The intended customer will wirelessly transfer. Heck if you are only using SD cards just plug your camera directly into the iMac or wirelessly transfer. The cards aren't fast enough to outrun a wireless connection.
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New iMac Tidbits: Headphone Jack on Side, Ethernet Port on Power Adapter, Spatial Audio and WiFi 6 Support, No SD Card Slot
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The intended customer will wirelessly transfer. Heck if you are only using SD cards just plug your camera directly into the iMac or wirelessly transfer. The cards aren't fast enough to outrun a wireless connection.
That makes logical sense. My only concern is about the pricing of this prospective larger model. I hope it remains aligned with the pricing of the outgoing 27" iMac.
Well where is Apple’s Prosumer desktop... I can’t afford a Mac Pro and apparently this is for basic consumers?
I am sure when there will be next redesign in some years, everything will be in that powerbrick 
Correct, the ethernet connection is available as an upgrade of 30 USD on the base model
I doubt that the new iMac has a display that’s noticeably better than the 4k ultra sharp from Dell and the new iMac isn’t 5k. And when I want to upgrade my computer, I still have the display.
Wireless transfers from my Canon cameras are slow and annoying. So much easier just to pull the SD card out and plug in.
Right now it is the 27 inch iMac. So far they have done all the entry level consumer machines.
I guess I'm in the minority here, but I love it. The white bezels look good, a different take on the desktop computer. The ethernet port on the power brick is an elegant solution. If I had a consumer facing business, I would definitely pick these up and make sure they color match my corporate branding. All around looks like a nice product from Apple.
It's the larger Intel iMac. If you want an M1 prosumer mac, you're going to have to wait.
Too late to swap the front display out??
I still think the 2020 MacBook Pro 16 with a Intel i9 is a better option while you can still get it. The i9 still beats the M1 with multi-threading applications, the MacBook Pro 16 has more memory, storage and graphic options for purchase. I have a 2019 MacBook Pro and I love it to death. It is going to take a lot for me to move to a new Mac. I want it to surpass the performance of what I have now not equal or less performance in all categories. I would like to see a Mac mini tower, if Apple would put in the performance and upgrading capabilities.
I bought the MacBook Pro 16 because I was taking it to work with me before the pandemic, now I work from home. I almost purchased a Mac Pro tower at $6000 but being away from it so much would not justify the price. I could see a $3500 tower, I like a separate monitor option.
If Apple was trying to reduce desk clutter by putting the ethernet port on the power supply, why not add other ports to it, like USB-A?
I just can't figure out what purpose there was to leave the big chin? Everyone always hated the chin and now I am sure it is 100% not needed. I assume it must be because whats the point of having colour if it isn't on the front of the machine, yet they could have made the bezel be coloured instead of white. I just don't get the design of the front of the machine at all
and who stacks books upon other books?
and where are the persons legs?
the graphic designer probably cut those out accidentally or they took away from this scene.
Hook it directly in via USB. While Canon do like to nerf their SD slot in the cameras, they still read as fast as the old iMac reader. Or better yet, use slot one on your camera which'll be CF or CF Express B with a beefy TB3 reader.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/CFexpress-Single-Slot-ProGrade-Digital-Thunderbolt/dp/B085PXDGDX this one can stick right onto the side of the iMac or your laptop.
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My first Mac was a 2006 iMac so I have always been interested in the desktop, but I just can't get over the design choices here. Every time I look at it, I think it looks terrible. The colors, the white border, the chin, the lack of Apple logo, it looks very half assed to me. Makes no sense.
It 100% is needed since the computer and speakers are in the chin now. Also "everyone" is more like a vocal minority.
There is literally no world where a dongle is a better solution to plugging something directly in to me.
Well putting in a CF Express reader would eat up what could be a TB3 port for a minority. Adding a SD slot in 2021 when the industry has moved on is equally daft. Maybe they'll put out a two pro photographer models with a calibratable screen and one model having CF Express A for Sony shooters and the other having CF Express B for Canon, Nikon, and everyone else.
And the an external reader isn't a dongle, it is an external reader. And as the past has shown the external reader is always markably faster than the internal.
i hate that the ports are all still on back. Even in bottom edge would save me from blindly scratch-locating the ports when needed.
That's cool, now how about a Standalone monitor like this instead of the $million dollar XDR display.
I suspect that only the usual suspects would complain about the chin if it had an Apple logo on it. The new design is temporarily in the uncanny valley for some people and they're grasping at straws to figure out why it bothers them.
That said, the silver model should have black bezels.