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Aston441 said:
Need a bigger iMac. 27 inches minimum, hopefully more. Still shocked they discontinued the 27"
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Same. I still use a late 2012 27" iMac. I've been thinking about updating it for a year or more now, but not with the 24" overpriced "colorful" nonsense they have out now.
 
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SR 7 said:
Who gives a **** about M1, M2 or M3? 95% of the users here have absolutely 0 use for that difference. How about ya'll talk about **** that matters like the increase in pricing, lack of creativity, innovation and standards at Apple? They have fallen so behind in relation to their competition it is pathetic.
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Why are you here? Y'all should be on the sites related to the competition that you think is so superior. Personally I do not consider that creativity, innovation and standards at Apple are "so behind in relation to their competition." As to pricing, in real dollars relative to tech value Apple tech has not been increasing.
 
The remaining months and weeks until WWDC are gonna be the driest, most boring period to date.
 
Realityck said:
The dry gulch starts Monday May 15 thru WWDC. Late April thru Second week in May is a good time to announce more hardware if they can otherwise wait for the show. ;)
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I think they are gonna save whatever remaining hardware for the WWDC.
 
Two years ago practically everyone expected the new iMac to look like…essentially the Studio Display—all screen with computer in the back. Now you can have a Studio Display and have the whatever power you want depending on whether you connect a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. Apple has basically solved the complaints of having an AIO.

And if you buy a Studio Display with a Max Studio Max you’re spending about what a similarly spec’d 6K 27in. iMac would cost you. And since the Mac Studio can sit just under the Studio Display you still have a minimal foorprint on the desk. And the Mac Studio can connect to multiple displays.

Whats the problem?
 
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SR 7 said:
Who gives a **** about M1, M2 or M3? 95% of the users here have absolutely 0 use for that difference. How about ya'll talk about **** that matters like the increase in pricing, lack of creativity, innovation and standards at Apple? They have fallen so behind in relation to their competition it is pathetic.
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The M's are fantastic and in a laptop they still beat everything else on performance vs. battery life and very low or zero fan noise. Pre-M to M was a great transition. And they fixed the horrific defective-by-design laptop keyboards, and brought back MagSafe finally.

But now fully agree what many of us want is a much bigger leap in stuff other than the CPU. iMac/iMac Pro's for Pros - 128 GB RAM+ and big storage for non-insane prices, 27" or larger, built-in power supply not a big ugly brick on the floor. M Mac Pros with AMD/Nvidia GPUs, socketed expandable RAM and lots of slots and storage. External monitors that get revved more often with much better built-in cameras that don't suck.
 
Warped9 said:
Two years ago practically everyone expected the new iMac to look like…essentially the Studio Display—all screen with computer in the back. Now you can have a Studio Display and have the whatever power you want depending on whether you connect a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. Apple has basically solved the complaints of having an AIO.

And if you buy a Studio Display with a Max Studio Max you’re spending about what a similarly spec’d 6K 27in. iMac would cost you. And since the Mac Studio can sit just under the Studio Display you still have a minimal foorprint on the desk. And the Mac Studio can connect to multiple displayes.

Whats the problem?
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Actually 2 years ago we just thought it would look like a bigger 24" iMac, perhaps more metal along the edges. The Studio display is different, but not that unique as Samsung's 27" Viewfinity 5K S9 resemblesl it for likely less $$. For the Mac mini or Mac Studio you have a good pairing. Pair it with laptops and it duplicates some functionality.

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Does the pairing of these two more expensive CPU + Display solves all the complaints of having a AIO, hardly because it not as easy to move all at once like a AIO.

Offering a desktop with a display was commonplace years back. You say a 27" iMac would cost you more than a Stiudio Mac + Studio Display, nope. You could buy a 27" iMac a lot cheaper then the $1999 + $1599. ($3598) USD.

So whats the problem. Some M2/M2 Pro Mac minis, a 2019 Intel Mac Pro with expensive 6K display, A Mac Studio that likely won't see a update because it came so late recently compared to all the other M1 Pro/Max Macs.

Underlying problem a lack of desktop choices that Apple needs to correct. While I like the mini, the studio is OK, but not like a small tower that you could utilize more storage likely. Then you have people waiting to see what the next Mac Pro will offer.
 
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I guess Control Center could use some improvements, but I don't have a lot of faith in Apple to not screw it up! Now days it seems like Apple's "magic touch" in designing simple, elegant, innovative, appealing interfaces has been slipping a bit.
 
Apple needs to let us decide what's in the Control Center, especially important and frequently used items like Location Settings. They've been asked for this for years and still don't listen -- makes you wonder what the product manager does all day.



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JoshLewison said:
Agreed. I feel like Apple has gone backwards: I have a 2019 27" iMac with two external monitors. Perhaps an unusual setup, but now only the Mac Studio will support it: the 24" iMac only supports a single monitor (and is anyway too small) and the Mac Mini only supports two monitors. Really hoping for a new 27" or bigger.
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Correction: Mac Mini with the Max configuration supports three displays and 32 GB RAM.

Personally AIO boxes like iMacs have never made sense to me unless they were mobile, but I know that some folks do like them. Once I borrowed an iMac and used it as a transportable kiosk. It worked great for that, but IMO in every other usage a MBP or a Studio or a Mini are far preferable.
 
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Gawd I hope they update iTunes and iPodcast apps, they seriously suck. Way overdue for revamp. The UX on each can use major changes. That is my only ask.
 
Warped9 said:
If we get a 15in., and maybe 13in., MacBook Air with M3 by summer then I feel confident we'll get the M3 iMac by the end of the year and possibly in the fall.
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Speaking of that, where did anything about MBA15 go. It was hot until we got a million articles about yellow, and I haven't seen a thing since.
 
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Realityck said:
The dry gulch starts Monday May 15 thru WWDC. Late April thru Second week in May is a good time to announce more hardware if they can otherwise wait for the show. ;)
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The Studio Max screams for an update to M2, and there is no reason to complicate WWDC with it. It makes total sense to give us M2 Studio Max between now and May 15. Apple could/should and probably will hold off on whatever a Studio Ultra might be until after a Mac Pro is announced.
 
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