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Re: New iMac with M4

#111
Apple makes some dubious claims:

> Gamers can enjoy incredibly smooth gameplay, with up to 2x higher frame rates5 than on iMac with M1.

What games do run on the Mac? Certainly, most AAA titles do not.

>Compared to the most popular 24-inch all-in-one PC with the latest Intel Core 7 processor, the new iMac is up to 4.5x faster.

You can build PCs there are more powerful than that Mac, cheaper. And you can easily repair them.

Re: New iMac with M4

#112

Do they sell matching monitors to go with these all in one style iMac's? I'm not really an Apple person, but I can't imagine having a single monitor in this day and age and any other color would look silly next to a weird pastel pink device.

I don't use an iMac, but I do use a single display with a similar resolution, and I personally much prefer it to a multi-monitor setup

Re: New iMac with M4

#113

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

Have you considered that your way of using the machine is based around the limitations, hence you don't recognize them?

Whenever switching company I went from a 64 gb ram computer to a 16 gb ram. Yes, it worked, but only because I had to adapt to it. But one might not see it if one's never tried.

Re: New iMac with M4

#114

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.

I'm surprised Apple didn't co-opt charging mousepad tech, like what Logitech uses:

https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/innovation/powerplay.html

Re: New iMac with M4

#115

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.

> That's a ridiculously low minimum and only just barely adequate. What are you doing? I'm still doing web development with Chrome, JetBrains, and Docker on a 16GB M1 Pro and it isn't a problem. For the average Chrome-using citizen, 16GB should be fine.

There are Chromebooks currently shipping with 4GB of RAM. People don't understand how low the bar is for normies.

Re: New iMac with M4

#116

16GB base RAM, they finally did it. They also did move the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse to USB-C.

> 16GB base RAM, they finally did it.

I've paid €200 for 128GB RAM in my PC. How much does Apple charge for 128GB of memory?

Re: New iMac with M4

#118

Do they sell matching monitors to go with these all in one style iMac's? I'm not really an Apple person, but I can't imagine having a single monitor in this day and age and any other color would look silly next to a weird pastel pink device.

No. If you’re that kind of power user, the iMac isn’t for you. Get a Mac mini or studio.

Re: New iMac with M4

#119

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

I might get away with 48GB (don't know, I have 64 now on my work machine) but I had a lot of swap usage when I was running on 32GB. Some of us do need a lot of ram.

Re: New iMac with M4

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Question. Is this "Apple Intelligence" phoning home all the time?

It's worse: Any file you open results in phoning home, Intelligence or not, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959

I believe just executable files, right? (Still terrible of course.)
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