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What to expect from iMac 2012 - Discussion
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Damn right, I've got about 10gb spare out of 2.5tb, I'm hopping for an SSD, don't care on size as long as it holds the OS and maybe a few key apps, and a large HDD, 2tb would be nice. Either way ill be getting an extra 2tb external to sit with my current one (mounted under the desk out of sight) so I hopefully have 6tb to keep me going for a while.
Mac newbie here... if you have the SSD for system drive and don't want to (or can't) install ALL apps to it, can you actually install apps on the secondary drive? Is it just a matter of dragging the app to a different folder on different drive, or does it get more involved than that?
Thank you for reminding me! One of my family members is a student and is eligible for the discount
I presume you just need to show your student id when purchasing?
Excellent question. I don't know the answer, but the question itself is best poised with a new thread.
Ha ha, this is what I mean, I just can't wait to see what options we have for the HD/SSD. I just can't wait in general.Damn right, I've got about 10gb spare out of 2.5tb, I'm hopping for an SSD, don't care on size as long as it holds the OS and maybe a few key apps, and a large HDD, 2tb would be nice. Either way ill be getting an extra 2tb external to sit with my current one (mounted under the desk out of sight
Om nom.
That's right mate. However, it is not how I chose to do it. I will drive onto my university campus (only 10 mins away) and use the wifi. This gives me access to the Higher Education store. The discount is immediately applied and the last Mac I bought from the HE store my Uni paid for free Apple car, though this varies from Uni to Uni.Thank you for reminding me! One of my family members is a student and is eligible for the discount
I presume you just need to show your student id when purchasing?
I don't see any reason why that shouldn't work, I run my adobe programs from a separate partition on the HDD which is theoretically the same.
The only thing you'd need to worry about is data transfer rates between the two, if it's an inbuilt dual storage system on these "new" units then I'm sure that has been taken into consideration, if you're thinking about doing it via an OptiBay, check reviews before you make your purchase as some of the alternatives (not even the cheaper ones) have had quite bad transfer rates.
There was a thread in one of the other forums about it, if I come across it again I'll link you to it!
Shouldn't be a problem. I had to move World of Warcraft off my main drive to an external firewire 400. Worked just fine.
Ha ha, this is what I mean, I just can't wait to see what options we have for the HD/SSD. I just can't wait in general.
Om nom.
That's right mate. However, it is not how I chose to do it. I will drive onto my university campus (only 10 mins away) and use the wifi. This gives me access to the Higher Education store. The discount is immediately applied and the last Mac I bought from the HE store my Uni paid for free Apple car, though this varies from Uni to Uni.
Excellent! I can use the money I save to buy the missus a surprise present to get on her good side
would be kinda funny, now that everyone expects insane updates, all we see is a 17" inch macbook pro update again
Somebody didn't find it funny and downvoted you, I laughed, and fixed it.
would be kinda funny, now that everyone expects insane updates, all we see is a 17" inch macbook pro update again
Well... this thread is about the iMac, pretty sure most of us are waiting for that instead of the MB Pro
would be kinda funny, now that everyone expects insane updates, all we see is a 17" inch macbook pro update again
Ha.
My expectations are still pretty low. If Apple upgrades the 21" CTO with a 3.1 Ghz Ivy Bridge i7, USB 3.0, a video card in the neighbourhood of the 6970m and a GB of VRAM, plus a better price on the SSD option, I'll be very happy.
If I can get a tricked-out BTO i7 27" with a 2G 7970m and an added SSD for less than $3000 CDN after taxes, I'll be THRILLED.
Anything else is just gravy.
Holy cow the entry 27" are starting there and upward?
Just because that's how the currency converts doesn't mean that's the price Apple will use.
Holy cow the entry 27" are starting there and upward?
