So I suppose you would be happy buying a two-year-old car with zero miles for the same price as a 2019 model?
(Sorry about the car analogy everyone)
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iMac Last Updated 602 Days Ago, Longest Span Ever Between Updates
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So I suppose you would be happy buying a two-year-old car with zero miles for the same price as a 2019 model?
(Sorry about the car analogy everyone)
Considering how hot my i7-7700K runs when all four cores and eight threads are pegged, I honestly wonder if the i7-8700K would really bench much better even with six cores and twelve threads.
Apple designed the Macs around 10nm, if not 8nm, which we should have had in 2016 and 2018, respectively, per Intel's original timelines released in 2014. Of course, we won't see 10nm really until late this year and probably not in volume until 2020. And 8nm? Who knows when.
And Apple wasn't alone, frankly. Our thin Dell and Lenovo laptops run their CPUs just as hot and their fans just as hard when pushed because they also aren't designed to cool the average TDPs Intel is pushing to get what performance gains they can from 14nm.
One point I am in complete agreement with is HDD-only needs to go. I'd love to see them dump Fusion, too, so they could re-work the cooling, but then we'd probably get the iMac Pro's cooling system which means no easily-user-replaceable RAM. But Fusion should really be 128GB across the board (1TB / 2TB / 3TB) like it was at launch.
Apple designed the Macs around 10nm, if not 8nm, which we should have had in 2016 and 2018, respectively, per Intel's original timelines released in 2014. Of course, we won't see 10nm really until late this year and probably not in volume until 2020. And 8nm? Who knows when.
And Apple wasn't alone, frankly. Our thin Dell and Lenovo laptops run their CPUs just as hot and their fans just as hard when pushed because they also aren't designed to cool the average TDPs Intel is pushing to get what performance gains they can from 14nm.
One point I am in complete agreement with is HDD-only needs to go. I'd love to see them dump Fusion, too, so they could re-work the cooling, but then we'd probably get the iMac Pro's cooling system which means no easily-user-replaceable RAM. But Fusion should really be 128GB across the board (1TB / 2TB / 3TB) like it was at launch.
And the Mac Pro has not been updated since 1866 days ago.
Everything about tim needs to be spec bumped. His attitude, his brain, his catch phrase “amazing” needs to be upgraded...unless it’s soldered.
What is a 1950 hard drive?
Since you asked: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
Tim Cook’s excuse will be that nobody is interested in computers anymore or blame the economics or even worse... blaming the brexit for the higher prices (which didn’t even occur yet, lol).
Most of apple’s products are following the same route as the all Apple products these days. What on earth is going on at Apple....
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This is all part of Apple's long term strategy to phase out the Mac line entirely (and lure buyers over to their iToy line).
Good catch! At this point, its a moonshot to have solid hardware/software upgrades for the Mac. More so annually. I digress..
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What is a 1950 hard drive?
Since you asked: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_350.html
Ah, those were the good old days.
(...says a man born in the 1980's.)
I remembered one special MLK’s speech in regards to mac computers: “i have a dream that one day imac and mac pro units will come out after apple figures out how to prevent people from upgrading and when it hits 3000 days.”
MLK is a visionary...he knew when mac pro will come out.
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MLK is a visionary...he knew when mac pro will come out.
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Apparently so. Thin us out like dead ants.
The 5MB hard drive option requires a fork lift, maybe newer versions will be smaller - perhaps this is what Apple is waiting for.
No, I meant the iPod, that overpriced stupid toy MP3 player. Let's not forget MacRumors' reaction to the original iPod. You mocked us. In the end we got the last laugh. WHERE IS THE iPOD NOW? Exactly. It was garbage. I knew it would make Apple lose sight on its computer business and instead focus on gimmicks and toys: iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, AirPods.
And if you're a professional video game streamer on Twitch, you couldn't do that on an iMac. ANY work you do on a Mac can be done on a PC, but not the other way around. The PC dominates when it comes to productivity AND play. Macs are for people who want attention. For CHRISSAKES, Macs don't even have a right-click! WHY? Because the marketing guy Steve Jobs thought a TWO-button mouse was too "complicated." Shows you what he thought of the average Mac user.
As he is in the habit of removing more than adding, I'd like him to remove that terribly annoying fake "pray" hand gesture that he did continuously during his most recent keynote. What the heck is that all about? As if these post-Jobs keynotes aren't cringeworthy enough already.
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The lack of updates shows that
As noted in the MacRumors Buyer's Guide and discussed in the MacRumors forums, it has now been 602 days since Apple last updated its iMac lineup, a new record for the longest span between iMac refreshes ever. The previous record was 601 days between October 2015 and June 2017 refreshes.
In fairness, the iMac Pro was released in December 2017, but standard 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models have not been updated in over a year and a half. Since the original iMac launched in 1998, the computer has typically been updated at least once per year, with the sole exceptions being 2016 and 2018.
The iMac is not alone. The 12-inch MacBook and Mac Pro have also set record-long spans of 602 days and 1,866 days and counting respectively since their last refreshes. Apple has at least promised to release an all-new Mac Pro with a "modular" design at some point in 2019, but has yet to share additional details.
As for the iMac and MacBook, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Apple was likely to debut refreshed models at its October 2018 event, but only the MacBook Air and Mac mini were updated. Kuo expects both the iMac and MacBook lines to receive faster processors, and the iMac to receive "significant" display improvements.
Apple has hosted a March event in three out of the past four years, so perhaps we'll see new iMacs and MacBooks at a March 2019 event. Other items on the agenda could include new iPad and iPad mini models, a new iPod touch, new AirPods, and the long-awaited AirPower mat if production rumors were true.
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the biggest crime is STILL selling 600 days old computer at the same price...
The lack of updates... relatively simple ones like the later model CPUs and SSDs and adding another TB3 controller and maybe 2 more Type-C ports would have forestalled setting this record which is nothing but a blot on Apple no matter how some may try to spin it. If they just made the SSD user replaceable that would have garnered a lot of praise. Simple things, relatively easy to execute I am thinking. Good press and revitalization of the iMac. If they just had a GPU with 5% more processing power... say activating another compute unit. Time will tell. Even a price drop would have been something. it was a marketing mistake to break the record and a dark spot on Apple's reputation.
That's because Apple doesn't respect consumers.
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Apple's made it a habit of having black spots on it's reputation for a long time now. I'm surprised apple consumers haven't given them hell over the disrespect they've gotten from Apple. I wonder why?