 8.
Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users
The beauty of the ForceTouch trackpad is, it is completely transparent to the way trackpads used to work before. You can turn it off in preferences and it will feel like a MultiTouch trackpad. You can disable all the multitouch gestures and it will feel like a SingleTouch trackpad. On whatever machine you've learned your computing skills, you can replicate that exact same experience without distractions.
So Microsoft just launched the most impressive "Surface Pad Pro" yet (even looks a lot like a Macbook Pro, but doubles as a tablet) and has Skylake on it already while Apple releases OUTDATED/OBSOLETE technology at the same relative time (kind of like the new AppleTV as Roku and Amazon and NVidia all recently released their 4K capable models).
Come on Apple flavored Kool-Aid drinkers, tell me how people don't NEED Skylake yet. It's just too damn new and fast for people in 2015 and there's not enough interest in better/faster/more powerful technology. Let's wait until the next chipset comes out and then release Skylake models. After all, you need more than a tiny percentage using something before Apple can invest in it....
Well... that's how Apple makes all their money. They take older tech specs that are at least a year behind and package it up all pretty. The average user has no clue what the specs means with i5 and i7 and 390X... all they know is "hmm...7 is higher than 5, so 7 must be better than 5".
The sad fact is that Apple is now playing 'keep up' with the rest of the world. Larger iPhone and iPad pro are just a few examples of Apple having to catch up with their competitors. I'm still surprised we have no iPhone with a Retina display.... seems like that should be the next thing that Apple needs to do to keep up with the tech world.