No, most likely $1799 USD before tax
I'd even go far as saying £999 but comes with small SSD for the OS Period! Don't particularly care about Retina. Would on the other hand like 1T HDD as standard
Apple sets their price pretty consistently across countries,
If the entry 27" is AU$1999 with 10% tax added"
AU $1999 / 1.10 = AU $1817.27 = US $1801.99 before tax
so i'd say around $1799
Just for fun:
Current entry 27" is AUD$1949.
Less 10% is $1771.82.
US price is USD$1699.
So why have there not been specs about the imac coming out ?
Whether fake or not, Some said because you can smuggle notebook info more easily but that point is in null now because Mac Pro info came today
Whether fake or not, Some said because you can smuggle notebook info more easily but that point is in null now because Mac Pro info came today
My point is, price difference between countries is within $50 to $100 USD, instead of what others calculated to be $2300... which is 500 off of what I calculated
You cant really compare aussie prices to that of the rest of the world.
We have an extra tax, its call, charge the aussies a little more than everyone else cause they are all convicts tax.
For a long time Aussie have been paying more than the US and rest of the world for our imported stuff.
But then again we do live in a kick ass country.
We have an extra tax, its call, charge the aussies a little more than everyone else cause they are all convicts tax.
For a long time Aussie have been paying more than the US and rest of the world for our imported stuff.
But then again we do live in a kick ass country.
You cant really compare aussie prices to that of the rest of the world.
We have an extra tax, its call, charge the aussies a little more than everyone else cause they are all convicts tax.
For a long time Aussie have been paying more than the US and rest of the world for our imported stuff.
But then again we do live in a kick ass country.
To be fair, your salary average is much higher too! I've been looking at moving over there and the salary increase even after the higher cost of living and exchange rate/additional taxing is phenomenal!
SSD setup
The way X64 motherboards worked, and the way Ivy Bridge therefor works, is that an SSD is coupled to a second Hard Drive, but they appear as just the one drive. The SSD works like a cache for popular activity. So if you use photoshop a lot, then it will be move to the SSD, and hence will load quicker. The OS will also be on the SSD. I am not sure though, but I think that all the programs are also on the HD.
Its an Intel idea and very cool, as it greatly lowers the work a HD does, and an SSD being solid state is almost fault tolerant. it isn't, but they are dam reliable compared to HDs.
So ... I would be amazed if there was a single SSD only machine. I think logically, it will be a small SSD, and a hard drive, and they will appear as one single drive on the desktop. Just as Intel intended.
As far as the top iMac goes, I hope its an i7 ... and that there isn't another upgrade to a faster processor. With the current machines, you have to upgrade from i5 to i7, which costs a bit extra. the i7 is good for video and graphics.
The way X64 motherboards worked, and the way Ivy Bridge therefor works, is that an SSD is coupled to a second Hard Drive, but they appear as just the one drive. The SSD works like a cache for popular activity. So if you use photoshop a lot, then it will be move to the SSD, and hence will load quicker. The OS will also be on the SSD. I am not sure though, but I think that all the programs are also on the HD.
Its an Intel idea and very cool, as it greatly lowers the work a HD does, and an SSD being solid state is almost fault tolerant. it isn't, but they are dam reliable compared to HDs.
So ... I would be amazed if there was a single SSD only machine. I think logically, it will be a small SSD, and a hard drive, and they will appear as one single drive on the desktop. Just as Intel intended.
As far as the top iMac goes, I hope its an i7 ... and that there isn't another upgrade to a faster processor. With the current machines, you have to upgrade from i5 to i7, which costs a bit extra. the i7 is good for video and graphics.
That's the way my hybrid HDD works and it's been troublesome to say the least when it comes to retaining priority for popular/cached software. It's still been a great HDD overall, but that feature of it has been pointless IMO as my load / runtimes varied far more than they ever did on a 5400 HDD I ran previous.
Here's hoping that technology has advanced to a more useable level or that like some hybrid systems, you can actually manage what the SSD retains rather than let it throw a crabline out and fish out an old boot.