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The iMac and Mac Pro has user upgradeable RAM. https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/
On the 27" iMac, the memory upgrades are able to be done easily by the user. The 21" Models require taking it to an Apple Store to do so. I believe the iMac Pro also needs to be taken apart in order to upgrade the RAM.
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Are you sure the newer iMacs have soldered on storage? I was under the impression they use m.2 SSDs.
They don't. I wouldn't call it user replaceable, since it's difficult, but no soldering required.[0] Many vendors (including Apple premium resellers) offer replacing the drives for whatever you like. [0] iFixIt https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+27-Inch+EMC+2546+Bla...
The one thing I keep missing on my 5k iMac is some form of video-in. Would be great if I could connect my MB Pro to it and use the iMac as a display. Perhaps even in a window and all mouse and keyboard events to the window get passed to the connected MacBook.
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27" iMacs have typically featured 4 memory slots in an easily accessible panel on the back: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1
And https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ (click 27-inch) says > four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible
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It will almost certainly be a low end macbook. In fact, there's a non-pro 'macbook'[0] that already exists which would be perfect, it was discontinued a year ago, but used ultra-low power CPUs. In fact when they were talking about them (prior to release) they thought they would have ARM CPU's back then. They are fanless and have a 5W thermal envelope, which fits in with the current A12X too. The major criticisms of t…
the 12" macbook is my favorite laptop of all time. Mine is the 2016 version and it's starting to feel dated and I'm hoping that they rerelease this on the new silicon first. I'll be smashing the buy button the day it's out.
Butterfly keyboard still works flawlessly and even feels different from the butterfly on my work 2017 MB Pro which has worn out and misses keys.
But the 12” form factor gets too hot and CPU is weak even for browsing with just 20 tabs. But I’ve also been developing on it just fine.
And to me, it’s probably the most beautiful physical Apple product in past decade or so.
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the 12" macbook is my favorite laptop of all time. Mine is the 2016 version and it's starting to feel dated and I'm hoping that they rerelease this on the new silicon first. I'll be smashing the buy button the day it's out.
what were the thermals like?
Though it never gets “too hot”, it does slow down perceptibly. Eg, a single YouTube or Netflix tab.
Well they can quite frankly fuck off with that one. The 32gb additional memory option costs 4x the price of the entire 32gb of ram in my desktop. It costs independently 60% of the cost of my desktop pc base unit just for the upgrade. The bottom end unit features 256gb SSD (probably soldered) and the next tier up wants +£200 to go from 512 to 1TiB. My entire 1TB Samsung evo plus nvme cost £165. The 5k display isn’t wo…
Maybe just put Apple out of your mind and don't get so angry about it. They're clearly not trying to compete for your business / segment of the market.
I still feel good about iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch at this moment. However, everything else hardware wise feels like a disaster to me. I mean where is the home pod mini? Homekit will never be taken seriously or as useful as Google Home and Alexa, until Apple finally releases smaller, less expensive smart speakers. "Hey Siri" just doesn't work well on current Apple devices.
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And yet with the Raspberry Pi being so popular and being on the market for so long, there are still a lot of packages that don’t support ARM. It’s trivially easy to compile your iOS app for 64-bit as well, but like I mentioned... that transition left a lot of dead apps in its wake.
> It’s trivially easy to compile your iOS app for 64-bit as well, but like I mentioned... that transition left a lot of dead apps in its wake. Most of those "dead" apps were not under active development and had no income flow. Making a "trivial" change to an inactive project means rebuilding software which you have shelved for some time. If you are actively developing software, adding Intel support to a build is pret…
I can't believe they left the big fat bezel unchanged. It makes the machine look really outdated.