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Finally they ditch spinning media on the base models. Also notable, the rumored iPad-like style changes are conspicuously absent, these look pretty much identi
by ogre_codes 6y ago
Finally they ditch spinning media on the base models.
Also notable, the rumored iPad-like style changes are conspicuously absent, these look pretty much identical to the older iMacs.
Otherwise this looks like a decent bump all around. Notably, the iMac Pro also got some love (though not too much it seems?)
- PascLeRasc 6y agoMassive upgrade for people working at companies whose IT refuses to buy anything but the cheapest model.
- ddavis 6y agoStill only 8GB RAM though, a bit of a bummer.
- TwoNineA 6y agoI thought iMacs have an easy way to upgrade the RAM no?
- m0xte 6y agoDepends which model. Some require taking the screen off, which unlike earlier models is taped on and some have soldered in RAM. Until someone has seen a hole in the back or has torn one down you just don’t know. A friend of mine upgraded his 21 inch one out of the box because Apple RAM pricing and turn around is terrible. However he damaged the screen ribbon cable at the same time. Happens a lot.
- george_perez 6y agoOnly the 27-inch iMac has user-upgradable RAM.
- jyrkesh 6y agoYeah, 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.
- simonh 6y agoThe 27” models have user-accessible DIMM slots in a compartment on the back, so you’re ok to get that RAM from Newegg or Crucial. That’s what I will be doing.
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- gowld 6y agoSoldering on is cheaper than not. It costs more because of the vendor lock-in value-based pricing. But that doesn't apply to the 27" Mac which has non-soldered slots.
- scarface74 6y agoIt’s crazy. Even though my work laptop (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/dell-latitude-e6500-review/ https://www.cnet.com/reviews/dell-latitude-e6500-review/) was considered high end in 2010. My company ordered it for me because of some Windows CE development I was doing. It had 8 GB RAM. They gave me the laptop when the company went out of business. It was my Plex server until last year.
- dan1234 6y agoYou can upgrade the RAM in the 27” yourself. There’s a door on the back, which gives acces to 4 SODIMM slots.
- ogre_codes 6y ago> Massive upgrade for people working at companies whose IT refuses to buy anything but the cheapest model. In my experience, the companies who always buy the cheapest model tend to avoid Macs entirely. The big place I see the base iMac popping up is at schools.
- rejectfinite 6y agoIT does not set the budget for users computers. Managers do. If it where up to IT everyone would have beefy computers as the most frustrating calls are "My computer is slow."
- saos 6y agoI reckon the redesign will come when they push new lines with ARM
- ogre_codes 6y agoYup. The rumor that they would redesign for Intel didn't make a ton of sense. The MacBook Pro design had a major pain point so they needed to push an update for their "final" Intel MBP. The iMac design is a touch dated, but has no significant flaws (at least none which Apple intends to fix).
- minimaxir 6y agoWhere do you see the updates for the iMac Pro?
- ogre_codes 6y ago2nd paragraph from the bottom of the release: > iMac Pro now comes standard with a 10-core Intel Xeon processor. Designed for pro users who require workstation-class performance, iMac Pro features Xeon processors up to 18 cores, graphics performance up to 22 teraflops, up to 256GB quad-channel ECC memory, and a brilliant 27-inch Retina 5K display. I think just a bump in the base CPU and maybe the graphics? There is a reason it's buried deep in the PR.
- auggierose 6y agonot really an update, but the base model has now 10 cores instead of just 8.
- cactus2093 6y agoThe iMac Pro is starting to seem pretty redundant even with this slight spec boost. If you upgrade the new 27" iMac to the same specs, you can get a faster machine than the base model $4999 iMac pro for $900 less - it's a faster clock speed 10-core processor, better performing GPU with Radeon 5700 XT 16GB (as opposed to Vega 64 8GB), and same 32GB RAM and 10Gb ethernet and 1TB SSD for that price. The iMac pro has even further upgrade options that the iMac doesn't, but still, I wouldn't expect a $5k non-upgradeable pro machine like that to be underspecced. It'll also be interesting to see some teardowns of the new iMac and compare actual benchmarks between these machines, the iMac Pro might still have better thermals that lets the cpu/gpu perform better in the real world.
- ogre_codes 6y agoParticularly when you consider they didn't even add the anti-glare display upgrade to the iMac Pro. It seems likely the iMac Pro will go its entire life with only this one small processor bump before it's retired.
- gowld 6y agoThey probably decided having a iMac Pro was pointless when it could just be the upgraded iMac. It made sense for a little while before the iMac screens were upgraded to 5k.
- woobar 6y ago5K iMac was introduced in 2014, several years before iMac Pro. I think the point of iMac Pro was to fill the gap while the new Mac Pro was in development.
- scarface74 6y agoActually, the iMac Pro was going to be the only “Pro” Mac until they had a change of heart.
- dav43 6y agoYet they are still pushing 8gb of RAM as stock unit - which was OK in maybe 2016. It’s offensive