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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

ruka.snow said:
From what I can gather, thats a £400 amplifier and say £100 speakers at worst. It'll sound better than the built in speakers for sure, but it doesn't vibe as the target market for a AIO iMac that the dedicated a good bit of marketing about how great the built in speakers are. I actually imagine they expect if anything you'll connect a HomePod to it.
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The Cyrus II hasn't been made since the early 1990s. I still use one with a PSX. Never been a fan of Class D units. I had an iMac, there's a picture of it somewhere on this site.
 
MacBH928 said:
So now the the iMac is just a Mac Mini with a built in display? No dedicated GPU?

I don't know why they have a chin, but if they could put the components behind the display instead of below it that would have made much more sense.
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That's about it — nothing special in other words.
 
ruka.snow said:
Good to see them removing the SD slot, that is a dead end tech for pro's and consumers have iPhones now not the lower end DSLR's. Maybe a CF Express B slot could make it to the pro model as pro's will be using that slot for the next decade.

Would have liked to have seen more TB3 slots, but that looks to be a M1 limitation and the users of these machines will likely never plug anything in but their keyboard to charge it.

The headphone port on the side makes a lot of sense, they aren't intending you to plug in external speakers so the port on the side gives you easy access for headphones and I doubt the machine is thick enough to have the port on the back.

Would have liked to have seen them use the base for the power brick, but that would be a bother for the VESA mounted edition.
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"Dead tech", lol. I'm assuming you don't use "pro equipment". What a goofy comment.
 
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macwant said:
Seeing everyone complain about white bezels on an iMac is hilarious. The iMac G3, G4, and G5 ALL had white fronts. This isn’t some new development, its old meets new.
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The weirdest disconnect in these comments are, “Hey, time marches on! Forget your SD cards and USB-A!” combined with, “Hey, Apple USED to have white bezels on everything. What’s old is new again!” Are people saying they want a 20 year old design language that lacks modern convenience? Weird.
 
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courtma41 said:
"Why would they remove the floppy disk!?" - '98
"But I NEED my optical drive!!" - '08
"No headphone jack!?!" - '16
"How will I survive without an SD reader?" - '21

Adapt or die.
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All of those had viable alternatives, and Apple helped push adoption.

All of today's professional cameras and gear still use SD cards and will for quite some time to come. It's flash memory. Essentially an SSD. What more do you want? You can't easily transfer 256GB via WIFI.
 
Orange Bat said:
The weirdest disconnect in these comments are, “Hey, time marches on! Forget your SD cards and USB-A!” combined with, “Hey, Apple USED to have white bezels on everything. What’s old is new again!” Are people saying they want a 20 year old design language that lacks modern convenience? Weird.
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Lol.. another way to see it is, they'll buy and praise anything they put out.
 
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DekuBleep said:
I am assuming that Apple is going to launch a 32” iMac with an M2 chip and a lot of ports in fall 2021. That that’s just my guess.
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What's this obsession with making everything thinner and bigger? My neck hurts from even thinking about a 32" display.
 
Spock said:
Buy a Mac mini then take the $700 you saved and buy a nice display, keyboard and mouse. Or, buy a new Mac mini, hook it up to whatever you have laying around the house, spend an extra $99 and get an M1 powered iPad Pro and get two devices for just about the price of one base model iMac.
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seems like apples (haha) to oranges when comparing displays. You can get a mini LED display with these specs anywhere near the price you mention. So your premise is you can downgrade stuff and save money? True, you have a point
 
ruka.snow said:
It was a consumer format. Pro's use CF Express A and B now and before that used CF, XQD, and CFast. At least in the photography world, I have heard sound engineers still use SD.
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Exactly. Pros need a multi slot card dock anyway. SD cards are just one of many formats.

Maybe some consumers want to swap a mini or micro SD in a sled from their android phone, but Apple isn’t going to build around the android use case.
 
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Orange Bat said:
I need a new Mac for work. I don’t need a laptop at this time, and my finances have taken a hit over the last year. For me it is between a Mac Mini and iMac. I like everything about this iMac: the Ethernet port, the headphone jack on the side, the thinness of it all. But I really, really, really hate the colors and the white bezel around the screen. Also, without a bump in specs, the Mac Mini is looking more attractive at this point. I can essentially but the mini and a 4K monitor for less than the iMac. And I like iMacs! I like the all-in-one nature of them. But the lack of a more professional color is a real dealbreaker for pros who don‘t need top-of-the-line machines. Seems like a needless missed opportunity, IMO.
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Can you point me to a link where you can get a 4 or 5k mini LED monitor and save money? If you just want to downgrade some specs to save money, I hear yah.
 
