Huh? PowerPCs didn't change design.
Centris 610, pre-PowerPC
Power Mac 6100, the first PowerPC
No design change.
People bought PowerPCs because they were fast.
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Huh? PowerPCs didn't change design.
Centris 610, pre-PowerPC
Power Mac 6100, the first PowerPC
No design change.
People bought PowerPCs because they were fast.
Well, here we are. The iMac has been all but confirmed to be turned into a useless toy fairly soon as well.
Mac Pro, you are our last hope.
Or maybeee........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasqjPHpxyI
Mac Pro, you are our last hope.
Or maybeee........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasqjPHpxyI
It's going to be thinner. Less upgradeability, less customizability, less lifespan.
Retina MacBook Pro with a larger screen and a stand.
How so? The iMacs were never particularly upgradable, but the new model includes a standard (looks like 2.5") hard drive. No pictures of the RAM, but I'd be extremely surprised if that was soldered to the board if they didn't bother using a blade style SSD.
Going thinner and with a 2.5" hard drive is not really the direction tht was necessary for what was already a thermally constrained "desktop" computer. This is not good, no matter which way one spins it. I am tired of listening to my rMBP's impression of a hair dryer. No matter how amazing and magical the special fans are, apple still has not managed to beat the laws of thermal dynamics. Fact of the matter is that the MBP halts to turtle speed under sustained CPU/GPU load. This is the way the iMac is going now too. I am not normally one of the posters that throws their hands up in the air and predicts doom and gloom, but this form over function obsession that Steve Jobs left behind is now getting stupid. The iMac did not need to be thinner. It does not need slow and small capacity 2.5" drives. This is meant to be a bloody desktop.
Oh it'll come with glue. Glue that attaches every component of the machine to every other.
Apple's new warranty policy will soon be very simple. "If you have a problem with your machine and are within your warranty period, bring your Mac to the nearest Apple Store so a Genius can replace it with a new one and send the old one to a landfill in its entirety."
Apply the thermal paste the correct way and it won't spin up as fast at least.
I don't think anyone could convince me to buy the rMBP especially at the price tag
I don't see them killing off any iteration of their desktop lines. Every desktop (iMac, mini, pro) has a part in the Apple ecosystem. Their desktop market share is steadiliy growing and they need all these niche machines for every sector of the market to continue influencing future buyers.
I say it's coming... eventually.
I say it's coming... eventually.
I think it needs hydrogen coolers, never mind thermal paste.
Liquid nitrogen tank like the extended batteries on most computers..The magical cooling system.
Liquid nitrogen tank like the extended batteries on most computers..The magical cooling system.
I think even sending the Foxconn employees on a "How to apply thermal paste 101" would save Apple millions in the long run.
It's pretty standard in apple notebook
1) Buy computer
2) when home disassemble computer
3) clean and reapply thermal past
4) reassemble put big HDD or SSD in computer
5) turn on for the first time
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Huh? With TB, you can customize any Mac quite nicely. You are thinking like it is 2011 and you have a wimp wallet.
iMac isn't meant to be a Pro or even close. All iMacs I have used aren't anything close to a Mac Pro. If you want something that is like a Mac Pro, get a Mac Pro.
Sooner or later the iMac will become a glorified iPad. The iPad will become a low-end iMac. I'd say probably around 2016 there will be a point where you detach the iMac screen from a base and walk around with it. By that time people won't be too concerned about having super-fast processing because the iPad/iMac processors will be plenty fast to handle anything that 99% of people need from computers.
Let's just hope the Mac Pro never dies, even if it is updated only once every 3 years. I still find all single processor computers to be irritating and slow, despite the numbers Geekbench throws out.
I'm glad 3 years works for you because that's how long it's going to be between upgrades.
The difference for me is I'll have gone from old to ancient.
Huh? That's about as much upgradability as it had before. The hard drives on the current iMac aren't upgradable without a lot of work either. Replacing the drive in a current iMac involves reaching areas of the machine that aren't screwdriver accessible.