What size Apple Silicon iMac are you most interested in?

[Hexley]

Will see what they are priced at, but I currently do a lot of VM work on it (mostly x86 Linux, but some Windows) which I wouldn’t be able to do on AS (at least yet). That might change next year though. Also it is extremely overkill for them (i9, 40GB RAM etc).

You buying the Core i9 tells me you want a no compromise experience due to work.

I get that as I also got a Core i7 when the your chip was not available on the iMac yet.

But given that M1 Macbook can outperform your iMac it might be a cost saving to just buy the base model at $1800? I'm doing that come the redesign.

By 2022 I expect almost all apps to have Universal 2 binaries. Would not be surprised if Microsoft will offer Windows for ARM as a download.

Windows used to be offered on other chips including IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha; support for PowerPC, Itanium, x64, and ARM.

 

[azentropy]

You buying the Core i9 tells me you want a no compromise experience due to work.

I get that as I also got a Core i7 when the your chip was not available on the iMac yet.

But given that M1 Macbook can outperform your iMac it might be a cost saving to just buy the base model at $1800? I'm doing that come the redesign.

By 2022 I expect almost all apps to have Universal 2 binaries. Would not be surprised if Microsoft will offer Windows for ARM as a download.

Windows used to be offered on other chips including IA-32, MIPS, and DEC Alpha; support for PowerPC, Itanium, x64, and ARM.

For many reasons I require x86 Linux and the ARM variant would not work for my use cases.

 

[Serban55]

If the small imacs goes from 21.5" to 24"...i expect the bigger 5k imac to go 30"
And keeps the Xdr display as the 32" 6k

 

[Hexley]

For many reasons I require x86 Linux and the ARM variant would not work for my use cases.

Then keep the Core i9? Buy the AS iMac when Linux comes for the Mac.

If ever Apple allows it I expect it by June 2021. But i'm not as sure about as I am about the Mac Pro being announced at WWDC 2021.

 

[dogslobber]

17"

 

[Hexley]

17"

go wild... 69”