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The iMac competes via its 5K display and having macOS in general. Remember that Apple’s comparable offerings for this tier display were priced at $1299, in the

The iMac competes via its 5K display and having macOS in general. Remember that Apple’s comparable offerings for this tier display were priced at $1299, in the same price range as many 5K displays. The $1800 price point isn’t hard to grasp once you consider the display. EDIT: I previously compared to / referenced possibly sub-$1000 5K monitors, but it seems the ones I was looking at in that range were actually 4K.

localhost 6y ago
It’s like buying a 5k display and getting a subsidized computer. There’s ~1 5k monitor on the market today (LG)? I wonder how expandable this is? Buy the bottom end machine with the CPU you want and upgrade SSD and RAM? I would imagine SSD is upgradeable but RAM soldered onto the mobo?
- pvarangot 6y ago
  On Apple laptops "SSDs" are also soldered PCIe flash memory chips or something like that, so maybe on this very thin desktop computer they will also be doing that.
- bluedino 6y ago
  27" iMacs have typically featured 4 memory slots in an easily accessible panel on the back: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1
  - abrowne 6y ago
    And https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ (click 27-inch) says > four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible
    - localhost 6y ago
      Thanks. Hopefully the SSD is accessible too. I have a ~2010 iMac 27" and I had to pull of the front glass of the monitor and disassemble half the computer to replace the HDD with an SSD. That was a gigantic PITA.
      - abrowne 6y ago
        I think the SSDs on all the T2 computers are built-in to the mobo — the T2 is the disk controller — so not even a removable card on the back side like the iMacs models up to now.
caycep 6y ago
and it's interesting, hard to find a 5k "retina"; was looking at this, but other than the hard to find (these days) LG model, everything from the usual suspects (dell, etc) gives you some gigantic screen at a lesser DPI...

localhost 6y ago

It’s like buying a 5k display and getting a subsidized computer. There’s ~1 5k monitor on the market today (LG)? I wonder how expandable this is? Buy the bottom end machine with the CPU you want and upgrade SSD and RAM? I would imagine SSD is upgradeable but RAM soldered onto the mobo?

pvarangot 6y ago
On Apple laptops "SSDs" are also soldered PCIe flash memory chips or something like that, so maybe on this very thin desktop computer they will also be doing that.
bluedino 6y ago
27" iMacs have typically featured 4 memory slots in an easily accessible panel on the back: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191#install1
- abrowne 6y ago
  And https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ (click 27-inch) says > four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible
  - localhost 6y ago
    Thanks. Hopefully the SSD is accessible too. I have a ~2010 iMac 27" and I had to pull of the front glass of the monitor and disassemble half the computer to replace the HDD with an SSD. That was a gigantic PITA.
    - abrowne 6y ago
      I think the SSDs on all the T2 computers are built-in to the mobo — the T2 is the disk controller — so not even a removable card on the back side like the iMacs models up to now.

caycep 6y ago

and it's interesting, hard to find a 5k "retina"; was looking at this, but other than the hard to find (these days) LG model, everything from the usual suspects (dell, etc) gives you some gigantic screen at a lesser DPI...