The Chin won't be reduced as M Pro and M Max thermals require larger twin fans. Likely just as big as the other 27" retina iMacs. The air intake and exhaust would also be in the chin's base as well as the 6 way speakers. Yes no one in their right mind would have the hot SoC under the display.
I think I read Apple said they're going to support Intel Macs for 5 more years
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The M Pro and M Max might be a touch slower, but energy efficiency your going to argue its got to have a large power supply like for the i9 to feed it to be impressive? Hmmmm
The chin isn't necessarily needed, at least not on the smaller iMac. They could make the area behind the screen bigger. However, the chin is what makes an iMac an iMac. Anyone who thinks Apple will get rid of it doesn't understand its overall importance. It will appear smaller relatively anyway on the new 27" because of the bigger screen size.
Don't look at is as helping the Windows community. There are creative professionals who would love to extend their MacBook with an extra screen if they have an iMac as well.
That is my personal preference: MBP+Display, however keep in mind portability comes with a price…if you don’t need it you’re better served with iMac.
Also in the display longing list? However I must say the new 24 iMac design was a enormous disappointment. I believe this is more widespread than some may believe, as an example, these don’t seem to be making their way to “design conscious” retail stores cashiers which usually have one sitting there for the “coolness” effect…
The purpose of that guide was purely to list pixel densities, and it does a beautiful job of it. It doesn't miss those things you list—those aren't supposed to be in there.
Those were great because they had a “bold” chassis design to match. New interaction feel like a ”childish” lazy colouring. IMHO very unappealing and “unApple”. BTW the watch color scheme doesn’t seem be getting better either…
That’s why they removed the front facing naming logo…although they have put one on bottom, for clamshell mode ?. Seriously I suspect the notch is just a compromise until we can get sensors under display at reasonable cost. Meanwhile we get more display area.
The M1P and M1M have vastly better energy efficiency, but in a desktop system that has moderate significance. It should make it easy to build a silent system, which of course is good, but you can also easily do that with five times the power draw of Apples new SoCs.
I don't think the Mathematica results are about the M1's single-core processing speeds, which are actually quite high--nearly as fast as the fastest non-overclocked desktop chips. Rather, it has to do with other factors, which I alluded to in my post.
iMac was already redesigned and without a NOTCH! What sort of logic makes you believe it would have a notch? Not that I care if it did, but larger display with thicker bezels means more space to place the front camera.
No trashing, just think these are not iconic designs as I’m used to from Apple.
Not convinced, the iPad Pro has an M1 without fans, I don’t see why the iMac Pro can’t have the SoC behind the screen with fans.The Chin won't be reduced as M Pro and M Max thermals require larger twin fans. Likely just as big as the other 27" retina iMacs. The air intake and exhaust would also be in the chin's base as well as the 6 way speakers. Yes no one in their right mind would have the hot SoC under the display.
There’s high probability iMac will be running high demanding workloads generated on 3rd party software, thus thermal must be addressed, unlike “iOS crippled” iPad. However I agree we do not need a chin for that. I believe this will be to accommodate speakers, though “Sony” style display embedded speakers would be great… but not realistic expected. Hopefully we’ll get the “chinless” display.ALL BLACK please.
Nonsense, 16GB is more than enough for most pro users, unless you're doing 4k/8k video work you really don't need more so perfectly reasonable as the base spec, more would be overkill and unnecessarily bumping up the price.
Could be that some part of the design needed more work than expected, or a design team is overloaded, or was allocated to some other project (MacBook Pro, iPad, …). This was a major redesign (hardware as well as packaging), so probably took much more work than usual. Sometimes sequencing is more efficient (it also lets you work out issues once and then apply lessons the second time)
After a 18 months of lockdown, riots, looting and such, having a “cool” register that sticks out like a sore thumb with a flashy color is very low on the priority list right now. Surviving as a small business is the only priority.