yes this is the big issue for me not getting an iMac already. I could with a new monitor and could be tempted to get am iMac to go with my MacBook Pro & Desktop but without HDMI input it's useless as I don't have space for an iMac and a second monitor. It can't be that hard to do and the cost can't be much for a £1000+ product.
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Credible Leaker Says New iMac to Feature 'Really Big' Display Larger Than Current 27-inch Model
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I was on the same trip until I realized that that here in Spain 5k monitors + MacBook / MacMini nomatterwhich cost way more than an iMac. So iMac is the clear winner.
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I think the iMac is a good representation of the saying 'the whole is more than the sum of it's parts'. I think it's still hard to match the experience of using a 27 iMac (even today) for the price. Sure you can get an external screen for your macbook but it would cost you more money if you want to get a high quality screen and would not be as elegant. And the same is true if you get a mini and all the accessories. Not as nice, and at least as expensive.
Now imagine a high-end mini living inside a less insane version Pro Display XDR starting at $2K. I think that would be a pretty solid proposition for users that primarily work on desktop! It's definitely a smaller market than laptops, and I think that's why we've had to wait for so long, but it is still a good market to take and they have virtually no competition!
Now bring on touch on the iMac (Apple version of surface-studio with iPads apps running on it) 🙏 
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Another user who would like this. 👍 Appreciate that you are not just blindly accepting the status quo.
Educate me. We live in the days of System on a chip, fast SSD drives, large super fast caches for processing (on the chip)
Is maxing out your Ram now just a throwback to a bygone era? Is it not now the equivalent of a go-faster stripe on a boy-racers car?
In other words, the iMac display size will be really most sincerely big...
After the most recent "leaks" being so completely wrong, the words "credible leaker" are a complete turn-off for me. I'll believe it when I see it.
Apple should allow Windows to be booted
you really don’t know what you are talking about. USB is used for more than just cables.
This news for sure got me excited. I keep using my trusted iMac 27" late 2012, and that model for certain shows its age. I have been on a fence to upgrade for few years and the 2020 model for sure got me very close to pull the trigger, but AS is just that much better. Even though i am not using my iMac for anything fancy but standard office productivity, web browsing, light home video editing, the most recent Intel version would be sufficient for many years, I am patiently waiting for the AS version as that is the future.
Don’t worry, the display will develop image retention well before the computing power of the iMac becomes obsolete.
It's probably going to cost a lot more than we're used to, but I'm fine with that. You have a great display and performance, new iMacs can't come soon enough.
*continues throwing money at screen*
*continues throwing money at screen*
There’s a stand.Ports in the front?
In a nearly edge-to-edge screen?! 😂
Sure, do you want VGA or DVI?
I might be going out on a limb here...but I suspect Apple knows their market extremely well, with many years of iMac sales under their belt.
There are a number of instances where you still need to max out ram. Professions like video editing, photo editing, developers, 3-D rendering, etc. can all require more than 16GB of RAM. On an M1 MBA with 16GB I can hit 100% usage and get low memory warnings in an IDE relatively easy. My iMac will require a minimum of 32, possibly 64.
Can you imagine how slim this thing could be ?
we're talking paper thin ... maybe they'll put all the guts in a tiny chin and have a basically 1mm thin screen ? ( OLED .. micro led ?? )
we're talking paper thin ... maybe they'll put all the guts in a tiny chin and have a basically 1mm thin screen ? ( OLED .. micro led ?? )
I have a feeling that the new 27-inch (which is going to be around 32-inches) will be labeled the new "Pro" due to its larger size and probably the ability to add extra upgrades inclusively to it. So the 24-inch will be "iMac" and 32-inch "iMac Pro"...
I wonder if Apple could find an elegant way to make the ports part of the stand? They’ve never been too bothered about the rear of the machine. The current model has a very clever angle on the hump whereby it looks about 5mm thin unless you are really close to the back. It’s an understated idea but it works really well.