I have owned so many Macs. I have Migrated, Restored, Carbon Copied, Duped, Cloned and heaven knows what other new machine Integrations I have gone through since my SE30. Between legacy glitches transferred and so many redundant files wasting space I want a Clean Install machine for a change. When will Big Sur show up on shipping machines? Do you feel me or am I being dumb?
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Waiting for the new machines to come loaded with Big Sur
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It may not be for quite some time - many new units of previous models would continue shipping with the previous macOS well after September/October
"When will Big Sur show up on shipping machines? Do you feel me or am I being dumb?"
I'll reckon November/December.
Yes, I think you're being dumb.
If you need now, BUY now.
I'll reckon November/December.
Yes, I think you're being dumb.
If you need now, BUY now.
I have a late 2013 maxed out 27" and when Big Sur ships it becomes Legacy. You all are right. If I do not want any gremlins in my machine I can reinstall fresh copies of all my apps on a Catalina machine and it will be fine for an upgrade later. When I split my old fusion drive I had to do some Terminal commands and there have been other things installed over the years that I will be glad to leave behind. I doubt many machines as old as mine would be a good candidate as a Source for a 2020 machine.
Done... $2599 before tax.
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- Standard glass
- 3.8GHz 8-core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz
- 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
- Radeon Pro 5700 with 8GB of GDDR6 memory
- 1TB SSD storage
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Magic Trackpad 2
- Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad - US English
OWC has plenty of Ram for the 2020 iMac. If he buys a kit of 4 Ram sticks and gets rid of the 2 existing Apple Ram sticks in the iMac should be good, can’t mix 2 third party Ram sticks and the original apple Ram sticks appearntley they don’t play well together so ALL 4 have to be same OWC or Crucial Ram it same size
If ordered at the same time hopefully the OWC will work. I've seen people ordering a first kit, then ordering a second one and it didn't work. The first was Hynix DRAM chips, the other one was Micron chips. Both cannot coexist in the 2020 iMac.
I thought as long as the sticks had the same amount of RAM, you could get full speed and dual channel in this situation if you install the sticks in the following order:
Hynix
Hynix
Micron
Micron
... and what made you suspect I was buying third party RAM? LOL I wonder if anyone is collecting all these pulled Apple 2x4s
Mayyyybe but if it was mine I wouldn't try it. I would get all the same DRAM chip.
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Because 8 GB for this config is an absolute joke.
Yes but in this config the memory frequency drop because all chips are not the same.
Some buyers must be selling this Apple stock RAM for sure. If 16 GB is enough for you, I'd try to find people selling these stock modules. Ensure it matches the same DRAM manufacturer you currently have (Hynix or Micron).
I purchased 4x of these and worked just fine in my 2020:
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Doesn't anyone find it funny that Apple has yet to seed a Big Sur Beta that is compatible with the new 2020 iMacs? Obviously they had to have known that they were going to be releasing the model well into the development cycle of Big Sur.
Strange how it remains incompatible. Sort of suggests that the current Catalina isn't exactly a kosher build for it as well.
Strange how it remains incompatible. Sort of suggests that the current Catalina isn't exactly a kosher build for it as well.
I am glad I went ahead and ordered now instead of waiting for the 2020 to ship with Big Sur.
You've done all that in the past and you are STILL asking this question? Well, you know the answer to that.
And yes, you are! Sorry but not sorry
And yes, you are! Sorry but not sorry