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Hands-On With Apple's New Orange M1 iMac
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Ha.....I have not been on Decarie in many years. If I recall correctly was Blue Bonnets not in that area as well?
As I watch some of the recent unboxing and first use videos of the new M1 iMacs, I'm becoming more and more impressed with the appearance. The various colors are attractive and in a couple of cases stunning, more so than I would have expected.
I say that without having seen any of these bad boys in person (yet), something not very convenient for me to do as our closest Apple store is nearly 3 hrs drive distant. And I don't really want to be tempted to buy one (yet), but I can imagine that the next round of iMac announcements will be hard to resist, likely bringing the larger display and even more power and capability.
I say that without having seen any of these bad boys in person (yet), something not very convenient for me to do as our closest Apple store is nearly 3 hrs drive distant. And I don't really want to be tempted to buy one (yet), but I can imagine that the next round of iMac announcements will be hard to resist, likely bringing the larger display and even more power and capability.
...I love the design of the Surface Studio, and wish that Apple would stop listing reasons why grafting a touch/stylus screen onto a Mac wouldn't work and start thinking about how it could be made to work. Also: yes, please bring back 16:10 or 4:3 displays, please!
Unfortunately, while the design of the Surface Studio makes the 5k iMac look cheap, the specs of the MS Surface Studio - CPU, graphics, I/O - make the 5k iMac look like a bargain. I think that MS are in a bit of a cleft stick with their hardware: their main competitors in the hardware market are also their most valued software re-sellers.
I did have a MS Surface Book for a short while, and design/function-wise it beat the newly mucked-up 2016 MacBook Pro range hands down. Unfortunately it also had a fatal "sleep of death" problem (that a bit of research revealed to be common) and turned into a brick within the money-back period. But, apart from that Mrs Lincoln, it was a good play.
Ended up getting a 2017 iMac for heavy lifting and making do with old portables when mobility was needed - which has been a good machine, but the all-in-one format is still a compromise for me. If it wasn't for the promise of Apple Silicon I'd be looking at going back to PC around now, just to get a reasonable choice of hardware. Software wise, a combination of Windows and Linux would be perfectly viable for me.
So I'm hoping for either (a) a spectacular 5k iMac replacement that makes me want another all-in one, (b) a M2 Mac Mini with, unlike the Intel Mini, half-decent graphics or (c) an Apple Silicon Mac Pro starting at a sensible price ($3000 or so - I'm not expecting cheap but if the iMac can stay the same price from 1998 to 2021, so can the desktop tower model).
I was sort of indifferent at the first sight of the colors. Have not seen the new iMac in person, but now think they look pretty awesome in the plethora of videos. Glad Apple had the guts to do this.
I think I will like the white bezel. A white border I find much better than a darker one when doing post processing. When photographers are displaying their artwork, they do so with white matting, not black. I think white will be fine.
I think I will like the white bezel. A white border I find much better than a darker one when doing post processing. When photographers are displaying their artwork, they do so with white matting, not black. I think white will be fine.
The other way of doing that would be to make the enclosure bigger to improve airflow...
Apple Silicon delivers significantly more processing power per Watt than Intel, giving Apple a lot more thermal wiggle-room. With the iMac - the first ground-up Apple Silicon enclosure design - Apple have decided to mainly "spend" that advantage on making the thing ultra-thin (...maybe the screen is now the biggest energy user/heat source, hence the surprisingly powerful 143W power brick - anybody know what the power consumption of the 21.5 Intel iMac was?)
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201918 says 166w at cpu max.
They look stunning in person. Yesterday I visited a local Apple Store and saw all iMacs (in all colors) side by side on a table. Excellence in design.
Isn’t it a shame that a desktop requires a dongle to add basic functionality as an sd card reader, hdmi out or the ability to connect an usbA thumb drive?
An iMac is an All-in-One computer. How many people really use an SD Card every day to import pictures and videos from a camera to their Mac? I believe that most people don't have a use for an SD card slot. I am not saying that it wouldn't be great for people that need the slot, if Apple integrated one into the new iMac, but we need to understand that there are always compromises when designing a product. I tend to think that Apple made the right compromises with the new iMac.
I bet there are hubs coming that will solve all problems! Hopefully they are color matched
Wrong can be an opinion. Wrong is a judgment.
While one definition is “incorrect,” it is not the only definition.
That math answer is wrong. -incorrect
What you are doing is wrong. -judgment
Have a nice day.
I never cared what the average person down the street does with tech. But I’m guessing they don’t also care about m1, os version, ram, screen quality etc. But how does it look and what color is it? That’s where this argument eventually ends up going.
Ah how silly of me.
You weren't claiming the iMac is wrong as in incorrect (the answer is wrong), or wrong as in broken (something is wrong with it), you were saying it's wrong, as in unjust, dishonest or immoral.
Sure that makes sense 🙄
That “hub” shouldnt be a dongle, it should be the CPU, and the screen should just be a screen.
I don’t know if the target customer for this iMac uses SD cards a lot of not. But I fail to see the need to make such compromises in a desktop, being a couple mm thicker would still make it impressive, if that’s the compromise that needed be made. If it’s about the I/O constraints inherent to the M1, then there wasn’t a lot that apple could do.
I don't think that the M1 cannot handle an SD Card. Even desktops have constraints, especially if the goal is to make them so thin.
DSLR-style Video/Still cameras, GoPros, drones, dashcams, Raspberry Pi, set-top boxes, synth modules... Yes, each one of those can be dismissed as a "niche" requirement, but a lot of niches add up... A SD slot would be useful to a lot of people.
OTOH, as far as the M1 is concerned, it's looking like 2xTB + 2xUSB3.1 (plus however the heck the webcam, sound, ethernet etc. are connected internally) maxes out it's I/O so adding a SD card would mean pinching bandwidth from somewhere else or adding an internal USB hub. So, yeah, it's probably the right compromise once you've decided to put a M1 in an iMac. It will be disappointing if the M1X/M2/whatever doesn't address this - and people will moan if the rumoured SD slot on the new MBP comes at the expense of a USB.
Also, if the SD card is going on the back (like the one on the Intel iMac) don't bother - I do use the SD slot on the iMac but it is in a really inconvenient place and since I've got a desktop USB3 hub it's almost easier to plug a dongle in...
SD/HDMI is more an issue on laptops, where there's an advantage in having at least one of each port you need built in rather than carrying around dongles to be forgotten/lost/borrowed. USB-C Dongles on desktops aren't great but they're mostly fit-and-forget.
What isn't great is bundling unrelated functions like display, power, USB and Thunderbolt onto a single plug so that using one blocks the other....
I believe iJustine is unboxing every color. If you're into that kind of thing.
Actually her video was really great, especially for people that are on the fence and what to see all colors. She did a very nice job of showing all colors.
It's quite nice in person. The front is glass from chin to top and has almost a frosted look. Very well done.
I think we'll see a 30 inch iMac in a few weeks. I'm betting Apple calls it iMac Pro. Also willing to bet it comes in black--not space gray, black.