Yes and No. Apple's SSDs are also NVMe's.
The "trick" to getting them to run at 3300 instead of 2100 is simply a RAID0 pair that's invisible to the end user.
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M1 iMac Configurations and Pricing Breakdown
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Yes and No. Apple's SSDs are also NVMe's.
The "trick" to getting them to run at 3300 instead of 2100 is simply a RAID0 pair that's invisible to the end user.
You hit the nail on the head. People need to be looking at RAM differently with these M1 Macs. They are outperforming maxed out machines with 32GB of RAM.
I remember reading an article when the new air first came out. The person was saying how the air was going toe to toe with their maxed out Pro machine from the previous year. The difference was the air was $999 and their machine was over $3K.
You can have 1 or 2 TB SSD, but it wont be cheap.
Look:
iMac - iMac Technical Specifications
See all the technical specifications for iMac with the M4 chip and 24-inch display.
www.apple.com
Yeah, but that person forgot mentioning that brutal swapping/writing to the SSD, that the machine is doing, when there is simply not enough RAM... For whatever reason (marketing? brainwashing?) people simply forget, that the integrated GPU (graphics) are also sharing the same RAM.
And 8 GB is, well not that much.
Some will say, that programs will work the same on a computer with 8GB RAM as with 16GB and up. Of course they will, but the fun begins, when there wont be enough RAM anymore.
the chin on these is ugly and a design oversight to say the least. All that wasted space that you're staring at that serves absolutely no purpose. $1700 for a midrange spec'd machine with a small 24" display is outrageous. Why would anyone get one of these when they can just get an m1 macbook and hookup a 27" external display to it instead?
Nothing on the new M1 Macs is user upgradeable... unless you fancy yourself adept with a soldering iron.
What's in it when you buy it is all that will ever be in it.
$1600 CAD for the entry level base model.
As cool as the M1 and hardware might be, that is not a reasonable price point for their entry level iMac at 21".
its a neat computer. But it's not a $1600 CAD computer.
As cool as the M1 and hardware might be, that is not a reasonable price point for their entry level iMac at 21".
its a neat computer. But it's not a $1600 CAD computer.
You also get webcam, speakers & mic thrown in. I have a 2018 MM +Cinema Display. I still need a wonky webcam sitting onto the display and with no built in speakers I need headphones or external speakers.
Don't upgrade the RAM to 16GB, when buying the 27''. Buy the 8GB base model and stuff it with another 32GB for less than the Apple upgrade price (it comes with 4 memory slots, two still free). This way you have a 40GB machine for less than what you would pay Apple for a 16GB rig.
Its the most boring iMac design, strangest specs line up and pricing ever. Feels like a few steps back. No buy.
But if there's not big bezels ... then where am I going to stick my Post-it Pad notes?
The larger iMac version will -- obviously -- come later. And it gives some of us the knowledge to decide if to buy one of those instead of an M1 iMac before they disappear.
YMMV on just what one considers 'expensive'
For example, Wyze has been selling stand-alone 1080p WiFi-based webcams for $20 (retail) for the past 2-3 years; their new version 3 has improved low-light capability ("CMOS starlight") is now $24 (retail).
If the colours were rich all over, like on the back, and the keyboard keys & bezels were black, and they added a subtle apple logo (like on the back) to that chin... I'd consider it.
As it stands, the bezel looks terrible in white, the colours from the front are insipid and the lack of any Apple branding on the front makes it look like some generic junk. The vertical lines of the stand look weird too.
As it stands, the bezel looks terrible in white, the colours from the front are insipid and the lack of any Apple branding on the front makes it look like some generic junk. The vertical lines of the stand look weird too.
The early generation (1999-2004 until 2008) Cinema Displays didn't...
...but the LED Cinema Displays (2008-11) did have all three (iSight + Mic + Stereo Speakers)
Likewise too for the Thunderbolt Displays (2011-16)
This is the strangest product from Apple in a while. Underspec'd, overspriced, and odd design. Seems their thin obsession worked against them. Make it fatter with less chin, it's a desktop, who cares how thin it is. Not sure who this is for really. I will stick with my Pro in an external display.
These limits exist because these are the specs of the M1 SOC. it’s what you get with the first generation of Apple Silicon.
The next generations will be faster with more RAM and better gpus.
You may not be impressed by the specs but no new Apple computer is ever going to be slower than the base M1s. If they’re not good enough you’ll just have to be patient.
This is factually misinformation.
Apple doesn't make their own SSD chips and is using the same basic chips as available to most on the market. Apple is just chosing to solder those chips directly to the PCI-E lanes instead, where NVME drives just commonly refer to the form factor (though not entirely correct either)
Both are based on 4 lanes of PCI-E fed by a storage controller. And in today's computers, the bottleneck is just what chips are purchased. Apple is buying good quality chips that cna handle a lot of performance. But so can any one of us.
any brand name NVME is going to hit 3500 mbps on today's hardware. PCI-E Gen 4 will hit 4000 to 5500.
And you'd be absolutely shocked how cheap it is to get this speed today. Samsung 970 Evo's can be found for around $100 for 1tb and will easily hit 3300mbps.
strange design, have to say after all the years loving apple products I admit this product I cringed at!
and the keynote was a right cheese fest, it was over camp like some play school early learning event.
The iMac is now the Mac Pad and the iPad has now become the Pady Mac.
Seeing as they got the computer into the thin design of the chin, they would of been far better incorporating the logic board into the upright of the stand. ports then would of been placed at the back out the way and wouldn’t swivel with the screen.
Then the screen could of lost the chin, possibly more bezel and been razor thin or at least as thin as the 90s 1080p camera.
Anyway enjoy your new MacPad touchless iPad plug in the wall thing with the crazy colours and that shocking chin.
and the keynote was a right cheese fest, it was over camp like some play school early learning event.
The iMac is now the Mac Pad and the iPad has now become the Pady Mac.
Seeing as they got the computer into the thin design of the chin, they would of been far better incorporating the logic board into the upright of the stand. ports then would of been placed at the back out the way and wouldn’t swivel with the screen.
Then the screen could of lost the chin, possibly more bezel and been razor thin or at least as thin as the 90s 1080p camera.
Anyway enjoy your new MacPad touchless iPad plug in the wall thing with the crazy colours and that shocking chin.
I won’t buy one simply because 24’ is so small now that I am used to 34’ UWD, but the prices of the new iMacs are fair, at least in the US.
Which LG did you get? I am looking for mini plus screen, but a screen I can also plug in my Air. Any idea if that would work?
If that is the case, you won't have to worry about putting any Macs in your will.