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flottenheimer said:
[MS Surface Studio pic] Better looking?
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Immensely so - and far more interesting. Instead of continually explaining why touch/pen screens are useless on a desktop, MS got on their bike and designed a desktop that actually took advantage of them. And had the courage to give it a 4:3 screen (If I want to watch 16:9 TV without black bars I'll spend £500 on a 50" TV, thanks - for everything else 4:3, at that size, is just better).

Sadly, MS then landed it with a feeble CPU/GPU/storage spec and a ludicrous price tag that makes any iMac look like an absolute bargain. The price only begins to make sense if you compare it with an iMac paired with a nice big Wacom Cintriq - except then the MS Surface's spec is still pathetic against an iMac (even when it came out a couple of years back - and as far as I can tell it's still rocking a 7th gen i7 at the original price...)

Apple are really lucky that MS doesn't seem to want to actually sell these.
 
DesertNomad said:
I use SD cards frequently. As a pilot, our aircraft even uses SD cards to update our navigation databases every 28 days. SD cards are going to be around for a long time.
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I know it’s a dongle to buy, but SD card readers literally cost $8-10 at Amazon and Walmart. And those read multiple formats.
 
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Orange Bat said:
The weirdest disconnect in these comments are, “Hey, time marches on! Forget your SD cards and USB-A!” combined with, “Hey, Apple USED to have white bezels on everything. What’s old is new again!” Are people saying they want a 20 year old design language that lacks modern convenience? Weird.
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I said nothing about SD cards or USB A. I said the iMac has since it’s inception had white bezels until they switched to Intel chips. What about white bezels lacks modern convenience?
 
MacFan782040 said:
"Dead tech", lol. I'm assuming you don't use "pro equipment". What a goofy comment.
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You don't think the Nikon D6, Z6ii, and D500 are pro equipment? You don't think £500+ CF Express B cards are professional but silly little flimsy SD cards are?

Pro photographers moved film>CF>XQD/CFast>CF Express. SD was always moon the consumer lines and is indeed a dead tech.

Anything that still uses SD as its primary storage can wirelessly transfer to an iMac or plug directly in with USB-C. Pro's will use an external reader over TB3 as amazingly CF Express cards not only get a bit hot, but they need TB3 and a fast SSD to be dumped at full speed.
 
ikramerica said:
Maybe some consumers want to swap a mini or micro SD in a sled from their android phone, but Apple isn’t going to build around the android use case.
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Even then with Android, wouldn't the photos not just 'magically' appear on the computer with whatever equivalent Android has to Photos?
 
ruka.snow said:
Good to see them removing the SD slot, that is a dead end tech for pro's and consumers have iPhones now not the lower end DSLR's. Maybe a CF Express B slot could make it to the pro model as pro's will be using that slot for the next decade.

Would have liked to have seen more TB3 slots, but that looks to be a M1 limitation and the users of these machines will likely never plug anything in but their keyboard to charge it.

The headphone port on the side makes a lot of sense, they aren't intending you to plug in external speakers so the port on the side gives you easy access for headphones and I doubt the machine is thick enough to have the port on the back.

Would have liked to have seen them use the base for the power brick, but that would be a bother for the VESA mounted edition.
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The removal to the SD slot would be an issue for me. I use it on my current iMac pretty much every day. iPhones are ok for snap shots, but not for real photography.
 
MauiPa said:
seems like apples (haha) to oranges when comparing displays. You can get a mini LED display with these specs anywhere near the price you mention. So your premise is you can downgrade stuff and save money? True, you have a point
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The 11 inch iPad Pro does not have mini LED and that’s the iPad I am talking about.
 
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ruka.snow said:
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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As someone who uses a real camera every day, and transfers images, plugging in the SD card is more convent than plugging a cable into the computer and then into the camera. I would think most people would rather have two times as many ports on the back of their computer than what is currently being offered. A sleek looking machine with a desktop cluttered with adapters and cables doesn't interest me.
 
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