What to Expect From the 'Scary Fast' October 30 Apple Event

[Zelda Chestnut]

Oh yeahhhh this could be. It’s just over a year out from release now.

I look forward to selling my current one on eBay and jumping ship to whatever the new one offers.

Midnight coating anyone?
sole new offering, Ethernet port removed

Well, I guess not! Lol. Oh well.

 

[JimmyG]

And there we have it, a M3rry Holiday to all our winners! Ha!

 

[golfgirlgolf]

This was disappointing. It may well be that the 27" iMac is gone forever. 24" is too tiny for any professional use and (for me) to equal my 64GB/2TB (last gen Intel) iMac configuration for a replacement - the only option is the Mac $tudio. (unless I don't really need 64GB - and only a small internal SSD to keep MacOS on - and use external SSDs as work space and more externals as redundant archival space.

I'd consider a 24" iMac with an extra 27" monitor if it was 64GB/2TB - but the memory maxes out at 24MB. How strange!!!!

 

[Realityck]

This was disappointing. It may well be that the 27" iMac is gone forever. 24" is too tiny for any professional use and (for me) to equal my 64GB/2TB (last gen Intel) iMac configuration for a replacement - the only option is the Mac $tudio. (unless I don't really need 64GB - and only a small internal SSD to keep MacOS on - and use external SSDs as work space and more externals as redundant archival space.

I'd consider a 24" iMac with an extra 27" monitor if it was 64GB/2TB - but the memory maxes out at 24MB. How strange!!!!

Looking at one use example people were using Final Cut Pro for authoring multi tracks of video on a 24” M1 iMac and found 16 GB supported it for about 30 mins worth before running out of memory so it was felt that the minimum to deal with that was use a M1 Max which supported 32 GB, had a max of 64 GB. Now the unified memory max for M3 = 24 GB, M3 Pro = 36 GB, M3 Max = 128 GB. So you could readily use a 14” or 16” MBP with extra 27’ 5K display, rather then a display less MAC Studio if you want. The memory bandwith is way faster the that last Intel iMac. It’s like night and day now with M3 Pro/ Max.