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New Low-Cost iMac Nearly 50% Slower in Multi-Core, 10% Slower in Single-Core Benchmarks

QuadG5Man said:
The purpose might be to clear out inventory before the retina iMacs..?
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Why would Apple introduce a new iMac configuration if they're trying to clear out inventory?

Do you think they just had too many 21" chassis laying around?

Doubtful... Apple is pretty much a just-in-time manufacturer. They don't collect excess inventory.

No... if they wanted to clear out inventory... they would drop the price of the latest iMac (Late 2013) and not make any more.

They wouldn't create a new model.
 
iCore24 said:
What about the power users!! The ones who waited to get a beast machine! They got to upgrade this low end version and end up paying more...
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what on earth

'Power users' have already bought their Mac Pros and higher-end iMacs/Macs Mini. They can't afford to sit around and wait.

They certainly aren't going to upgrade this version.

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Some of these comments make it sound like people think Apple actually took screwdrivers to existing iMacs and ripped out the internals and put in lower-spec hardware. It's another option in the line up, everything else is still there, AFAIK. They didn't 'make it slower'.

I also think half the people who crow about needing particular specs will never use them; they just want to feel like bigshots who buy the larger model.
 
Someone said this smells like a bean counter move and I agree. Not sure what's up with some of Apple's hardware decisions recently, but things like the iPhone 5c and this iMac... they're potentially valid segments of their respective product lines but they're just not being priced that way. The substantial drops in performance and/or features do not seem to measure out with the marginal price savings.

Apple, you guys are sitting on a profit surplus that we could climb to the moon if we cashed it out and stacked it, stop being such misers with these price points.
 
At least the Mac mini isn't going anywhere...
This pretty much keeps the $599 mini as a must in the Mac lineup.
 
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Rejoice, all who wanted a 'cheaper' iMac

Why arent these cheaper?

Oh these are cheap, but why are they below par? These should be cheaper

Such people will never shut the **** up.
 
venom600 said:
Don't be melodramatic... It's as fast as a Macbook Air, which has proven more than fast enough for the majority of users.
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Wrong, its actually slower macine than any mb air - no ssd. Much better deal is to buy air and own lcd than this piece of ....
 
spacerays said:
Why arent these cheaper?

Oh these are cheap, but why are they below par? These should be cheaper

Such people will never shut the **** up.
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Whoa man, sorry that some of us don't just leave our mouths open and gobble up every bad idea sold. Do you think this machine is a good value for its savings after reading through those benchmark scores? I don't.
 
I don't think this is the way Steve Jobs would have wanted this introduced in this fashion. People are liable to make jokes about an iMac line for Walmart.
 
super tomtendo said:
"We don't ship junk" - Steve Jobs

What you said is mostly true, but this is the wrong way to go around it. This is borderline criminal (yes, I'm being sarcastic)! But this machine at THIS PRICE is a horrible, horrible deal. And quite frankly, is JUNK.

They could of released a better computer or at least had this computer start at $899-$999. This is the same processor as the current MBA "11 inch... terrible.
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It's not junk. Not by any definition of the word, whether in the dictionary or the way Jobs used it. It could have been a lower price... but it's not. It's still one of the cheapest Macs you can buy. And again, any processor used in any new machine in 2014 is good enough for general-purpose desktop computing. You mentioned in a reply to someone else that this is going to hurt the Apple brand... this will do no such thing. The performance of this machine is more than good enough to satisfy people moving over from Windows. Specs don't matter if the machine does what you need it to, and it is a fact that this machine will do what the average person needs it do, and do it well. You and I are not average people, we have a higher standard for how we want our machines to perform.
 
Radio said:
Great for the soccer mom I suppose

Who is the target market?
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Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Email, browsing, word docs, spreadsheets...Pretty much the majority of PC consumers who will never do anything that exposes the difference between even an ARM based PC and top end i7.
 
Yvan256 said:
I really don't understand why they went with an ULV CPU for a desktop computer as big as an iMac, especially if they had to put a HDD half the size and still weren't able to lower the price by more than 200$USD. :confused:
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People want thin at all costs!

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I must be wrong, but I thought a super efficient chip - one designed specifically to eek a extra minutes out of a battery - would be more expensive than a similarly powerful regular (desktop) chip. - replies appropriated:).
 
omgwut said:
Whoa man, sorry that some of us don't just leave our mouths open and gobble up every bad idea sold. Do you think this machine is a good value for its savings after reading through those benchmark scores? I don't.
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For most applications there is a performance threshold below which performance/dollar is meaningless. Below this threshold the value is simply in saving money. This is especially true for a bulk purchase. The same type of thing was said not long ago regarding the iPad 2 still being for sale, and how the value wasn't there. Those things were being gobbled up in bulk for applications that didn't demand better hardware, so the cost savings was critical.
 
Carouser said:
what on earth

'Power users' have already bought their Mac Pros and higher-end iMacs/Macs Mini. They can't afford to sit around and wait.

They certainly aren't going to upgrade this version.

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Some of these comments make it sound like people think Apple actually took screwdrivers to existing iMacs and ripped out the internals and put in lower-spec hardware. It's another option in the line up, everything else is still there, AFAIK. They didn't 'make it slower'.

I also think half the people who crow about needing particular specs will never use them; they just want to feel like bigshots who buy the larger model.
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I think they just don't want to feel embarrassed when they tell all their l33t PC friends with kewl custom blue LED-covered chassis that they own an iMac. :rolleyes:
 
so I can buy this 2010 piece of hardware for $1100
-or-
buy a late 2012 Mac Mini ($600)+ a nice 24" monitor ($200) + a nice SSD upgrade ($100 for 256G on sale) for $900 which will easily be 2x faster. Not to mention selling the traditional HDD stock drive on ebay if I so choose.

Where is the value prop in this NEW piece of hardware?

I think apple will eventually end of life the Mac Mini because they can't justify the ridiculously expensive iMacs...
 
omgwut said:
Whoa man, sorry that some of us don't just leave our mouths open and gobble up every bad idea sold. Do you think this machine is a good value for its savings after reading through those benchmark scores? I don't.
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This is what happens when some people cry hoarse for cheaper things with better performance. Just not gonna happen.

Even my 2011 iMac 21.5" performs better than this. What I didnt do was cry that I want it cheaper. When I want a better thing, I would rather pay its worth.

The irony is that almost no one of the crybabies is ever gonna use even this iMac to its full potential. They just crave the pseudo-satisfaction of knowing that they got something with great potential, forget the eventual disuse.
 
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