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The 2021 iMac is a great family computer
- slater 5y ago"Who’s it for Well, idiots who don’t want to think about how to set up a PC, for one." wtf?
- _fzslm 5y agothat's... wow. IMHO Wired has been on a downward spiral for a while, but even tongue in cheek that's a ridiculous thing to say.
- Zababa 5y agoIsn't it precisely one of the (supposed) strength of Apple, not having to set up anything, it just works? They're just parroting what people will say against the price of this computer: > Yes the new Mac mini has M1, too, but you’re going to need all the peripherals including a display. So for a few hundred quid more you get an all-in-one home computer that is as easy to get started as an iPad. It's a way to predict the comments like "You must be stupid to buy an iMac. I personally bought a mac mini for $X, and $X is way lower than the price of that iMac, setting it up is not that hard." or something along those lines.
- ianai 5y agoJust don't call people idiots. I know way more than enough about the tech world and work within it professionally. My biggest attraction to these iMacs is I think they might just be lightweight enough to move between multiple places depending on use.
- Zababa 5y agoI agree, I think it's just a failed attempt at some humor: > The new iMacs are unashamedly aimed at people already in the Apple ecosystem. Yes, they are more expensive than other one-box PCs out there, but the iMac buyer won’t care. They’ll want it to, sigh, “just work”.
- smoldesu 5y agoIn all fairness, they never called you an idiot. You just happen to choose the same computers that idiots do, which is more of a coincidence than an insult.
- ianai 5y agoJust don't call people idiots.
- mangamadaiyan 5y agoYes, call them spades instead.
- Decade 5y agoIt’s Wired.co.uk. British humor is less reverent than what’s practiced in the US.
- interestica 5y agoalso this: > they come in lots of colours. I’ve called mine Donald. Why? Because its yellow hue is not really yellow, it's full-on bling gold. It’s like working in front of Trump Tower.
- tracer4201 5y agoI work in a Principal role at a company whose products or services many people use every day. All of my work is done on on a Mac, which you’d have to pry from my dead cold hands before I’d be willing to go back to a PC (especially Windows). I didn’t read the rest of the review after finding that sentence. Shockingly, the author is listed as an Executive Editor. I’m going on a tangent here, but these companies like Wired produce trashy content, lose readership, and then go on to blame anyone and everyone but themselves.
- moralestapia 5y agoI didn't understand this comment at first. Then went on and read the article, then reached that part ... wow.
- arid_eden 5y agoThe context for that is in the previous sentence: > [...] you get an out-of-the-box, slick and capable computer that an idiot could set up and get running in minutes. He's praising the simplicity of the setup. I smiled. That language is normal discourse in the UK.
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- prvc 5y ago>Jony Ive worked on the 2021 iMac before leaving Apple in 2019 The article specifically states that it is unclear when he worked on it. >Jony Ive was involved in the design of this new iMac, despite having left Apple back in 2019. Hardware design is a long process, so perhaps it’s not surprising that Ive’s fingerprints are all over this new desktop. But, interestingly, Apple would not confirm or deny if he worked on the 2021 iMac after he left the company – just that he had worked on it.
- jbverschoor 5y agoSounds like some national worshipping of Jony Ive by .uk afaict, the departure of Ive was good. We're finally getting back functionality over esthetics, while keeping simplicity. The word "design" should be banned.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoUSB ports still in the rear. Jony's ghost lingers....
- jbverschoor 5y agoAt least they're finally starting to segment again. The iMac is a non-pro device. In the living room, or in the office for general purpose computing. The ethernet in the powerbrick is super smart. The iMac/Mac/MacBook Pro will probably have better port configurations. Although I doubt there will be an option to "sideload" usb haha
- skohan 5y ago> The word "design" should be banned. You can only say that because Apple's design approach already won. Do you remember what computers were like pre-iMac? Technology was ugly, obtuse, and vexing to anyone who wasn't a self-described "nerd". Apple's leadership on usibility-centered design for technology is a major part of the reason we have a wide array of beautiful, pleasant to use technology products today. Yes there were some excesses due to undue focus on aesthetics over functionality, but you don't want to go back to a world where hardware and software interfaces are primarily driven by engineering concerns.
- blantonl 5y agoI would probably venture to say that the 2021 iMac is also an outstanding and very capable developer workstation for 95% of developers out there. Now, I know this will illicit dismayed responses from the other 5% who want 256GB of RAM, or a RAID-45.1375 18TB array, or some other edge cases, but I suspect we'll see this iMac show up in a lot of startup offices over the next year.
- lowercased 5y agoI don't particularly care for 256, but 32 would be useful. I don't know if that puts me in the mythical "5%" or not.
- eptcyka 5y agoI second this. Once I got 64 gigs in a desktop, life just became easier.
- smoldesu 5y agoI dunno, I think most people will still err on the side of x86. Most developers aren't deploying to ARM, so it's a pretty difficult value proposition to sell someone a computer where they can't even natively debug their program. Maybe my workflow constitutes that "five percent" you're talking about, but part of me also knows that most developers will probably be pretty disappointed with just 8 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage. Especially if you install XCode, one of the most asinine and largest programs I've ever seen.
- epmaybe 5y agoI'm not the most "organized" or "sophisticated" developer (I mainly code for fun or basic research related experiments), and I mainly do everything from my m1 MacBook Air. If I need to test something that will need more hardware, I fire up my desktop. Edit: Also, the M1 has a lot of surprising performance. I can run two 4k 30fps cameras off of it, display to a 4k monitor, and stream the video to another computer. My 2017 MBP struggled with this much.
- indigodaddy 5y agoWas this article written by a 15 year-old?
- toomuchredbull 5y agoIt looks nice but I don't understand who would pick an iMac over a MacBook Pro...
- rullopat 5y agoI think the Jony Ive departure was the best thing that happened to Apple in recent years. They finally stopped making beautiful thin furniture and started to make functional devices again.
- dundarious 5y agoThe new iMac is arguably thinner (I believe it's thinner than the max depth of the "bulb" in the old model), and is regularly described as "ultra-thin" in articles in the press. It's basically a bigger (incredibly thin) iPad Pro with a stand and macOS. I don't see it as a design departure at all, rather a strong continuation. I have no complaint with that either.
- rullopat 5y agoThe new iMac substitutes a very old desktop computer. Maybe you forgot the bending IPhone and the most aweful keyboard ever to make the thinnest laptops possible. The new MacBook Pros are thicker than previous ones, new iPhones and iPads too.
- dundarious 5y agoI just think it's ironic to point out they "stopped" making thin stuff in the comments of a post about a new and notably thin desktop. To avoid comparisons with a very old desktop then, I can't think of a thinner desktop on the market.
- sys_64738 5y agoIt isn't an infinity style edge display and has a chin. It just looks odd.