Apple updates its iMac line

Re:Apple updates its iMac line by hocuspocus on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:13AM (#19430430)

I would never buy an iMac but from what I hear, storage options and their pricing are even more frustrating than RAM (which you can upgrade yourself on the iMac 5K). While a neat trick when it first came out, I don't think fusion drive makes sense in 2019, so you're left with very expensive NVMe SSDs, when a 500GB or 1TB SATA SSD would be plenty enough to most people, for a fraction of the cost.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by j-c-hewitt on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:21AM (#19431023)

You can get a 500 GB Samsung nVME for about $150 now, not much more than what a regular SSD was a couple years ago... but totally agreed that a regular SSD is more than fast enough for most people. If it was manufactured this decade, it should probably boot to desktop in less than 20 seconds.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by C1sc0cat on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:25AM (#19430539)

Why use a sata SSD as your primary boot disk and not a M.3 drive which is the goto primary drive for performance PC builds

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