To introduce an iMac in 2021 with almost half of the amount of storage of an entry level iMac TWELVE years older is scandalous. I'd wager a 500GB SSD costs no more now than a 500GB spindle hard drive did in 2009.
I'm all for Apple making money on upgrades btw, but their products shouldn't offer less than they did over a decade ago, purely to encourage upgrading - especially when there's no way for the user to address this in future, which only shortens the lifespan of the product considerably.
Apple should be taken to task for this unnecessary practice which is unethical and contributes to the disposable culture that is a currently causing such a problem.
They've been perniciously slimming down storage on Macs for last 5 or 6 years - particularly on laptops, but there's no excuse for doing that on a desktop.
The Mac OS itself takes about 35GB and you'll lose 10GB or so just for formatting the SSD, so basically from starting you'll have just 200GB of storage on the baseline iMac for additional apps and files.
Apple should be absolutely shamed for this - 8GB RAM and 256GB storage...on a desktop computer in 2021.
The media's silence on this is deafening.
For the M1 Mac Mini, Apple charge £200 to upgrade the storage from 256Gb to 500GB or £400 to upgrade to 1TB.
Likewise upgrading RAM to 16GB is another £200.
Assuming it's the same for the iMac, that'd make an 'entry level' iMac with a modest 16GB RAM and 1TB storage £1849.00. Let's not forget no SD slot, no ethernet and just 2 USB ports too, so it actually has less ports than a 2009 iMac too - they are taking the piss.
Apple are always going on about how their headquarters are carbon neutral and uses 100% green energy, yet simultaneously make their products almost unrepairable and effectively build in obsolescence by shipping them with these pitiful amounts of (unexpandable) RAM and thread bare storage space.
So much for their 'green' credentials then!
It's poor practice at best, completely unethical at worst IMO.
Deserves to fail and should be derided and avoided, but will probably be a huge success.
For all the Apple media outlets not chastising Apple for their pitiful storage and obscene upgrade costs, hang your heads in shame - you are culpable by your silence.
