New iMac With 'iPad Pro Design Language' and Thin Bezels Reportedly Coming at WWDC

[mozumder]

An word on iMac Pro? Could use ECC memory.

 

[magicschoolbus]

This could be the most gorgeous iMac ever!

What if the stand moves to a flat surface and runs iOS and supports Apple Pencil?

 

[triangletechie]

Really hope the new design eliminates the dust under the screen issue on the current design.

 

[bobob]

thinner bezels

Where am I going to put my sticky notes?!?

 

[il_teo77]

THAT WOULD BE A GREAT DESIGN!!!

 

[supergt]

Best news to come out of 2020. Hoping for more.

 

[willed]

Hmm I've got 3TB of storage in my 2014 Retina iMac. wonder how much that will cost with this SSD-only version...

 

[high heaven]

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.

 

[Unggoy Murderer]

with a 4K front facing camera ?

The iMac doesn't suffer from the same crazy thinness of the display assembly that the MacBooks inherently have, so I'm sure it'll be a good quality camera. Not that you need 4K video for your MS Teams or Zoom meetings anyway. 😉

 

[ph001bi]

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.

 

[Lowhangers]

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.

 

[newyorksole]

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.

 

[Keniutek]

The Surface Studio design is still miles ahead.

 

[brian017]

As someone who used to opt for Fusion Drives for capacity, how do people with experiences of SSDs find the 128gb in this regard?

 

[zorinlynx]

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.

 

[slineaudi]

Didn't the iMac get the first intel chips? Maybe a new iMac variant will have an option for the first Apple chip!

 

[guzhogi]

If true, it's about time they ditched the Fusion Drive and got a T2. The rest of the Mac lineup had done that years ago.

 

[POLJC]

I'm guessing: 128GB SSD drive, 8GB RAM.

 

[TrackZero72]

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.

 

[goobot]

I wonder where the t3 chip is at.

 

[ignatius345]

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.

 

[guzhogi]

The Surface Studio design is still miles ahead.

Really wish Apple would add in a touch display like the Surface Studio. Would help graphic designers.

 

[Apple2GS]

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.

 

[dannys1]

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.

 

[ouimetnick]

Didn't the iMac get the first intel chips? Maybe a new iMac variant will have an option for the first Apple chip!

Yup. Macworld 2006, intel iMac and MacBook Pro introduction.