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Why does this still have the ridiculous iMac chin? Surely they can fit everything behind the screen at this point.
It's also a great place to tack post-it notes.
16GB base RAM, they finally did it. They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.
Now if only they could figure out how to allow charging the Magic Mouse while it’s being used. I guess that technology is still years away.
16GB base RAM, they finally did it. They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.
Now if only they could figure out how to allow charging the Magic Mouse while it’s being used. I guess that technology is still years away.
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They literally can't. They moved the headphone jack from the back to the side because it was too long. Now you could argue if it needs to be that thin but for the current configuration, there's nothing you can cram behind the screen.
For something that's literally designed to sit on a desk, yes... it's ridiculous to make it thinner in a dimension you never see vs one that you see all the time.
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Presumably, their career economists found that this "weird" pricing scheme is actually optimal—that selling tiny RAM upgrades for $200 or $400 is empirically, measurably an effective way to sort their consumers by purchasing power, and optimally drain their wallets. It goes by many names, the "microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same…
> optimally drain their wallets I mean, that's basically it. The difference between part costs of 8GB/16GB/32GB RAM chips is nearly a rounding error, and they're probably eating a bunch more costs stocking and adding assembly for different RAM SKUs.
If 32GB is the max, why not just make that the one and only model and get rid of this weird segmentation. That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate. 8GB was practically criminal. Or -- and I know this is crazy -- slottable RAM on a device that is designed for things other than portability. Wild, I know.
If 32GB is the max, why not just make that the one and only model and get rid of this weird segmentation. That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate. 8GB was practically criminal. Or -- and I know this is crazy -- slottable RAM on a device that is designed for things other than portability. Wild, I know.
I’ve never felt memory limited on my 16gb macbook pro, on which I code, run rust-analyzer (major memory hog), video edit, etc. Most people definitely don’t need 32GB
16GB base RAM, they finally did it. They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.
> They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C. Only for the bundled peripherals, it seems. The Apple Store now only lists the full-size Lightning keyboard without Touch ID in white, which is even worse than before when you could get various permutations of tenkeyless, Touch ID, and black.
Why does this still have the ridiculous iMac chin? Surely they can fit everything behind the screen at this point.
They literally can't. They moved the headphone jack from the back to the side because it was too long. Now you could argue if it needs to be that thin but for the current configuration, there's nothing you can cram behind the screen.
They can't put the compute in the back of the display itself, while maintaining the same thickness like an iPad (which has the same CPU), because the room behind the displays is dominated by the speaker system, allowing the iMac to have surprisingly good audio quality despite being so thin.
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iMac+M1+24-Inch+Teardown/142...