Apple updates its iMac line

Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:28AM (#19431103)

If you’re buying a “$3000” iMac you’re not buying one with a fusion drive....

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by FractalParadigm on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:44AM (#19431224)

Canadian price for a top-end 27" Retina iMac is $3079, and has a 2TB Fusion drive standard. The 512GB SSD option is $120 more than the Fusion drive.

A quarter of the storage at a premium price isn't exactly appealing to a lot of people, regardless of how much faster it may be.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:45AM (#19431243)

You know there is a way that you can configure what you want for your budget....

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by resters on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:03AM (#19431432)

I maxed out the CPU and got a lot of RAM, I assumed the drive would have enough cache that I wouldn't notice the spindle aspect.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:36AM (#19431799)

And now that you see it isn’t the case after that you couldn’t just say “my bad” and spend the < $200 for an SSD drive?

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by resters on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:36PM (#19434796)

I think the SSD would have been $500 more, which I would have happily paid if I had realized how poorly the fusion drive would perform.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:51PM (#19437434)

So you would have been willing to spend $500 morethen but not spend much less and buy an external drive now?

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by resters on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @07:33AM (#19441019)

I’m not unwilling to buy an external drive, but I’d rather have a better internal drive.

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