David Hanak Yesterday, Apple followed up on Monday's presentation of new products. We didn't see anything really new, the company just changed the specifications of iMacs and slightly modified the configurations of other Macs. You can read about the complete changes for iMacs in the article linked below. Then, when you look at the overall range of Macs on Apple's website, you may realize that something is not quite right.
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Dan Pražák If you want a new iMac, Apple will sell you the cheapest one for almost 34 thousand crowns. This may not seem like a high amount at first glance, especially if you associate Apple with quality and modern hardware. However, a look at the specifications of the most affordable iMac makes you think.
For 34 crowns, you get a 21,5″ iMac, whose display only has Full HD resolution (compared to other 4K and 5K variants). This could probably be excused by the fact that it is the cheapest model, which simply has some compromises (although the price tag does not seem too cheap). What cannot be excused, however, is the presence of a classic plate disc.
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It is absurd that nowadays it is still possible to have a classic, old and slow platter disk with 30 revolutions per minute (!!!) in a new computer, the purchase price of which considerably exceeds 5 crowns. Such obscure hardware has no business being offered by a company like Apple. The 400 rpm disk had its justification five years ago, in notebooks where every bit of energy saved was important and user comfort was not considered too much. However, this type of HDD has nothing to do in a classic desktop, even in an all-in-one design. From a user's point of view, this is an element that takes the feel of the entire computer down several levels.
If you are not satisfied with the hard drive (which is completely understandable), Apple offers an upgrade to a 3TB Fusion Drive for NOK 200, which is nothing more than a classic hard drive with an SSD cache. However, this hybrid solution is also past its zenith, and given the low price of classic SSD drives, it is surprising that Apple still offers classic plates. An SSD disk is available for the cheapest iMac for an additional fee of NOK 1. However, you only get 6 GB for that. It is also infamous in the case of operating memory, where the base is only a ridiculous 400 GB (DDR256, 8 Mhz). The surcharges for higher capacity are once again astronomical, exactly as we are used to from Apple.
The problem with iMacs is also that while some components are replaceable (CPU, RAM and HDD), they are hidden behind a relatively large amount of work. Replacing these components requires almost complete disassembly of the iMac, and very few people will do that.
Overall, the cheapest 21,5″ iMac is really more of a sad piece of hardware than an enticing offering in the apple company's portfolio. In addition to the aforementioned, you only get weak mobile graphics integrated in the processor (Iris Plus 640), which is also two generations old today (for all other iMacs, Apple offers Intel processors from the 8th and 9th generations). A step more expensive (+6,-) iMac makes a little more sense in terms of equipment, even so the current offer of classic iMacs is not very attractive.
How do you view the current situation in the iMac menu?
If it's not because Apple spreads its offer too wide and simply can't keep up. Today there are so many types of ipads, iphones, macbooks that it is even chaos.
Well, it's not a happy sight...now he shows us a new charger, an ipod and a new emoji...that will be exciting.
No, it's because some fool buys a similar nonsensical configuration with an ultra-altitude surcharge and they know it.
Complete agreement! It's scary! In order to have a relatively decent computer for a few years ahead, I would have to spend about 150 CZK.
Well, what do you allow yourself to do? Shouldn't I take it as criticism? In a moment, you'll order Jenda and his comrades-in-arms, and you'll give it to you. Do you run to the Android World with similarly tuned articles? Does everything here have to be bathed only in apple glow?
And now it's important, the prices are out. Sometimes it seems to me that after the death of Jobs, Apple went crazy and put out one outdated product after another and hope that when you stick an apple on a phone, feeling, ... for 10k, then everyone will screw up and pay 40k for it
Some eighth generation processors are already a year and a half old. The chipset for the eighth and ninth generations is the same, and the graphics cards are the same, so we could have had 6-core processors in iMacs a year and a half ago. Some 8-core processors were released half a year ago.
8GB of RAM is insufficient and spinning disks are laughable at the current prices of ssd disks.
Again, it's completely overpriced and the surcharges for better equipment are extreme. The basic model is weak even for an office computer. Fusion drives are now obsolete.
It's terrible! Try to sell useless junk for hard money.
In 2012, I bought the first thin iMac and sold it after a year, because it simply couldn't function normally with the hard drive. And I said how is it possible that Apple is still stuffing that shit in there. And here I am 7 years later and the situation is still the same. I don't even have words anymore. It's really sad.
Extra charge for 256GB SSD 6400? For that, we can easily get a 1TB very fast nvme SSD at retail today.
a steal..old design, outdated hardware…
Maybe that's why they released it quietly. :) I want to replace the new iMac from Mid 2011, but for this one?
That brand is really a lot to cry about. For maybe 12 years.
This brand has been embarrassing since its inception and not only because of its pricing policy.
Otherwise, every manufacturer that still produces and sells devices with a classic HDD in 2019 deserves to be punished!
As far as I'm concerned, the last technically superior Macs were the Power G5. System X derived from NeXT Step, designed by Jonathan Ivo, and until the arrival of Core2, Intel did not catch up in terms of performance.
Come on guys build a Hackintosh. Maybe under Cook it will lead to the fact that Apple will stop making desktops altogether. Xcode is ported to Widle and done. Today you no longer need a Mac to develop for iOS. Most of the profit goes to the iPhone shirt and services anyway. IBM also stopped making computers and moved on. Jobs is gone and now it's just a bill. The vast majority of people don't need a desktop. A mobile phone or tablet is sufficient.
this is deliberate sabotage. I can't explain it. Even my mega insta apple cousin recognized that it was somehow too expensive to buy it. So then I don't know who on earth can buy this.
Selling with a serious face a desktop computer with 8GB RAM and 5400rpm hdd in 2019 for >30kč? In my opinion, no one who is judgmental or not, will buy that. In my opinion, it's purely a marketing trick from Bata so that they can write "the price starts from..." on the main page.
Classic Apple simply sells the brand on the spot first and then the product. They mainly focus on laymen who either have no idea or have so much money that they don't mind burning it in the fireplace. For a few hundred, a decent company will build you a PC with adequate performance, and you can use the extra few thousand in other ways. Another bad thing is that it is difficult to perform maintenance on something like this - i.e. clean it thoroughly, put a new paste every few years, etc. And if the hardware inside burns out or simply gets old, I can't even use the screen, which is mostly still working, as a monitor for to the new one. Just Apple…