Would be great if it would look like in the render. Looking for a home Mac desktop in the near future, if they at least pop-on black bezels and make the thing look properly, it could be a candidate. Otherwise, I rather take a buffed up mac mini with an external monitor.
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Gurman: Larger Apple Silicon iMac 'En Route,' May Feature More Powerful 'M2X' Chip
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There are quite a bit of French phrases used in English just as there are quite a bit of Latin phrases used.
The problem with the Mac Mini option, at least in my case, is that there are no affordable external monitors that match the quality of the 27" 5K retina display. The Pro Display XDR is ridiculously overpriced (not to mention the $1K stand) so that's not an option.
Everything else on the market is inferior to the built-in display on the 27" iMac. I think Apple likes keeping that panel to themselves since it gives them an advantage.
Yeah I was about to say, "en route" is pretty commonly used! I'm glad (well at least one) French people like that we use it though.
Larger iMac before the end of this year is a big, big stretch in my opinion. If it does release this year, it will ship with the same M1X that is shipping in the MacBook Pro. If it doesn't ship until the second half of next year which is far, far more likely for a product they stopped working on this year, and have just recently resumed...then likely an M2-based variant.
If it’s coming in 2022 it’s not out of the question it’ll have the beefier variant if the second generation of apple silicon, whatever it’s called, and skip the first one.
I see Apple are still advertising the LG UltraFine 5k (albeit with 4-6 week delivery) which, basically, is the iMac display in a boring black plastic case (...but with a better stand). But if the 27" 5k display is what you really want, it is hard to touch the iMac for value.
Problem is, 5k is the sweet spot for MacOS which doesn't really have a variable-PPI user interface (& of course 5k is twice-1440p as used in older iMacs and cinema displays). But Windows (a) is more-or-less optimised for 1080p and (b) does have adjustable PPI so 4k pretty much hits the spot. 5k displays did appear but pretty much fizzled - even the LG UltraFine seems to have one foot in the grave.
Frankly, the difference between 5k and 4k isn't that huge but for the fact that the Mac needs to do non-integer scaling and re-sampling to get the UI elements to a sensible size for a 27" 4k screen.
If I were going for a Mac Mini I'd "think different" about displays: maybe a pair of 4k 24" displays, or a large 4k TV/display that was big enough to use at native resolution....?
Please, put back the Apple logo on the chin, or do something to make it look better, like on the Intel iMac…
I would be happy if Apple just released something. I could use an M1X mini, large iMac, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.
As much I Apple makes beautiful products they always find a way to screw it up. I'm never going to buy a monitor that is not height adjustable.
Old predictions...boring.
On the other note I saw the M1 iMac for the first time today and it is really impressive!
On the other note I saw the M1 iMac for the first time today and it is really impressive!
Funny, I have two monitors with usb ports on the side, and I just arranged them so the usb ports are on the right side.
The bottom would be the next logical place, but that gets in the way of the speakers.
Candidly thats a silly narrow viewpoint. If the new machine does everything you want then rejecting it simply because of a stretch of colour beneath the display is ridiculous.