Funny! Here ... always had silver cars ... until this black vehicle! And ... instead of cats ... try Danes! Oh, and I live on the edge ... of the mouse pad.
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Show off your 24" iMac (Apple Silicon)
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Some people with older CRT machines take out the tube and put in a clear liner and make a fish tank. Sounds a little fishy to me.
Would be great if the white bezels of the iMac are just the beginning of this ”white revolution” !
Still rocking my iPhone 6 with white front and love it every time I look at it, screen on or off.
Still rocking my iPhone 6 with white front and love it every time I look at it, screen on or off.
Good choice - M1 iMac with only 8GB works like a champ for me for what I do.
My other M1 is a base Mini with 8GB and it works like it's on steroids driving 2 displays simultaneously.
I would only go to 16GB if I was doing 4K/8K video editing, multi track music production/editing or 3D CAD/CAM type programs which I don't....
Yeah I agree. I’ve edited a few 4K videos that for my sisters wedding and made 2 30 minute videos and it handled it with a breeze which was very impressive. Hopefully not making a mistake by keeping the 8gb as I do intend on having it for a while.
Historical overview of the iMac's evolution:
A fantastic video, highly recommended to watch!
A fantastic video, highly recommended to watch!
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This is the one I got - lots of color options, and I like the size and price, too.
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Has there been any sales numbers for these new macs? When you see a product with a lot more advertising than usual (like a bad movie) it probably means it isn’t selling well.
Early to tell. They wouldn't likely say too much at the WWDC this week. Clearly, the all in one (AIO) desktops are not a 'prime' category. Laptops, tablets, and minis with multiple screens are the way things seem today. I guess content creators are often the desktop people mentioned but even they use different set-ups rather than an AIO. With the color options Apple seems to be trying to make it a centerpiece for the home ... but the younger you are the more likely you would choose a laptop and plug it into a screen ... if you needed the extra 'real estate' (and be hanging out in your bedroom, or dorm). AIOs just seem to be passe. Just my opinion, of course. *Maybe the virus has made them a little more relevant?
Seeing how they are backordered until late July/early August I think they are selling pretty well. In store stock is hard to get also (at least in NYC). Chip shortage may have affected available stock though.
I agree that AIO do not generally represent the biggest slice of the Mac pie. Most professionals and students want MacBooks for portability. In my case I switched from a MacBook Pro that mainly sat of my desk to the iMac so I don’t have to worry about battery health or swelling issues anymore. My 2018 12.9 iPad Pro with Magic keyboard can get me by when I need a portable (not to mention my work issued laptop). Also going to look into replacing the swollen battery on my late 2013 15 inch MacBook Pro as it still runs pretty well.
I decided to transition to all the M1 stuff for the computers rather than sticking with Intel Macs ... but I really have no software application issues constraining my work ... also, like you, have a large iPad. So, my sweet spot configuration is the iPad + the iMac.
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I know we are supposed to showing off our iMac set-up on this thread ... I did post my first set-up ... but I am trying to group the iMac, mini, and iPad together because it more typifies how I work. As soon as I can rearrange the table(s) I'll post. It won't be pretty ... I am a messy worker.
I had a MacBook Air 2013 until now - it has served me well, but it's really just sitting on my desk all the time. The battery is getting old and I don't think I'm going to replace it. There's something loose inside of the MacBook (you can hear it rattling around) and I suspect that it gives out sooner or later... I also have an iPad Pro, which is more than enough for university (it runs Anki, which is the most important thing lol)
So... yeah, I'm looking forward to having a bigger screen and more space on my desk with the iMac.
With almost 2 month delay for shipping I think it's good that they aren't selling many more than they can manufacture
Firstly, we'll very soon see what gets unveiled or possibly strongly hinted at WWDC.
Second, I don't think Apple would be all that interested in the iMac if they didn't see it (as their AIO system) as a 'prime' category. It's been Apple's most productive product since the compact Macs, and I don't think there is any actual evidence to suggest who the common users and groups of it are, or have ever been - including age groups.
It's a bit easy to simply conclude that the colour implementation of the M1 iMacs is about targeting home users, but I doubt they have their sights as narrowly focussed as that at all. If I had to make a guess, I'd say that their decision to use colour this way is not about 'the home' but about marking out the M1 iMac as 'different', and 'fun', and putting 'cute back in computing'. It's a style statement, which isn't (I think) about location of use so much as people, wherever they are.
Given that it has never been unusual to find Mac users who have both a desktop and a laptop, I also doubt that Apple are expecting all that different a market for either going forward. They have also been highly successful in recent years with multiple products in both these market segments, so it doesn't seem likely to me that they are likely to want to change that broad product lineup particularly.
Where I think the M1 scores is the ability to blur the lines between their traditional 'consumer' and 'pro' markets. If, for example, a base-level M1 iMac can compete against an iMac Pro (as we have seen in at least one review that it can), then differentiating these markets becomes less important, but would rely on some other factors than merely sheer horsepower. It would, for example, be more than feasible to envisage a Mac Pro which is actually more of a modular M1 (or M-whatever) mini than the discreet big-box system it has previously been.
Apple Silicon gives Apple a lot more wiggle room than Intel could have, and it would be a surprise to me if Apple was not thinking pretty clearly about how to use that fact with their product ranges and target audience into the future.
*If the pandemic has made any product range more relevant, I'd say it is not so much All-In-Ones as laptops. In my organization, for example, we resourced working from home for our professionals and staff with a whole lot of new laptops. As far as I know, I was the only one using an AIO.
(None of this is actually to argue, so much as use your post as the base from which I could justify giving my view of Apple's positioning and plans)!
This, is more or less, my plan. I’m pondering speaker choice. If I was getting a pair now it would probably be a couple of homepod mini, but I’m tempted also by a single Sonos initially with a possiblity of a second down the line.
All good points. For me, I bought the M1 mini and the M1 iMac principally because they seem to converge some of the coding with the iOS side ... it has helped simplify some issues I had with the non-Arm (CISC Intel) to ARM (RISC) situation.
Why is it unusual to find people using Apple laptops and desktops? I will agree though that most people get an Apple laptop instead of a desktop. The iMac is something special though.
