Apple updates its iMac line

Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:25AM (#19431681)

The problem in the 80s was that the margins were both ridiculously high and the Mac’s were slow. When Windows became good enough, no one bought Macs and it almost killed Apple.

Apple never claimed any iMac was for Pros except the iMac Pro.

You are free to choose any combination of memory, hard drive, processor speed trade offs that meet your budget.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by kbutler on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:37PM (#19434039)

> Apple never claimed any iMac was for Pros except the iMac Pro.

Apple explicitly claims the iMac is for "pros" in the article this page is discussing:

"iMac is ideal for pros"

"iMac is loved by consumers and pros alike."

"the most demanding pro workloads."

"even a pro studio."

and more.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/imac-gets-a-2x-perfor...

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @02:43PM (#19434123)

Not the same iMac. If all iMacs should be for consumers and Pros should they also sell them all with the highest performing graphics card and 64GB of RAM?

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by kbutler on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:00PM (#19434351)

So, yes, Apple describes some iMacs that are not iMac-Pros as "for Pros".

> should they also sell them all with the highest performing graphics card and 64GB of RAM?

Nope, those are each about $400 retail (well, the delta from 32GB->64GB is only about $200 retail), and won't benefit everyone.

But at this point, every iMac they sell with the HDD or fusion drive will meet your description of "the margins were both ridiculously high and the Mac’s were slow."

They should deliver the OS installed on a 128GB SSD ($25 retail) just to preserve the reputation of the platform.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by scarface74 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:50PM (#19437420)

The difference is that you could not get a Mac as fast as the then current PC at any price until the switch to Intel.

Even during the brief period where the PowerPC was faster than the current Intel processors, Macs were hobbled by an OS that was still partially emulated and bus speeds that were slower than PC motherboards. Not to mention the anemic graphics hardware.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by huffmsa on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:38AM (#19431812)

I know what happened and I'm concerned it's going to happen again, soon

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