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Will there ever be a new large iMac (Pro)?
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Never used this, but a friend who is an electrical engineer requires Windows natively installed. He prefer the MacBook Pro hardware but install Windows for work and use macOS for personal use.
I have Win10 on a secondary SSD in my hack tower but it practically never gets used, because I do all of my work under macOS and constantly rebooting is disruptive and generally a pain. My MBP is macOS-only.
It's nice to have for the random game or whatever, but hopefully Apple's platform unification push and apparent more serious approach to games will help bring more of those to macOS. If that doesn't happen, ~$800 will get me a pretty capable dedicated gaming box.
I used to for games, but then bought a dedicated Windows gaming machine (far better suited for purpose and in the end cheaper then upgrading iMacs every two years just for the GPU improvements).
I do run a Windows VM on my iMac, but since I have a Windows gaming machine, I can use it for what few non-gaming Windows tasks I run if/when I go to Apple Silicon.
I use Parallels. I tried Bootcamp and it always defaulted to Windows unless I specifically interrupted it during bootup.
Sounds like you had the wrong disk selected in the Startup disk setting. You can select the Mac HD and it'll auto boot into Mac.
I, too, use Parallels. Or I should say that I have it loaded. I thought I would use it a LOT more for some university classes I was taking. I haven't been in Windows on my Mac in months. Can't even remember using it for anything, actually. So going to AS for me is a no-brainer. Most of what I do is either in MS Office or in a browser.
I wish the 27-incher were the first to go to AS. But I understand why most of you would disagree.
Probably too early. I think the week after the earliest
Agreed. They have to let the WWDC excitement about AS run its course.
Exactly! Also, part of me hope that the longer the wait the higher the chance for RDNA2.
Although I suspect that because they were meant to be released at WWDC and Apple postponned it then it probably means RDNA1. But you never know, maybe we will get lucky : )
Although I suspect that because they were meant to be released at WWDC and Apple postponned it then it probably means RDNA1. But you never know, maybe we will get lucky : )
I do. For some hardware i need it (because Apple killed drivers) and for games and my steam library it's the only option to access many of them and a lot of them that are on (i assume only intel Mac) performance is better on Windows.
Seeing bootcamp for windows go for the time being really makes me happy that we get another intel iMac that probably will last me another 5-10 years.
I‘m also very excited of the new 27“ IMac
Currently I own a MacBook Pro 16“ but It stays only on my desk.
In future i will buy the 12.9 IPad Pro for my mobile purposes and Holiday for Photo editing.
I hope I Can make a good trade in by my local dealer
Greetings
Currently I own a MacBook Pro 16“ but It stays only on my desk.
In future i will buy the 12.9 IPad Pro for my mobile purposes and Holiday for Photo editing.
I hope I Can make a good trade in by my local dealer
Greetings
So if I got this right, from the information that we have currently is that the iMac will be redesigned only once when the new intel machines come out and shortly after the ARM version? We won't get a redesign twice?
This is a fun video to watch on why i don't neccecerly await a redesign with joy and happiness and why ARM might be badass.
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Nah, you got this wrong. The rumors point to a redesign right now, with the intel release. The last PowerPC iMac before the switch to intel also was a Redesign, the first intel model just looked the same on the outside.
Nah, you got this wrong. The rumors point to a redesign right now, with the intel release. The last PowerPC iMac before the switch to intel also was a Redesign, the first intel model just looked the same on the outside.
They really do not need to do much of a resigns for Intel iMac. It will not take years to take off 1.5 cm bezels all around and to decrease/remove the chin and use the iMac Pro cooling solution and it will look modern enough for the next two years.
The first AS for Mac will likely not be 100-200W SoCs. Max 50W, a power range far more than the iPad, and able to drive a 4k display at 120 Hz and powerful enough to handle Rosetta and virstualisations. A 50W chip in a case cooling 500W will be ridiculous. I believe we will experience the same "what?" as when they released the first iPad and we realised that the price was not $ 1000 but $499 (I think it was). I hope the 24 inch starts at $1299 with 256 SSD+16 Gb RAM.
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The first AS for Mac will likely not be 100-200W SoCs. Max 50W, a power range far more than the iPad, and able to drive a 4k display at 120 Hz and powerful enough to handle Rosetta and virstualisations. A 50W chip in a case cooling 500W will be ridiculous. I believe we will experience the same "what?" as when they released the first iPad and we realised that the price was not $ 1000 but $499 (I think it was). I hope the 24 inch starts at $1299 with 256 SSD+16 Gb RAM.
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No one known but the general ideas i that Intel iMacs arrive before the AS. If there is a major redesign of the Intel iMac, no one knows. The so called leaker can have gotten confused messages where the iPad Pro design for iMac only applies to the AS iMac.
So today I saw for the first time new Pro Display XDR in person and that thing is huge and THICK! What comes to my mind is that when they would swap the display with LCD they would gather large space inside to fit logic board etc. there. Combined with solid non-detachable non-rotable stand (similar to what iMacs have now) that could very well be a housing for new 6K 32-inch iMac.
Nobody knows for sure - including everyone leaking on Twitter and in the media.
IMO, the physical redesign will be limited to the Apple Silicon model which will have a 24-inch display. I feel this based on what MCK has reported because he has contacts directly in Apple's supply chain so they have probably seen the chassis.
I believe the 21.5-inch 4K and 27-inch 5K model updates will look like they do now, but will have 9th (base) and 10th (BTO) Generation Intel CPUs and AMD RDNA 1.0 CPUs (Navi 14 base and Navi 10/10+ BTO).
It probably explains why Apple does not update their Macs immediately after Intel releases a new CPU since it is often on a new socket and chipset. They're still working through older stock before switching over.
I'm interested to know if the 5600M and HBA is socket-compatible with the 5300M/5400M on the MBP 16". If so, it could explain why Apple did not update the CPU to Comet Lake-H - they would be waiting until they switch to MiniLED to also update the CPU and systemboard (as Comet Lake-H uses a different socket than Kaby Lake-R).
Rosetta 2 will work with macOS native x86 games, but Windows x86 code will not run on Apple Silicon.