Apple's New iMac?

[Serban]

How many of us still using a floppy disk now? That number will be the same for DVD in max 1 year from now.
Respect Apple that is the first company who saw the future

 

[Bigtree]

How many of us still using a floppy disk now? That number will be the same for DVD in max 1 year from now.
Respect Apple that is the first company who saw the future

Don't thinks so; there is a lot of us who collect CD's and load them into iTunes.
Just getting ready to upload my 826th CD.

 

[Serban]

I know many peoples who collects floppy disks too..but just for fun NOT for needs

 

[steve119]

I bought a bluray writer for my imac, handy for when I need it, and put away(a lot) when I don't

 

[Dr. McKay]

99.9% of people who buy the 21.5" iMac will not care that they can't upgrade.

I'm quite computer savvy. So I care. That's why the only 21.5 inch iMac that is of any interest of me, is the mid 2011 model. The 27 is just too big for my desk. Period.
I'm in serious doubt. Pay 1100 euros for a used iMac (bought July 2012, but still, almost two year old technology) or a very powerful and new BTO PC for the same price with everything on it (i7, SSD, HDD, nVidia GTX, 16gb of RAM,etc.) to run Linux.

 

[Silvereel]

Two words: USB Superdrive

 

[cinnabun93]

Who uses physical media anyway?

 

[Dr. McKay]

Two words: USB Superdrive

Extra cost... I can understand they took the superdrive out, but why increase the price at the same time ? You don't just have the cost of an external drive, the iMac itself costs more as well...

Who uses physical media anyway?

I do. Still need it. I make DVD's of home movies and send them to our grandparents in the UK. Shall I just stop doing that and tell them that we won't be sending them DVD's of their great grandchildren anymore ?
What if I want to burn a music CD to play in the car ? I don't have an iPod or MP3 connection in the car, so what do I do ? Forget about CD's and just listen to the radio ?
I still listen to music the old fashioned way. Never bought anything on iTunes (and no, I'm not downloading illegally), I buy all my music on CD. I buy movies on DVD. As long as they're available, I'll buy them.
When optical discs kick the bucket, I will have to download... but not on iTunes

 

[Andrew*Debbie]

I for one still use DVD's.

Red Box rents Blu Rays for $2 a night which is alot less than buying them or streaming them.

OK, but Apple never sold an iMac with an internal Blu Ray drive.

I also edit video and create movies and my customers still want DVD's.

You need a DVD burner. Most of us don't.

2 and 4 GB memory stick are only a few dollars. You could distribute on logo'd usb sticks unless your customers mostly put disks into standalone DVD players.

blu-ray burner which can record up to 50 GB of Data in a

Apple initially avoided Blue Ray because of difficulties with copy protection and compatibility. Jobs saw Blue Ray as redundant since everyone is supposed to rent TV and Movies though iTunes.

 

[KaraH]

The new design is almost identical to the design from four years ago, just the edge/back is a little bit thinner, nothing drastic

Huh?

I would MUCH rather have an older iMac running with current specs. I see things like reducing the drive bays to one (plus the SSD slot) as downgrades, not upgrades. Which also means the size of your SSD is pretty limited.

Maybe typical consumers just like the thinness. When you do not want a pile of external drives on your desk it makes a huge difference and the 2012 iMac is not a viable option.