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All-new iMac features the M1 chip

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Post by aaomidi »

gregoriol wrote: post #131
aaomidi wrote: post #89

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Because the less pixelated it looks the more natural a conversation flows? Are you asking why is it important to have a good camera for online video conferencing? Look at all the guides that teach people how to use DSLRs as their webcams.

If you are a professional video maker, you'll anyway have something better than the internal mic and camera. Not just for quality but also for position and practicality of moving it. We are talking here about the average person's use-case

Sure and the average person can benefit from a higher resolution camera.

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Post by jorvi »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #133
JohnWhigham wrote: post #113

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Which makes you wonder: why the hell did they remove it from the MBP...only to re-introduce it to another product 3 years later? Do different product teams just not talk to each other at Apple?

Jony Ive is no longer working at Apple and he was the God-King of industrial design. I suspect the MagSafe charger disappeared because of his efforts to make USB-C the one cable to rule them all. But after all the trouble with dongles and the butterfly keyboards I suspect more sensible heads have taken over and we can have these nice things again.

I don't understand why, with Apple's design chops you'd say they would be able to make a USB-C Magsafe hybrid.

Hell, I can fantasize about one right now: make a specialized Apple USB-C charger cable with a plug a teensy bit smaller than standard USB-C, then magnetize the encasing of the plug. In addition, the furthest left and right side USB-C ports on the MacBook should be magnetic where this encasing would touch the port. This would make it so that the plug itself is loose in the socket and is purely held in place by the magnetism.

Of course this means that particular cable is only suitable for use in MacBooks as it would slip out of regular USB-C sockets. It should have a clear Magsafe symbol because of that.

In a further iteration, that kind of magsafe-C port could even be added to iPhones and iPads.

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Post by rrrrrrrrrrrryan »

mort96 wrote: post #235
rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #193

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I don't think "most" mice and keyboards are USB-A: bluetooth peripherals eclipsed wired peripherals ages ago. Yes, most of the decent new ones charge via USB-C.

So, I was curious if you are correct and the market has changed a lot, or if I'm correct and most peripherals still use USB-A. So I checked out the website of a tech reseller, sorted their keyboards by most sold, and counted the technology used. Before I stopped counting, I found 8 wireless keyboards using bluetooth, 9 wireless keyboards using a USB-A receiver, and 10 wired keyboards using a USB-A cable. It seems lik…

Yeah, it should go without saying that gamers and people who code are in a different class: hobbyists. I'm one of them, and most of the people on this site are too. We love our periphs. I have a wireless (mech) keyboard and a wireless mouse that both charge via usb-C cables, though it is something I filtered by when I was shopping for them a year or so ago in anticipation of this happening.

I think Apple (correctly) determined that these folks will tolerate whatever they put out, buy adapters to use their beloved special keyboard, etc. And for the ones who won't tolerate it: they're probably not buying Apple hardware anyway.

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Post by outworlder »

boplicity wrote: post #72
ixfo wrote: post #31

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No Ethernet port on a desktop is just insane. I can see the sense in saying "your dock is Thunderbolt and Ethernet goes on the dock" for laptops, but on a dekstop?

I don't think it's a bad choice. That way you only need one cord dangling from the device; the ethernet cord can be attached under the desk. It's actually a thoughtful feature; most people are annoyed by the usual mess of wires. This helps with that.

They could have added more ports, then.

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Post by bzzzt »

dschuetz wrote: post #50
exhilaration wrote: post #41

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The ethernet port is built into the power adapter, which is a pretty nifty idea.

Well, the thinness at least explains why. Both RJ45 and type A USB ports are huge. By that extent, they could have introduced fiber channel adapters beside the 1GBit Ethernet port.

Wrong target audience ;)

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Post by diroussel »

tachyonbeam wrote: post #219
websites2323 wrote: post #130

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I’m going to go ahead and say if you haven’t gotten onboard with USB C by now you’re behind. It’s been half a decade since the USB A port went away on Mac. I know everyone has their legacy peripherals they love but... it’s time to move on.

Well, this is supposed to be a professional desktop machine. I don't want to run my work machine off of wifi that could randomly disconnect in the middle of meetings though. I know I'm not the only one. They could have spent the 3 dollars per machine it would cost them to add an ethernet jack, but instead they're going to have you spend $20 on some adapter dongle. As for USB-A, there are tons of peripherals still in…

The Ethernet port is included. It’s just on the power adapter rather than the back of the screen.

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Post by agloeregrets »

walrus01 wrote: post #47

Can't wait to see the teardown, I wonder how much of it is glued together. Who wants to bet that despite there probably being no pressing need to do so, the SSD will be permanently soldered onto the motherboard rather than as a M.2 NVME card?

So The design isn't super clear on this but unlike prior models, the entire machine face is one piece of glass. So I imagine just the typical display tape of the past and then everything else is screwed in. And yes, it will lack the NVME SSD, same as the Mac mini. One board for SOC, RAM, and SSD.

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Post by meemo »

tzs wrote: post #234

Looks like they have moved the headphone jack from the back to the side. On the one hand, that would be better for me, because the way my desk is laid out to plug in my headphones on my iMac I have to reach under the front and jumble around blindly. Having the headphone jack on the left side would be easier. On the other hand, someone with a second monitor that prefers it on the left might find that it is in the way…

I think you can switch between sound output sources. Just click on the sound button in the menu bar.
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