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'iMac Pro' Coming in 2022 With M1 Pro/Max Chips, 27-Inch Mini-LED Display, MacBook Pro Ports and More
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Regarding the mini it’s true they shifted the product, moving it upmarket, so again, you’re likely right and they were figuring out what to do with it.
If 27" is the biggest size iMac they offer with these new chips, that's a big mistake and a real no-go these days. 32" is far to common. Doesn't even need to be 5k or 6k. 32" @ 4k would be good enough.
Instead of 21.5" and 27" it should be 24" and 32" or 24", 27", 32".
Instead of 21.5" and 27" it should be 24" and 32" or 24", 27", 32".
So now it won't be called an iMac Pro? I'm not too surprised, probably because like I said, the "regular" 27" Retina iMac was always very popular with pro users for the reasons I mentioned
I believe the future will be the notebook vs desktop differentiation will not exist as we know it. Zero SoC differentiation.
The difference will be how you use that SoC. Ports / RAM / SSD size / screen size etc will be the differentiating factors.
This also does mean we are moving to a future where dedicated cpu and dedicated gpu will no longer be a thing. All in one integrated SoCs will be all there is. That future is not here yet, however Apple is showing now, that his this future is a possibility.
"Similar design to iMac 24 and Pro Display XDR". How is that possible?, they are both very different; the iMac 24 has a "chin" the Pro Display XDR doesn't.
uh, no. What is that?
Silly snide remark aside. I've worked on multiple screens, 24", 27" and also a single 34". I like a single 32" the best, it's the best tradeoff of deskspace, and real estate.....large vertical amount of space, and wide enough to easily accomodate viewing stuff side by side without having to look far left or far right.
That would result in 137.68 ppi. The current 27" iMac has 218 ppi. So your desired size/resolution would look like a pile of crap compared to that. Nobody want's that at least no Pros and definitely not Apple.
Lol, plenty of Pro's use a 32" 4k display.
Yes, 5k or 6k would be better, but at a minimum it should be 4k. My bigger point was that the iMac should bump to 32", that's the where the market for displays is moving as a new standard.
4K@2x is bad enough on my 24” Dell P2415Q, much less on a 32” display and I have no desire to display 4K@1x on a 32” display, most here don’t have that desire either. There is no “new” standard size display. I have a 24” and 27” 4K displays and 32” is just another panel size which is hilarious because the 4K gods can’t figure out the best size for 4K, hence all these display sizes. Apple is going to build displays with a resolution that makes @2x look good, not simply to fill out a spec sheet for PC builders, who will buy whatever the market craps out. When it comes to resolution versus monitor size there is very little consensus or “standard”. The top resolution of the 30” XDR is extremely high and 30” is the largest you’ll see in an iMac.
Apple wouldn't do a 4k 32", because all their displays have a "Retina" pixel density which, for external monitors, means ~220 ppi. That's the minimum needed for text to be sharp with their new OS's (now that they've abandoned subpixel text rendering) To achieve that with a 32" requires 6k, which is why the XDR is 6k (this gives it 218 ppi).
To the extent pro's use 32" x 4k, that would typically be for photography/video work. A pro (or anyone else) could use a 32" 4k for text work (coding, document prep, spreadsheets), but (if they're using MacOS), its sharpness would be suboptimal. I personally would hate to have to work on text on a 32" x 4k--the lack of sharpness would drive me crazy.
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For the last time: I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SCREEN SIZE AND FEATURE SET!
Why should I have to fork over a bunch of money for Pro features when all I want is a larger screen for doom scrolling???
Why should I have to fork over a bunch of money for Pro features when all I want is a larger screen for doom scrolling???
If they can contain an XDR display within the MBP lid, I think it should be possible to contain the guts behind the display of an iMac. It would have to be thicker, of course.
FaceID on a Mac would be great. This technology is one of the coolest features on the iPhones/iPad Pros.
FaceID on a Mac would be great. This technology is one of the coolest features on the iPhones/iPad Pros.
Well, I guess I would get used to 32" but I was looking forward to 27". I've been using 21" iMacs since 2009, so frankly over 27" kind of scares me...
Apple will most likey offer a standard "27 inch iMac" and a higher-end "iMac Pro," just like their Intel iMacs. Most of the iMac's target market just needs an AIO desktop with a reasonably sized screen, not a Mac Pro class workstation.
Note that 4k on a 34" screen means 130 ppi. I.e., when you say 4k on a 34", you are effectively also saying 130 ppi. Here's why:
It's the number of pixels divided by the screen dimension that gives you the ppi. So if you have a typical 4k computer monitor, that's 3840 pixels horizontally x 2160 vertically (that's where the "4k" comes from: 3840 ≈ 4000) (there's also a 4k standard the film industry uses, which is 4096 pixels horizontally).
A 34" screen with that aspect ratio would be 29.63" horizontally, and 3840 pixels/(29.36 inches) = 130.8 pixels per inch, or "ppi".
To get 220 ppi on a 34" screen, you'd need over 6k (depending on the aspect ratio).
Amen! Apple should stop making expensive all-in-ones and go back to separate displays and computers, except now much smaller and lighter and with battery power. Then we don’t have to compromise or waste money, we can get whatever size screens we want (and they would work with any source) and however powerful a computer we want.
One USB-C cable between them would be so neat and clean. Nothing else plugged in to the back of the display, no ugly vga cables with screws and thick power cables gathering dust bunnies.
Stop making the iMac? You must be joking. The iMac is the most iconic computer that Apple ever produced. The All-in-One nature of the computer is what makes it so great. If you don't like that, then there is always the PC world.
The chin is going nowhere. People need to accept this reality.
Buy a Mac mini and a 5K external display. This is what Apple does, have you not been paying attention for the last 12 years?