Think Apple is looking to ride as long as they can between updates with their macOS hardware and others. Recently Mac mini, MBA too. Just like AirPods. Nothing more to add in 2 years? But yet plenty of excuses on the state of the company when they can’t get everyone to upgrade their iPhone every year.
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Tim Cook:
“We love the Mac”.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/602552/tim-cook-celebrates-mac-35th-anniversary/amp/
You wouldn’t think it from their
lack of attention.
Does Tim Cook love the Mac because he knows Apple can sell outdated machines for today’s premium price? Probably.
“We love the Mac”.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/602552/tim-cook-celebrates-mac-35th-anniversary/amp/
You wouldn’t think it from their
lack of attention.
Does Tim Cook love the Mac because he knows Apple can sell outdated machines for today’s premium price? Probably.
Apple sales in China are down, along with:
NVIDIA
Caterpillar
Samsung
Tiffany
Intel
FedEx
Goodyear
Without China, Apple would have set revenue records again and did so in the US, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Korea, Poland, Spain, and Malaysia.
It wasn't great news, but it's certainly not limited to Apple and it IS certainly mostly a China story.
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This isn't about what I would do, but people buy cars that are end of model years all the time. A lot of cars also are the exact same for several years, but just called 2016, 2017, and 2018. I don't like buying cars that have sit around, because they have fluids in them and tons of plastic. Electronics that are still being made as we go along, no problem. It's not like every iMac was made 602 days ago. They just have the same spec, likely like your car you overpaid for.
Intel has been shipping 8th generation desktop CPU for awhile now (source: MacRumors from April 3, 2018).
It is quite possible that Apple is planning more substantial iMac upgrade, similar to Mac mini. Apple kept Mac mini in the line up for 4 years without updating, with 4th generation CPU. Perhaps not every generation of CPUs from Intel are suitable for Macs. But by all indication, current 8th generation CPU offers enough benefits (faster 4K, lower energy use, six core).
I bought the 27inch 5k iMac when it came out definitely getting my moneys worth. Rock solid and reliable.
And the theoretical turbo clock speed of the iMac Pro is equal to the base clock speed of the 2-year old iMac: 4.2GHz. That's why the fastest single-core Mac on Geekbench is a 2-year old iMac.
Unfortunately, a lot of 3D design software can only compute geometry on one core at a time.
The lack of updates to the iMac pale in comparison to the Mac Pro. We’re approaching 6 years on that one! And regardless of how much lip-service Apple paid to the MacPro by saying they were designing a new one...well, that was almost two years ago and we still don’t have anything!
It would be nice if Apple gave a damn about the Mac and its users instead of only paying attention to the iphone.
There is quite a bit of overlap between what makes a good gaming machine and engineering workstation.
Email him that you represent an organization that wants to give him an award for all his contributions to human rights and when he shows up ask him your question while recording on an iPhone.
You should check the prices for 5K monitors with less than Delta 1 of color accuracy before comparing an iMac to a $700 budget PC.
I own a 2017 5K iMac and I completely agree.
Sure the CPU and GPU could be faster, and it's certainly not the ultimate pro machine, but the performance is still perfect for a large portion of users doing 4K video, graphic design, sound, dev, etc. The iMac has never been the ultimate performance machine, that was what the Mac Pro was for.
Apple laptops have been crap for the last 4 years. Even the 2015 15'' rMBP had an outdated 4th gen CPU which ran super hot.
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Same here. I expect mine to last until 2022 at the very minimum.
CPUs have been getting minimal improvements in performance over the past 10 years. I doubt the CPU will get old in less than 5 years.
The RAM can be user upgraded.
The GPU can be "upgraded" via eGPU and TB3 for intensive tasks.
An $700 pc and an iMac... you can barely get a comparable display for $700, let alone the quality of machine that is housed inside an iMac... I have a working iMac in my house that is 10 years old: where’s your 10 year old working PC brah? Different animals. Out of one’s price range isn’t necessarily overpriced.
