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How to convince my friends to get an iMac?
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I would never. These are my friends and my friends wives and I care for them.
I'm waiting for better ideas.
Here are a few I’ve used myself:
- If you have a Mac Mini and a Studio Display, they’ll always be slightly misaligned on the desk no matter how straight you place them, because you can’t position them perfectly.
- An iMac is cheaper to buy, so you’ll have money left for AirPods Max.
- The Magic Mouse looks better with an iMac.
- You can get a yellow computer.
Yea okay, I have to weigh in because the logic here just doesn’t hold up.
A computer + external display setup (Mac Mini + Apple Studio Display, or anything similar) is objectively more versatile and future-proof. The display and the computer are decoupled. If one becomes outdated, you can upgrade it without throwing out the other. An all-in-one like the iMac locks the screen and the internals together, which limits long term flexibility. That’s not an opinion - it’s just how the hardware categories work.
On the aesthetics point: if someone does add a second display to an iMac, it obviously wont match the iMac’s design. Apple doesn’t manufacture external displays in the iMac form factor. A dual-monitor setup with two matching displays will, by definition, have more visual symmetry. Humans show a general perceptual preference for symmetry over asymmetry - that’s documented in cross-cultural psychology. (You can search “perceptual symmetry preference” and “processing fluency theory” - plenty of peer-reviewed work.)
And on the whole mission of “trying to convert your friends”: that’s where psychology is even more blunt. There are decades of research on psychological reactance showing that forcefully or repeatedly trying to change someone’s decision often makes them less likely to change — even more resistant.
People push back when they feel their autonomy and freedom is being challenged. Using controlling persuasion usually backfires harder than saying nothing at all.
Hardware preferences are fine. Trying to make other adults live by your choices isn’t. That’s where the argument stops making sense.
Not sure why anyone would buy a Studio Display at this point. It was an OK Display when it launched but since Appple refuses to do anything about the price tag on an almost 4 year old device - at this point - still at 1600$ - unless you can write it off per business requirement - imo you should get your sanity checked 
As for an iMac being better at anything - that is very debatable. It is a very small enclosure, will throttle as soon as you do more than browsing the web and moderate tasks. If that's all you do - the best thing would be a Macbook.
How is that for an idea?
As for an iMac being better at anything - that is very debatable. It is a very small enclosure, will throttle as soon as you do more than browsing the web and moderate tasks. If that's all you do - the best thing would be a Macbook.
How is that for an idea?
Love this thread.
If you love your friends, be quiet. If you hate your friends, tell them to get a windows copilot PC.
If you love your friends, be quiet. If you hate your friends, tell them to get a windows copilot PC.
- If you have a Mac Mini and a Studio Display, they’ll always be slightly misaligned on the desk no matter how straight you place them, because you can’t position them perfectly. Why is that not a problem for an iMac when your keyboard and mouse are constantly being moved around?
- An iMac is cheaper to buy, so you’ll have money left for AirPods Max. But then you’re stuck with a machine whose screen and internals are permanently attached when it inevitably becomes outdated. At least the headphones will still work.
- The Magic Mouse looks better with an iMac. That's subjective
- You can get a yellow computer. Appealing for some, but is a single colour really worth compromising flexibility and upgrade options?
Why? Please explain
iMac -24" 5k monitor vs. a 27" 5k monitor. The studio is brighter, offers the advantage of using it with other computers, if something happened to the iMac's cpu then you're toast.
Wouldn't they lose money and what does the iMac do that the their Mini/Studio display cannot? Why spend money on something that doesn't give them a material benefit
Now that seems extreme and off putting. I don't think people need to be so invested in a specific computer platform or model that you're literally willing to pay money to get them to use it.
If a friend did that, I'd have some strong words, and don't be foold if you keep going behind thier backs, they'll find out. Is a friendship worth an iMac?
Yes, respect their boundaries and choices.
Just get them to buy a $99 Dell monitor to go with the Mac Mini.
That there are forum members here who are taking OP seriously is disappointing.
This.
These days a 24 inch seems small.
If this were the 1990s the analogy would be 14 inch monitor small.
Friends don't let friends use 24" monitors.
I use MBA 15 inch at home. For me 24 inch would be plenty.
Stop trying to convince them.
The Mac mini they picked means they'll have less ewaste when they upgrade to a newer mini. Instead of having to toss the whole display and computer, they can just grab a new mini and keep the same expensive screen. Chances are that screen will probably be relevant in ten years, whereas the iMac might as well be dead in sever.
And going behind someone's back is a sure way to get them mad.
"A lot of my friends went the Mac mini + Apple Studio Display route, which as we all know is an utterly foolish thing to do compared to getting an iMac."
Pretty strong statement.
If they have a great monitor the utility of installing the mini anywhere is what i like about the mac mini. As far as the Imac 4.5K 24 vs 27 5k studio i will take the studio. Buy once cry once.
My computing is not about beauty it is about using them!
Yes Imac are tidy visually but mac mini and apple studio display can be tidy too.
Personal preference of installation is different for everyone.
Pretty strong statement.
If they have a great monitor the utility of installing the mini anywhere is what i like about the mac mini. As far as the Imac 4.5K 24 vs 27 5k studio i will take the studio. Buy once cry once.
My computing is not about beauty it is about using them!
Yes Imac are tidy visually but mac mini and apple studio display can be tidy too.
Personal preference of installation is different for everyone.
You don't "convince" anyone of anything. You do what you want, with what you buy. That is it. People will have to make up their own decisions. Otherwise you are wasting your time.
Therein lies your flaw of trying to push (convince) others, myself not understanding your actual motivation to do so. What for? Twenty yrs ago I would have assumed your friends wishing to no longer having to constantly make calls to PC firends, digging themselves out of a registry nightmare.
For full disclosure: back in 2006 I purchased my first Apple product, a 21" G5 iMac, after years of calling customer support friends to bail me out of the PC woes I did not understand. My graphic designer friends prior tried to introduce me to a PC alternative without pressure. I was so excited about the intuitive OS that I also fell trap to advertising this to friends with similar struggles.
As OSX headed into a certain direction, I would no longer recommend, but rather support friends with navigating their new Apple purchase. Nowdays I just let everyone go with the flow, and if they, of their own accord purchase a Mac, I will help them at least with any problems.
Fact is in life, to never be oppositional, convincing, but rather steer., and for them to actually want to decide this bit for themselves after a little supportive nudge.
For full disclosure: back in 2006 I purchased my first Apple product, a 21" G5 iMac, after years of calling customer support friends to bail me out of the PC woes I did not understand. My graphic designer friends prior tried to introduce me to a PC alternative without pressure. I was so excited about the intuitive OS that I also fell trap to advertising this to friends with similar struggles.
As OSX headed into a certain direction, I would no longer recommend, but rather support friends with navigating their new Apple purchase. Nowdays I just let everyone go with the flow, and if they, of their own accord purchase a Mac, I will help them at least with any problems.
Fact is in life, to never be oppositional, convincing, but rather steer., and for them to actually want to decide this bit for themselves after a little supportive nudge.
Why are so many on the first page treating this as a serious post? It's clearly a joke post, but the perturbed responses are hilarious. 😄
It is a joke post. But in my case I was so flashed moving from a horror PC nightmare, to finally experiencing an intuitive and logical OS. This I always wanted to share, talk fiends into. Except, after Apple started yearly OSX iterations with unresolved bugs, I no longer recommended it to my friends.