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27-inch iMac gets a major update

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Re: 27-inch iMac gets a major update

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Post by musicale »

I can see why they didn't roll this out at WWDC!

Great machine and no Apple Silicon as yet (which may be a huge advantage if you still need to run Boot Camp or x86 VMs.)

I'm also excited about the nano-texture display. I've learned to live with reflective displays because I'm addicted to their high contrast and deep blacks, but nano-texture sounds like the best of both worlds.

Nice that they upgraded the anemic FaceTime camera and pulled the plug on the low-speed hard disk (even if it was configured as a fusion drive.)

Apple has generally had decent mics and speakers as well, so it's exciting that they are trying to make them even better. Anyone who has suffered through horrible zoom audio will appreciate the benefits of good mics (and not using zoom, which seems to make bad audio even worse.)

Re: 27-inch iMac gets a major update

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Post by gumby »

dijit wrote: post #9
burlesona wrote: post #3

Solid spec bump. Interesting how much emphasis they put on the camera, speakers, and mic; makes total sense in the age of Zoom. I’d also speculate this means iMac won’t be the first computer getting Apple Silicon. I wonder if it will be the last? What’s the consensus guess now? Perhaps a new MacBook Air with good performance but the real “breakthrough” is > 12 hours battery life?

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…

I loved my macbook (failed to survive a rainstorm, alas) and wrote a ton of code on that supposedly non-pro machine while traveling all over the world. I hope it does reappear as an apple silicon machine.

However I suspect that if they can they’ll start with a “pro” machine that beats Intel specs as their first out of the gate, to demonstrate that it’s not a compromise option.

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Post by chrstphrknwtn »

munificent wrote: post #526
_ph_ wrote: post #341

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.

This one kills me. With COVID, I'm now stuck working from home. I literally spend all day staring at my work Macbook Pro's small screen with a glorious but unused iMac screen sitting five inches behind it.

Why don't you work on your iMac?

Re: 27-inch iMac gets a major update

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Post by cowsandmilk »

chrstphrknwtn wrote: post #536
munificent wrote: post #526

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one kills me. With COVID, I'm now stuck working from home. I literally spend all day staring at my work Macbook Pro's small screen with a glorious but unused iMac screen sitting five inches behind it.

Why don't you work on your iMac?

Many people are only able to work on machines provisioned by their companies. Even if you could get your home iMac provisioned during Covid, you may be wiping out all your personal data and now you are dedicating a machine you paid for to your company.

Re: 27-inch iMac gets a major update

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Post by [deleted] »

jyrkesh wrote: post #267
ddavis wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Still only 8GB RAM though, a bit of a bummer.

Yeah, and upgrading to even 32 GBs is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS. I get that it has to be soldered on or whatever, but I'm looking at faster RAM on Newegg right now, in brand names, single module DDR4, for ~115. I really wanna buy Apple stuff, but stuff like this continually keeps me away when I finally get to the Buy page.

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