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I suspect it was the guy who's responsible for Apple's record sales, year after year after year, with roughly 1 billion active customers.
Probably... he had to make at least this mistake, reason why are being discounted this much for not selling fast enough. Trying to make room fast enough to welcome the new releases.
I'm honestly surprised that this much attention was put into a dying line. How many people in the last decade have needed an all-on-one desktop — or any desktop, for that matter? I'd love an iMac... until I need to bring my computer with me, in which I'd just use a laptop + external display setup.
I think the iMac is back to where it was in 1998: a home computer for basic tasks. Oddly enough, it may actually be less out of place in 2022 than in the 2010s. After all, it seems that an increasing number of people are doing their mobile "computing" on their smartphones. The only time they may need to utilize something more powerful is when they're working at home, in which case they may very well wish to use an iMac. Granted, I'm pretty sure the majority of computer users have a smartphone / laptop pair... so, that once again makes me question the relevance of the iMac. Basically, the user has to be certain that they don't need to go anywhere with their computer — that they want a clean desktop setup with fine screen, as well as with peripherals included. This is why the iMac is a niche product.
Separately, I'd argue that having hundreds of gigabytes of stagnant files stored locally is an outdated concept. In fact, in the 1980s, Apple intended for the Macintosh to be a glorified terminal capable of retrieving its files and information from a complex network file server. They were way too early (by some point, at least); however, with cloud services and such, we're finally coming around to this concept.
It just occured to me today (yes I'm slow and this isn't the best place to post this) that this computer is so thin its begging to be wall mounted. Of course we can't do that because the cables come out the back and they don't have a vesa mount (or any other option.) That's too bad. It could be such a nice way to use your iMac. Granted, a thin display and a Mac Mini would do the trick too.
Exactly why Apple needs to pump out some great external options…
Including for iOS users!
I read the argument about 256 GB not being enough quite often.
Does the average user (not the professional who’s handling LARGE amounts of data) not clean up their SSD?
Or are we talking about people who would use this as absolutely the only storage they have?
Because if that’s the case, then sure, if I were to put everything from my external drives on one 256 GB SSD… well, I wouldn’t be able to.
Does the average user (not the professional who’s handling LARGE amounts of data) not clean up their SSD?
Or are we talking about people who would use this as absolutely the only storage they have?
Because if that’s the case, then sure, if I were to put everything from my external drives on one 256 GB SSD… well, I wouldn’t be able to.
Everyone's a little different of course, but I will say that I find it much more straightforward to have a large internal disk that has basically "everything" so that when I back it up (in multiple places), I can always be sure I'm backing everything up.
The more fragmented the initial storage, the more work it becomes to ensure you are correctly backing it up.
iMac for home / iPad Pro for on the go. Best of both worlds. but I'm biased as I think laptops suck
Sorry, my claim was more hyperbole (for fun effect) than something intended for Apple Support docs. I mean, 256 isn't technically 256.Big Sur takes 35-44GB of storage, depending how it's installed. This isn't trivial, but it's not "practically filling" 256GB.
macOS Big Sur - Technical Specifications - Apple Support
support.apple.com
My larger point: 256 gets gobbled up surprisingly fast. It's barely acceptable on a mobile phone. How on Earth is it acceptable for a desktop computer? Not to mention, files are only increasing in size. Now as one poster pointed out earlier, "just get an external." Which is A) totally fine and B) cheaper than Apple's BTO options but C) not for someone, like me, who gets rashy from extraneous cables and peripherals. ?
I was with you until COVID hit. My iMac's just sat here until I needed to do Photo Editing or some other media, or backup my iPhones. Otherwise I used my iPad or iPhone for 90% of my needs at home. Since we moved to work from home and use 100% Virtual Desktops, which you can access via Citrix from any device, I got a 3 monitor setup with the iMac as the central monitor. I can run My Work VDI on 3 monitors, or just 1, with MAC OS on the other 2. Sounds like a new 24" iMac is a downgrade from my 2015 5k iMac that supports 2 external displays, plus a 4th if I want to add my iPad, which is silly.
Now i Don't really need this, as my work provides a Dumb Terminal (Wyse Terminal) with support for 3 monitors, but all you can do is access Windows Virtual Desktop, no local machine on your own network.
Now for Microsoft Teams meetings, MAC OS is a god send, it works incredible, and everyone at my company not on a Mac has a worse experience!
I'm sure a MacBook Pro would be good if I can get a doc and 3 external Displays, but in my house, i've tried, working from anywhere but my office, it's not great. iPad works fine for Teams meetings around the house.
I would rather have one device for everything, as having an iPad + desktop is pretty similar to having a laptop + desktop. Apple's Continuity features help significantly; however, it's still easier to manage a single device than two or more.