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A $3k desktop for which you need to buy an external drive. At some point slavishness to the Apple brand must have a breaking point. Not wanting to start a fan
by danielmg 8y ago
A $3k desktop for which you need to buy an external drive. At some point slavishness to the Apple brand must have a breaking point.
Not wanting to start a fanboy war but I am a big believer in the right tool for the right job at the right price. For $3k I could build a monster PC with a stunning screen.
- scarface74 8y agoIf you’re buying a “$3000” iMac you’re not buying one with a fusion drive....
- FractalParadigm 8y agoCanadian price for a top-end 27" Retina iMac is $3079, and has a 2TB Fusion drive standard. The 512GB SSD option is $120 more than the Fusion drive. A quarter of the storage at a premium price isn't exactly appealing to a lot of people, regardless of how much faster it may be.
- scarface74 8y agoYou know there is a way that you can configure what you want for your budget....
- resters 8y agoI maxed out the CPU and got a lot of RAM, I assumed the drive would have enough cache that I wouldn't notice the spindle aspect.
- scarface74 8y agoAnd now that you see it isn’t the case after that you couldn’t just say “my bad” and spend the < $200 for an SSD drive?
- resters 8y agoI think the SSD would have been $500 more, which I would have happily paid if I had realized how poorly the fusion drive would perform.
- scarface74 8y agoSo you would have been willing to spend $500 morethen but not spend much less and buy an external drive now?
- resters 8y agoI’m not unwilling to buy an external drive, but I’d rather have a better internal drive.