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I'm not that excited about another Intel Mac cause their CPU sucks... 10th gen desktop CPU isn't that better than 9th gen and yet it is much hotter. I have no idea what they are thinking.
 
with a 4K front facing camera ?
Let's not get totally carried away, alright?
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I'm not that excited about another Intel Mac cause their CPU sucks... 10th gen desktop CPU isn't that better than 9th gen and yet it is much hotter. I have no idea what they are thinking.
So you're assuming that they're thinking? You're a brave man.
 
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thicker for improved cooling ?

That is exactly what I was going to ask! I had a 5K iMac I had to get rid of because it kept overheating, and it was ridiculously hard to clean dust out of the vents. I had to use a butter knife with a dust cloth wrapped around it and shoved it up into the skinny vent.

It's a damn desktop! It does not need to be thin.
 
You buy a new iMac once every one or two years?? What a waste!

It’s not a waste. I bought the 2019 model after owning the 2010 model for almost 10 years. I’m going to sell it probably for more than I paid.

We’ll see what happens with the reveal.
 
Ugh, the T2 chip has caused nothing but trouble in the machines its been in. Keep this scourge out of the iMacs. :(
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Oh yes! My current iMac is close to 7 years old now, while working extremely well still, I'm desperate for a replacement.

Really, just buy a current model. You don't need a T2 chip. They're nothing but trouble.
 
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I'm wondering if this is what Steve Jobs ment with "The next transition is going to be very uncomfortable for a lot of people".. Not an exact quote but I remember him saying that during an interview.
 
will go all-flash on the storage front with the discontinuation of the hybrid Fusion Drive system that has paired a smaller SSD with a larger traditional hard drive to balance speed and capacity.

It's about time. I was bullish on the Fusion Drive when I first got my iMac 5K. In theory it's the best of both worlds and the performance is massively better than an HDD and a lot cheaper than an SSD of the same size.

What they don't tell you, though, is that the SSD part of the Fusion Drive gets absolutely hammered with wear as you use it.

Data is constantly being migrated onto and off of it as you work. (That's by design -- after all, the logic is that the stuff you're actively working on is moved to the SSD). But all that throughput, with the tiny SSDs Apple provides in these systems, destroys them with wear. After about 4 years, the 128GB SSD in my Fusion Drive was showing less than 10% of its lifetime left before I opened the thing up and installed a big SATA SSD. So, as far as I'm concerned, Fusion Drives are basically a ticking time bomb. Also remember, some of the SSDs in Fusion Drives are a measly 32GB, exposing them to even worse wear rates than mine.
 
Are they sticking with 27" as the largest size? Probably smart, as anything bigger really needs a curved display, imo. And I don't see Apple going curved.
 
I can't believe you guys have only just worked out a new iMac was coming at WWDC - all the signs have been showing it for the last month now. All base level iMacs are out of stock until after WWDC.
 
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