Apple Scraps Plans for 27-inch iMac 15
Apple has confirmed it has no plans to release a 27-inch iMac, ending speculation about a larger successor to its flagship desktop computer. The tech giant will instead focus on its 24-inch M3 iMac and Mac Studio offerings.
This is news? (Score:4, Insightful)
So we're discussing an article from a year ago... why?
Re:This is news? (Score:4, Funny)
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iMacs are crap because they are unupgradable. You have to throw away a pretty good display
I won't even consider buying an iMac until they bring back Target Display mode. With them now having Thunderbolt 4 ports there's no excuse for not doing it.
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Maybe because there are no updates to the plan as the M4 came out? 24" is too small, and quite frankly, I splurged and got a pair of XDRs which I love from 2019. 6K. Still relevant. Probably keeping them another 4 to 5 years. I can change the PC under them without insane costs. iMacs are crap because they are unupgradable. You have to throw away a pretty good display, especially when you make the bone-headed mistake of buying one from the Apple Store where they only carry 8GB ram models.
Out of curiosity -do you think that an iMac is stuck with the RAM it came with? 8GB isn't anywhere near enough, but adding RAM is hella simpler than on most Windows machines. You don't even need to open it up.
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Because the "editors" are worse than lazy (Score:2)
This is normal and obviously approved of by Slashdot's owners.
Well... (Score:2)
Buy a Mac mini and attach it to a 27" display? Or a 32" one?
Apple probably knows that whoever wants a big display isn't exactly keen on buying an expensive display with a Mac in it. The 24 inch iMac is nice for simple office things and if you don't want to bother with cables. But as soon as cables aren't your main concern selecting your own display isn't that big of a problem.
Just make a VESA mount for the new Mini. (Score:3)
Apple should just built a mounting bracket for the new Mini that attaches with screws into a pair of 75mm or 100mm VESA mount holes and lets the device hang off the back of a monitor. Building the computer into the monitor didn't really make sense when Apple first started doing it in 1984, and it sure as heck never made sense once LCD panels gave you displays that are usable for decades. The only situation where that even remotely makes sense is with laptops/tablets, and only because it's too hard to make something that is modular and still portable.
The iMac, as a desktop computer built into a display, is and always has been a steaming pile of e-waste waiting to happen. You throw away a perfectly good monitor after three to six years just because the brain can't run recent versions of the OS, has inadequate storage, etc.
There was only a brief period when Apple wasn't horrible in this area, back when they supported Target Display Mode, for turning an iMac into an overpriced display. Unfortunately, this is not supported in current hardware. Yes, Apple supports an "extended display" mode, which kind of works, but has limitations that preclude the most obvious use of a used iMac. First, because it involves shoving compressed video over a network, it is not as good as having a hard-cabled second display. Second, because it is not a physical display, as far as I know, an extended display can't be your only display, which precludes, for example, replacing an iMac with a Mac Studio using the iMac as a display, both because it can't be used in that way and because you'd never be able to set it up in the first place without a physical monitor.
So for folks who actually care about the environment and reducing e-waste, there's really no place for the iMac in their world. Buy a third-party monitor and combine it a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. If Apple embraced that future and dumped the iMac line outright, replacing it with a simpler way of mounting the Mini to the back of a display, they'd make a lot of people very happy.
Mac VESA mounts already abound. (Score:2)
No one needs an "Apple" mount to hang a Mac off an aftermarket monitor since non-Apple mounts exist in considerable variety.
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No one needs an "Apple" mount to hang a Mac off an aftermarket monitor since non-Apple mounts exist in considerable variety.
The new Mini is a totally new size and shape from previous models, so no, they don't.
And trust me as somebody who has tried to do stuff like this with previous Mac Mini models in the past, it's not as easy as it sounds. I ended up building a frame for the top and bottom of the hardware, with screws to pull them together and hold the Mini as a sandwich. It's not elegant, but it works. To do it well, though, would require help from Apple, who could do sensible things like putting threaded mounting holes in
Apple has downgraded the iMac (Score:2)
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Given the original bondi blue iMac was an appliance computer ... nothing's really changed?
After all, all you needed to do was plug in the keyboard and mouse, power, and a modem or ethernet cable, and you were on the internet.
It's also a nice computer to use for say, a receptionist as it's fairly clean looking so a reception desk can look relatively clean.
One of the many reasons not to bundle (Score:2)
If you want flexibility in things like screen sizes, it's a good idea not to buy an all-in-one system. Separate components let you pick exactly what works for you.