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I'm underwhelmed. - Anyone wanting a 27" or a better screen will have to wait. - Only two TB3 ports. - No improvement to the Magic Mouse, the worst periphera
by vehemenz 6y ago
I'm underwhelmed.
- Anyone wanting a 27" or a better screen will have to wait.
- Only two TB3 ports.
- No improvement to the Magic Mouse, the worst peripheral in Apple history.
- If you're going to offer three keyboards, one of them had better be a 65% or a TKL. This is bizarrely out of step with the market.
- The colors are nice, but honestly, who cares?
I guess I was expecting more of a desktop computer instead of MacBook Pro with a dedicated screen. It's hard to imagine jumping to one of these until the graphics performance is figured out.
- mlindner 6y ago> - Only two TB3 ports. That's a limitation of the M1 silicon itself from my understanding. It doesn't have enough PCI express channels. It's been one of the few commonalities on all the M1 macs. This new iMac I think is the last computer we'll see using it until the release of a higher power chip for the Mac Pro, Macbook Pro (insert larger size here), and maybe some kind of "iMac Pro".
- vehemenz 6y agoYes, but the smaller M1 devices have been out for a while ago, and the iMac is the de facto Apple workstation. I don't think it's too unreasonable to expect some iterative improvement 5 months later. It seems like a half-baked release and a downgrade in some respects from an iMac 27". Maybe that is intentional though?
- plorkyeran 6y agoThis seems to be positioned as a replacement for the 21.5" iMac, and the 27" iMac replacement is yet to come. During the announcement they only ever compared it to the 21.5" model, and it's pretty much a strict upgrade compared to that.
- turtlebits 6y agoI don't believe the iMac is the de facto Apple workstation. I would bet the Macbook Pros sell an order of magnitude more.