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iMac progress since Steve Jobs died: opinions?
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I have a 2017 21" iMac. Mine doesn't run hot even using FCPX or letting run SETI@home.
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You can't detect sarcasm.
Not really 'current' technology. The current iMacs have MUCH faster cpu's and HUGELY better cpu's. So if you care about what a computer can actually do, versus what it looks like, then there's no comparison.
Well, one could argue that you've been CONDITIONED by modern consumerist society to see changes in a product (visible signs of progress as you call it).
To say it's a fundamental human trait is up for debate. If anything, I think the better argument could be made that fundamentally, humans like familiarity and comfort in their lives, not constant change.
Getting back the iMac though, sure I'd be fine if they changed the look of it. But after a month, the outside appearance of it would be a big 'whatever', and it'd be just a computer, like all the others I've had - that I use to get work done. (and play too).
I’m in an Architects office. There are about 20 architects. 18 use 27” iMacs. I uses a MacBook Pro connected to a 2011 imac as a screen. 1 person uses a no name PC. 19 of the 20 run Windows, I’m the only one using OSX because I don’t use Revit.
Everyone loves their iMacs. They look great. We are Architects...we design things to look good so we like good looking things! For us, having a good looking office is an advertisement of our design skills. The attention to details of the iMac construction is important to us. Because attention to detail is what we do every day.
They are also functional. The screens are beautiful. For our use case, the CPU, GPU and hard drives are fine for Revit, Office suite, Adobe suite. Most people are only running i5 CPUs.
So anyways. The point is, the iMac is the preferred computer here. It beats out every PC we have compared it to, for what is important to us. The only Development we aren’t happy with is having to use Windows in order to run Revit. Cmon Autodesk!!
Everyone loves their iMacs. They look great. We are Architects...we design things to look good so we like good looking things! For us, having a good looking office is an advertisement of our design skills. The attention to details of the iMac construction is important to us. Because attention to detail is what we do every day.
They are also functional. The screens are beautiful. For our use case, the CPU, GPU and hard drives are fine for Revit, Office suite, Adobe suite. Most people are only running i5 CPUs.
So anyways. The point is, the iMac is the preferred computer here. It beats out every PC we have compared it to, for what is important to us. The only Development we aren’t happy with is having to use Windows in order to run Revit. Cmon Autodesk!!
Well they did ditch the DVD drive and used it as an excuse to make a desktop computer that’s wafer thin, which no one asked for ever, and this made the iMac have thermal problems ever since as it hasn’t got the room to breath properly anymore. And so they use underclocked chips in it to reduce that...
I think that was since Jobs died? Not saying it isn’t a fast and capable machine, just if it wasn’t so uselessly thin it could perform even better for the same price.
The 5K was certainly impressive, but the GPUs seemed to lack any real power to use it beyond the norm.
A WOW factor would be if they redesigned the iMac, gave it a bezelless design, made it as thick or thicker as the machines with the DVD drives, gave you access to change the RAM on ALL models yourself.
And fitted decent up to date AMD GPUs, like starting with an RX570 or even the Vega 56 and going up from there.
Sadly they won’t do any of that. Because this is Apple these days. But you never know.
I think that was since Jobs died? Not saying it isn’t a fast and capable machine, just if it wasn’t so uselessly thin it could perform even better for the same price.
The 5K was certainly impressive, but the GPUs seemed to lack any real power to use it beyond the norm.
A WOW factor would be if they redesigned the iMac, gave it a bezelless design, made it as thick or thicker as the machines with the DVD drives, gave you access to change the RAM on ALL models yourself.
And fitted decent up to date AMD GPUs, like starting with an RX570 or even the Vega 56 and going up from there.
Sadly they won’t do any of that. Because this is Apple these days. But you never know.
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Who wants bezelles? Form over function no way.
And you can buy a Dell but then they have also plumped for the non-DVD architecture. And who used DVD these days?
And you can buy a Dell but then they have also plumped for the non-DVD architecture. And who used DVD these days?
Did you forgot the original Macbook Air which Jobs pulled out of an envelope? It also had no DVD drive. Also, at that time Apple was already on the way out on optical disk drives. iDVD's last version is from 2010. IIRC, the first version of FCP X had no option to write to optical disks.