I can see them making the iMac RAM replaceable by Apple, just like the iMac Pro.
My suspicion is the 2019 iMac will be the last one with user upgradeable RAM.
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My suspicion is the 2019 iMac will be the last one with user upgradeable RAM.
Selling like hotcakes is iPad and mobile Macs. There’s not a single configuration of any non-mobile Mac that would sell better than any of the mobile solutions. Ever.
And, I really don’t understand why so many people don’t want Apple to provide a choice for folks that don’t want/need SSD. Either way, T2 may mean that SSD is required, so there will probably be just an increase in price.
Aren’t they for heat dissipation?
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Folks that grew up in the world where Apple was trying to find it’s design language are used to wild swings in design direction. Now that Apple has solutions across the board that well fit the purpose, there are far fewer random departures.
Those folks still want to see new designs because it “feels” normal to have new designs regularly. So, yeah, could be a little change for change’s sake.
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SSD only storage is a must for me. I've been waiting for years to update my iMac but I refuse to pay apples price for 1 TB SSD. I can buy a 1TB M2 ssd for around $100 so apple is paying much less, so this should be standard. Even the next generation of gaming consoles are going full SSD, so if apple doesn't finally ditch the spindle drive it's a failure once again.
The rumour about apple manufacturing it's own CPU has some biased interpretatios.
1st, neither Kuo nor Bloomberg specifically mentioned Apple to adopt ARM for those CPU.
2nd, all the bloggers speculating about ARM Mac seems ignore AMD not just develop semi-custom CPU, but ALSO license it's manufacturing, even both AMD Zen CPUs and Apple Axx SOC are manufactured at TSMC wit the same 7nm process, so in case of AMD shortness apple could bring to AMD their contracted waffers for Mac CPUs.
License Zen it's simpler and much cheaper than a painful macOS rebuild for ARM, and safer (an Apple sales offer) as no need to debug hundred of million if code lines, neither need to wait for compatible software or chopped VM .
Don't hold your breath waiting for an all arm Mac.
Yes but, don't seems you a bit exaggerated cooling? Wfst that exaggeration does is to introduce you inside Mac new design language, as you see an bold "pro display HDR"-like iMac More attractive than update first the iMac with the holes design and later launch the pro display HDR which looks like the new iMac cheese grater.
Just marketing .
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Apple's SSDs may appear to be expensive but they are some of the fastest PCIe NAND available. Most PC naysayers are picking some lowball poor quality relatively poor speed rubbish to compare with Apple's top of the range NAND.
To compare, Amazon are currently selling 1Tb of Samsung 970Pro M.2 NVME for $347 at time of writing. Even their value product 970EVO is $199.
I have said in the past that Apple should just replace HDD with SSD, even SATA if they are trying to hit a price point but we're now at the stage where Apple could be sticking to their guns and replacing HDD with their best NAND.
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No, it doesn’t look exaggerated. The holes are functional... the design has more air than metal for the volume, is still structurally sound and dissipates heat very well as a result.
The point is the pro display HDR actually doesn't need that much cooling to need thus cheese grater design, btw it's an excellent way to introduce a new design language which solves an old persistent Mac issue: heat.
Lets dream of a half decent redesign on the iMac. Fewer bezels, target display mode, a T2 chip that delivers UHD video support and Face ID and most importantly proper, full sized, replaceable desktop GPU support. Oh, and drop the god forsaken Lightning port on the accessories for USB-C charging like it always should have been.
Sadly I do not expect that at all. Maybe I'll stick to trying to cobble together a gaming machine with a Mac Mini and an eGPU the new model has slightly less embarrassing thermals.
Sadly I do not expect that at all. Maybe I'll stick to trying to cobble together a gaming machine with a Mac Mini and an eGPU the new model has slightly less embarrassing thermals.
You'd be surprised at how hot monitors get. Yes, it looks like a continuation of the existing Mac design language, it's also very practical for a VESA mount, lighter, and if applied to an iMac it hints at the loss of the HDD (at last!)
I'm sure I won't be the only person to point this out, but the lamp design (as cool as it was, I had a 17" and loved it) precludes the use of standard VESA mounting like you can opt for on the current iMacs-- and the VESA stuff allows for way more ergonomic setups than the old Pixar tribute iMac.
an entirely new design and platform... Much like the XDR display... That same card in the Mac Pro is being cooled by air, I am sure they can figure it out. They're smart.
Kuo did: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/24/mac-apple-designed-processor-2021/
We expect that Apple's new products in 12-18 months will adopt processors made by 5nm process, including the new 2H20 5G iPhone, new 2H20 iPad equipped with mini LED, and new 1H21 Mac equipped with the own-design processor. We think that iPhone 5G support, iPad's adoption of innovative mid-size panel technology, and Mac's first adoption of the own-design processor are all Apple's critical product and technology strategies
Even Intel has told some investors that they expect Apple to switch away from Intel CPUs in the near future: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-arm-cpus-2020-intel,38668.html
Intel officials and developers have reportedly told Axios that Apple is preparing to launch Arm-based Macbooks next year. The report follows a story from Bloomberg Wednesday saying that Apple plans on combining iOS and macOS applications by 2021.
Apple does not need to debug every code, iOS and macOS shares most of the same kernel, subsystems and so on. iOS is a fork of macOS that's optimized for ARM, they're not two separate OS, they're all the same core with separate UI on top (Cocoa vs. Cocoa Touch). They only need to optimize the UI on top of macOS for ARM and they're already doing that along with testing it with Mac Catalyst. Even Microsoft is doing an ARM version of Windows that Apple can provide support for Bootcamp with.
Apple has every intentions to switch to their own CPU/GPU designs for Macs, there is no reason to switch to AMD if they're close to using their own SoC designs, they're not likely to optimize for both ARM and AMD together in such a short timeframe but it is possible they may do AMD for a short period of time to avoid Intel's shortage and/or CPU issues.
Apple's SSD's are PCIE AND MLC, you can't get a 1 TB ssd MLC for $100, try again.
I'd buy a Mac Mini with a real GPU. If they can put one in the 16" MBP surely they can put it in the Mac Mini.
The current betas of macOS Catalina have code showing support for AMD CPU's, not just GPU's.
That's not a bezel. It's a sticky-note mount.
Apple is not switching to AMD and then shortly after to Arm, if AMD got to this point 5 years back they might have, it's too late now.
Would be great if Intel gave them a reason to.
Yeah, in addition, this monitor is 1000 nits normal and can peak to 1600 nits. You don’t get that bright without generating a good amount of heat.
