Apple Updates iMac Lineup With Up to 8-Core 9th-Gen Intel Processors and Radeon Pro Vega Graphics Options

[Cashmonee]

Still a Fusion drive in the base 27”. You only get 9th gen if you go to the top base model, which at $2300 that laughably come with a Fusion drive and a 2 or 3 year old midrange GPU.

The design is fine, but this needed a 512 GB SSD and 9th gen CPU as the base model and for the love of Mike an updated GPU.

Also, why no T2? This feels like a product they refreshed because they had to and we’re not ready. Which begs the question, why didn’t they just do that last summer instead of continuing to sell ridiculously outdated hardware?

I suspect this will be a short term iMac and we will see another one released in the fall.

 

[triangletechie]

The tech specs still show Bluetooth 4.2. I'm surprised they didn't bump it to 5.0.

 

[pat500000]

I don’t care about imac. I care about mac pro. Where is it apple?

 

[Shanpdx]

SSDs where are they? They are in shiny new MacBook 12"

SSDs in laptops and not in desktops? At least fusion drives?

Apple cranking out the products to meet the Quarterly targets, If I am not wrong. 10 or so days out in March.

 

[jdclifford]

What don't you get? Do you really think the average consumer cares or can tell the difference between 5400, 7200, Fusion, and SSD?
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There will never be another SE.

Pretty sure almost everyone can tell the difference between SSD and HDD at least on booting up.

 

[JCsHands2]

What don't you get? Do you really think the average consumer cares or can tell the difference between 5400, 7200, Fusion, and SSD?

They do when they see the spinning beach ball on their brand new 2019 iMac. But I do agree with you that they don't care what technology is inside, just so long as it gets the job done.

 

[retta283]

Great! The iMac is probably the best current Mac. Now come on iPod touch 7!

 

[kazmac]

No T2 chip?

Awesome!

Looks like my delayed tax refund is a good thing.

And for the same price as the 21.5” 2017 I was going to buy, I now get a 6 core machine AND a Vega GPU.

 

[Yourbigpalal83]

Meh. I just bought a baseline 27 inch 2017 model in november and its doing me fine. This is just a spec bump. Ill sit this one out until a redesign as while id love more power id rather wait for a redesign with face id, always on siri, and all that stuff.

Doubt we are getting that this year now so that saves me a ton of cash in the long run.

Thinking next month get me a new ipad mini and maybe in the fall the new phone n watch and thats it from apple for me this year!

 

[newyorksole]

Damnnnn. Was really hoping for a redesign. I don’t want to get this and then see a redesign later this year or even next year.

 

[MacFather]

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[Koodauw]

Lamp is this one: https://menu.as/en/website/lightning/jwda-table-lamp-marble/

Got like 30 of them at work, really nice light and its dimmable at the knob!

The one I linked is the marble one, but there are many different ones

Thank you!

 

[AlexJoda]

With this iMac "Upgrade" Apple is really taking the easy way out. This is only a kind of spec bump. Where is the innovation, Apple? In this case Intel and AMD were more "creative" than Apple which is astonishing...

 

[nfl46]

Okay, iPhone SE 2 is next, right?

 

[bdhokie]

Combined with recent “updates” to MacBook Pro and Macbooks, I think it’s safe to declare the Mac a legacy product line for Apple. They are not innovating, and after so much time to simply release an iMac “update” (meaning at best 2020 for a redesign, if ever), Apple has moved on from the computer business.

I have a 2012 iMac and was waiting for this year to see a new version. This is a yawning update, missing an improved camera, robust default RAM and HD configurations, and an aging design. My initial reaction to the default processor is “really???”, but I’m willing to keep an open mind on that until I have more information.

I won’t count out buying an iMac, but will definitely entertain moving to a Windows based computer if I find significantly better hardware at the same price. It would have been great to see FaceID - especially for people who use and iMac in a work environment. Entering passwords constantly is very 2012. Bluetooth stuck at v4.2, no upgrade to WiFi capability, and other disappointments add up.

To Apple’s credit, my 2012 iMac continues to chug along nicely and I have no urgent need yet to replace it.

If Apple is moving away from developing computers, be honest with your customers. Simply pasting “Our best {insert product} EVER” on the website isn’t working.

 

[badatusernames]

What don't you get? Do you really think the average consumer cares or can tell the difference between 5400, 7200, Fusion, and SSD?

You can tell the difference between a 5400 rpm HDD and a Fusion drive. I own a 2012 model with that HDD I upgraded it to an external SSD it’s a night and day difference. And I’m not talking about boot times but overall system performance.

 

[Falhófnir]

No iMacs have an i3 option? Only the base Mac mini but it’s still super fast

The base retina 4K model does for me, the £1,249 model ("3.6GHz quad-core 8th-generation Intel Core i3 processor") I'm not complaining if it helps keep the costs down, just wondering why they traditionally only ever offered i5 and i7...

The new i3s are much faster than previous generation i3s (and beat out many i5s). Sure an i5 would have been a little better but 8th gen i3s are plenty of processing power for the overwhelming majority of people using the 21.5" iMacs.

So literally just because before now they didn't offer enough power to be 'worth it'?

 

[brunerd]

No T2... is this some sort of lifeline to the education market? Will NetBoot then actually work on these Macs? That's the only reason I can think of to not include the T2. Perhaps college computer labs will be able to continue to NetBoot (with a 3rd party product!) and they'll be happy for one more year? Then it's T2 cold turkey, no netboot for you (?!) Wild Speculation.

 

[chrisdazzo]

Still supremely disappointed that I still have to purchase an iMac from 2015 in order to get 2TB of storage space in the smaller form factor. Guess I'm hanging onto this one for another cycle. Boo, Apple, but thanks for helping make the decision easy.

 

[jgbr]

The question of if the Mac is a priority has been answered.

 

[Nieloz]

What don't you get? Do you really think the average consumer cares or can tell the difference between 5400, 7200, Fusion, and SSD?
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There will never be another SE.

Yes, they can tell and they will tell the difference. Especially when they also have a MacBook since these have flash-ssd

 

[cyberlocke]

What don't you get? Do you really think the average consumer cares or can tell the difference between 5400, 7200, Fusion, and SSD?
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Umm, yes, and especially as the device ages.

 

[Cashmonee]

No T2... is this some sort of lifeline to the education market? Will NetBoot then actually work on these Macs? That's the only reason I can think of to not include the T2. Perhaps college computer labs will be able to continue to NetBoot (with a 3rd party product!) and they'll be happy for one more year? Then it's T2 cold turkey, no netboot for you (?!) Wild Speculation.

There’s no T2 because this is not the real iMac update. It’s a stopgap they had to do because their hardware was laughably outdated. Now only some of the iMac is laughably outdated. Makes you feel at least slightly better about paying the asking price. I suspect there will be a total redesign in the fall.

 

[tomaki]

And they didn't even bother to upgrade the entry-model. Nice... /s

I've been basically priced out of the apple ecosystem with these "upgrades".

 

[jgbr]

A powerful system ruined by a hard drive will be the journalist byline.