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New Low-Cost iMac Nearly 50% Slower in Multi-Core, 10% Slower in Single-Core Benchmarks
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So you believe that Moore's law has actually come to a complete end do you?
Top dollar for less-than-average tech is really starting to not add up.
Tiny SSD's still!
Crappy GFX card's as standard.
Price-gouging Apple extra's which should be standard..... /sigh.
...and when I say top dollar for less-than tech I'm talking about their entire iMac and MBP range, not just this £900 underpowered, cheapo imac.
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i think part of the idea behind apple nowadays is to provide this amazing ecosystem of interoperability and clever features that are only available to osx and ios owners which then allows them to charge much more for much less hardware-wise. It is no longer apples to apples comparisons (pun intended) because this machine will include a lifetime of free OS upgrades and many many included tools. You really do not need to buy any software with a mac anymore now that they have doubled down on the iCloud side and with all the other free software it comes with.
true the price does not alone justify the product from a purely hardware perspective but that is no longer what you are buying when you buy a mac. you are buying the ecosystem which cost apple way more to deliver then whatever additional services and software comes with a dell or any other computer for example.
as an interesting poll how much does everyone feel the 'ecosystem' and software and services apple provides is worth of the computer price itself? i think this value has been steadily growing over the past year or so and people are taking that benefit for granted.
apple does not really make their money on software so they must make it on hardware.
true the price does not alone justify the product from a purely hardware perspective but that is no longer what you are buying when you buy a mac. you are buying the ecosystem which cost apple way more to deliver then whatever additional services and software comes with a dell or any other computer for example.
as an interesting poll how much does everyone feel the 'ecosystem' and software and services apple provides is worth of the computer price itself? i think this value has been steadily growing over the past year or so and people are taking that benefit for granted.
apple does not really make their money on software so they must make it on hardware.
I don't like this Apple trend of marginally "cheaper" devices with ridiculously reduced parameters. 8GB iPhone 5c version instead of just dropping the price of 16GB. Entirely new, slower version of iMac instead of just dropping the price of the existing lowest config. These just look like bean-counter moves.
It hurts the reputation of the brand.
What amazes me is that so many people keep saying that this iMac doesn't have a Fusion drive or SSD. For crying out loud, these low cost iMacs do have Fusion and 256GB SSD options. You just have to BTO it.
It's what they use to do in the old days before Jobs took over and rescued them.
Because Intel expects the desktop CPUs to be used in computers that are going to have some real expandability [cough*slots*cough] and use [gasp!] actual graphics cards if the performance is so important.
Apple Executive Meeting:
Jony: Tim, have you heard? Microsoft is putting laptop CPU's in tablets
Tim: F that and F Microsoft! Let's do the opposite and put them in desktops
HD4600s don't really exist on iMacs with dGPUs because Apple has something in the EFI code to disable the iGPU on iMacs if a dGPU is present.
I have to laugh when I read some post saying that "But it comes with lifetime OS/X updates".
That "lifetime" is usually only a few years, and this by design. Like with the original 2006 Mac Pro which is stuck at OS/X 10.7 Lion, although that same Mac Pro is much superior to the new Clunker iMac in almost every way.
Anyone happy with the Clunker iMac would be even more happy with a ChromeBook and the US$800 savings.
That "lifetime" is usually only a few years, and this by design. Like with the original 2006 Mac Pro which is stuck at OS/X 10.7 Lion, although that same Mac Pro is much superior to the new Clunker iMac in almost every way.
Anyone happy with the Clunker iMac would be even more happy with a ChromeBook and the US$800 savings.
Gotta be aimed at the schools surely, eMac style.
The only plausible explanation I can come up with also; schools or institutional. Everything else I try to think of, defies logic. And for that matter, I suspect even developing markets won't embrace this thing in large numbers, but I'll gladly be wrong about that.
Downgrading would be selling a weaker iMac at 1299 and 1499. There's nothing to downgrade from as this is a new addition to the line at a new price point. The remaining iMacs were unaffected by this move. Again, nothing was downgraded.
Can't believe they did no unleash this Beast at WWDC, clearly its part of the best Product line up ever!
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I am sure there will be a place for it in Hairdressers, Beauty saloons, reservation lobby's, where it can act like a fashion accessory, other than that, its overpriced for what it is.
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I am sure there will be a place for it in Hairdressers, Beauty saloons, reservation lobby's, where it can act like a fashion accessory, other than that, its overpriced for what it is.
5) Doesn't run OS X - the value for consumers looking for a Mac is because it isn't a Windows computer - the OS has value in that it differentiates the brand from all the rest which can only compete on two things - price and specifications, attention to detail and support don't even enter the equation for pretty much every Windows OEM out there (and why would it when price and specifications are the only two differentiators which creates the race to the bottom and razor thin margins which mean things have to be culled - the standard features that give Apple the edge).
Maybe a performance test
for possible ARM based Macs, about 2x the performance of an iPad Air
http://rene.rebe.de/2014-06-19/the-new-entry-level-imac144-and-arm-transition/
for possible ARM based Macs, about 2x the performance of an iPad Air
http://rene.rebe.de/2014-06-19/the-new-entry-level-imac144-and-arm-transition/
I'd like to see Apple make this statement about the new iMac.
This would make it clear that anyone thinking about doing any business related stuff on the computer should stay clear of this model.
Don't know why the doom and gloom. Was at the Apple Store yesterday and people were looking at the new model as an option for a nice iMac.
I also tried out the equivalent MacBook Air and it seemed to do everything an average Apple user does - iPhoto, e-mail, Safari, Office App.
I also tried out the equivalent MacBook Air and it seemed to do everything an average Apple user does - iPhoto, e-mail, Safari, Office App.
That is true of every single event and thing ever. So when should we stop and discuss? For untruths only?
That's a false dilemma between "only discuss untruths" and "make irrelevant complaints over and over". If you can't think up anything else to discuss, then yes, there's probably no need to post.
Why? unless you're doing something major I doubt that a copy of Microsoft Office 2011 is going to stress the machine to the point that it is unusable even for spreadsheet jockey's dealing with many sheets and cells.
Remember when they said not many people needed "trucks" ie, powerful desktop computers?
This thing is a Barbie car.
This thing is a Barbie car.