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Apple has defied that assumption that the desktop is on the outs and dropped refreshed super-thin iMacs at its event today.
They were expected this summer at WWDC, an update is better late than never. The new models are 80 per cent thinner than their predecessors. We didn’t anticipate a redesign, but they’re incredibly beautiful from what we can see. Apple will offer iMacs in 21.5-inch and 27-inch versions, the latter of which has a resolution of 2560 by 1440.
The screen has 75 percent less reflection, and a few other features like an HD camera, dual microphones, and a stereo sound system that’s supposed to be much better than the previous generation. Specs got a bump too—the new machine has quad-core i5 or i7 processors, and up to 32GB of RAM and as much as 768GB of flash storage. These guys have four USB 3.0 ports and two Thunderbolt, which is very nice. On top of that, there’s an SD card, gigabit ethernet, and a fusion drive—that’s 128GB of flash storage plus 1 or 3 TB of hard drive combined into one hard drive. Doesn’t sound half bad.
The smaller model starts at £1,099 and ships in November, and the 27-incher starts at £1,499 and ships in December.
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I’ve always got a lot of hate for Apple’s BS marketing (see Fusion drive as “new” technology) and their copying mantras.
But you’ve got to hand it to them they make nice stuff, if they cut out fighting for every penny of every market by hook or by crook they’d still be very successful with stuff like this.
I don’t really see the need to make desktop computers thinner, it’s not like you’ll be carrying it around or anything, but daaaang that’s thin! And yet they were still able to double the maximum RAM of the previous model.
Just let it be known that you will never ever be able to repair one of these or upgrade any of the parts. Portability has its price.
You never could replace or upgrade components in an iMac, other than the hard drive or RAM as everything is soldered into place. 32GB of RAM will be nice though, and only £100 third party.
I do like this very much but Ive got a 1 year old iMac and the problems Ive had with wifi and other bugs in the OS really takes the shine off it for me, I wont be getting one until Apple sort out all of their software issues.
No optical drive on a large desktop computer is pure insanity.
Did anyone think the old iMac was roo fat?
I can’t remember the last time I needed to out a disc into a PC. If its that essential then a plugin drive would work. Our argument will no doubt be it should be in there already but that would affect the amazing design.
Looks neat! cant see if it will be an improvement, Surely its just gunna be a laptop you cant close or upgrade? If apple could reinvent something else rather than slimming down things and charging more that would be a true return to form.
Yes, charging more for less doesn’t seem like a great idea.