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New iMac with Vesa Mount
- imwally 5y agoHasn't Apple always offered a VESA mount version of the iMac?
- galago 5y agoI have an older iMac with a 3rd party VESA adapter, which holds the iMac through a circular hole in the back of the original stand. I actually prefer this because the foot of the iMac functions as a little shelf below. I usually set my phone or occasionally an external drive on it. The adapter has the same metal finish so it looks like it could have been an original part.
- tyingq 5y agoWould it have been difficult to just have one model with VESA screw holes and a removable stand? Or just not within Apple's aesthetic preferences?
- plorkyeran 5y agoThis model in particular has a big focus on the back of it looking good, and vesa mounts are pretty ugly.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoWith the older models there was actually a way to unclip the base and replace it with a vesa adapter (purchased separately). When they came out with the bulging design with the thin edges they dropped this in favour of a CTO option. So it's just a continuation of established practice.
- hinkley 5y agoIt’s a perfectly flat back. Why couldn’t it be four screw holes and nothing else?
- theshrike79 5y agoBecause this is a computer that'll be used as a POS terminal or some place where the first thing you see is the back of the computer. This is why aesthetics matter, this is why they released multiple colors.
- hinkley 5y agoMost of the POS terminals I see are mounted. Presumably that would be the first thing you cover.
- franciscop 5y agoI feel like here, the same as with the new Macbook Air (https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/), the 2-3 column website has no place anymore. The 2 right models here are the same except for the SSD size, which you can change anyway in the next step. The CPU can be made easily a choice as well in the tech spec choosing page. It made sense with different-size screen for example, or when the matrix of incompatible choices could be too complex (e.g. large screen cannot have the smallest SSD), but at this point it feels like things would become a lot better if instead you just had a single product page and picking the specs here.
- King-Aaron 5y agoWait, iMacs come in different colours now? That's.... tacky
- gattilorenz 5y agoIs this some kind of a joke? https://cdn-5ee247e4c1ac18136071c525.closte.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/apple_ads.jpg https://cdn-5ee247e4c1ac18136071c525.closte.com/wp-content/u...
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoMaybe you weren't around for the first (bondi), second (rainbow), and third (flower) generations of iMacs? This is heritage.
- hinkley 5y agoHonestly a little surprised they’ve been aluminum color so long. Are these painted or anodized? Those are not anodization colors I’m familiar with, which could in theory be part of why it took a while.
- King-Aaron 5y agoMy first mac was a blue first generation iMac. It doesn't mean that I don't think a colour anodized, modern flatscreen isn't tacky.
- Yaggo 5y agoM1 is superb, but I just bought a second-hand iMac 27” from 2017. 5k display, max 64 GB of ram, 512 GB SSD, etc. Great value for money! Basically you get a good computer with the price of 5k display.