new imac?
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- Boz0
You have to buy hard drives from Apple now too and you can't replace them yourself... LOL. Good luck paying $100 over the price of the same hard drive on PC.
New iMac frees you from the tyranny (and convenience) of servicing your own hard drives:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/…Source:
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-a…What a wonderful company!
- Boz0
What OWC guys conclude:
"In examining the 2011 27″ iMac’s viability for our Turnkey Upgrade Service, every workaround we’ve tried thus far to allow us to upgrade the main bay factory hard drive still resulted in spinning fans and an Apple Hardware Test failure. We swapped the main drive out (in this case a Western Digital Black WD1001FALS) with the exact same model drive from our inventory which resulted in a failure. We’ve installed our Mercury Pro 6G SSD in that bay, it too results in ludicrous speed engaged fans and an AHT failure. In short, the Apple-branded main hard drive cannot be moved, removed or replaced.To add insult to injury, the latest iMac EFI Update 1.6 unleashed 6Gb/s speeds on two internal ports – and naturally, one of them is the proprietary, firmware-limited, 7200RPM main drive that can’t take advantage of those speeds anyway."
- sigg0
1. there is a second hard drive bay that you can put anything you want in. Also, you can boot off that second drive if you want.
2. if the primary drive fails, you can have it replaced for free
3. if the primary drive isn't large enough or fast enough, you can put something better in the second bay
4. this is a consumer, not a pro, machine; it's unreasonable to expect 12 tb of storage or some huge RAID.Non issue?
- Boz0
You can't replace any hard drives due to proprietary connectors and custom firmware, so no, you can't put anything you want.
Replacing or upgrading a hard drive is not a big issue to you? LOL it has nothing to do with pro machine, it has everything to do with Apple forcing you to pay them higher prices of hard drives and have to buy it from them only.
Good luck with that. You'll be paying now $100 over the price of the same hard drive to Apple because they can rip you for it.
The hard drive is usually the first thing that croaks.
- sigg0
furthermore.
iMacs aren't meant to be user serviceable, so Apple's looking to economize the design by reducing the number of parts—removing the separate external sensor/cable monitoring the HDD's temp in favor of an integrated sensor. (Mildly analogous: Soldering flash storage chips directly onto the logic board of the MacBook Airs. Less complexity, but the trade-off is it's not user replaceable. SOP for Apple, really.)
- sigg0
again. non issue.
- Boz0
LOL.. it's fantastic that you are just blindly ok with this and just come up with justifications for being ripped off.. Wow, talk about Apple fans being completely reprogrammed to give Apple money for everything..
But whatever I guess. it's your money..
- Seanbot0
They seem like pretty solid machines. Thinking of grabbing the 21.5" for home.
In regards to the HD though, it's a bit bogus, but Apple does sell a product called "Mac Pro" afterall, and that has plenty of user-replaceable parts for it.
- kona0
they are solid machines. do it sean. i've got the 24 and it's lightning fast. I'm thinking of giving it to my Dad and getting the new 27 though. So much awesome in the new machines.
- raf0
Can you replace the hard drive in the Google laptop you just announced you were getting Boz?
Wait... it has no hard drive, it has a cloud instead. It "frees you from the tyranny (and convenience) of servicing your own hard drives" too.
Where's your rant about Google pushing a proprietary cloud Boz, I can't seem to find it?
- akrok0
i don't have a imac but...
i am on one 24" so the 20" at my ex. job felt a bit small.so, i would go 27".
- BANKattack0
thanks - can anyone weigh in on the i7 vs i5 ?
- akrok0
i heard something about i5 being faster then i7. but i am not 100 on that. hombro_lobo, should know.
- CQDE0
i've got the previous gen iMac 27" and it's more than enough (photoshop, illustrator, indesign, light AE and FCPro use).. 27" is amazing.. can't complain over more work area but i also don't have a problem with space where my imac lives..
i also work on a 24" monitor at work and the size difference does not bug me at all.. i assume 21.5" wouldn't be shabby either
- turnerworks0
I have a 27" at work. It looked like a behemoth at first, but I love it now.
- akrok0
well, you will be at 2k, and then 200 more for i7. and 200 more if you go 8GB.
- you can get 16GB from OWC for $200.Chief
- holly molly!akrok
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- Chief0
I'm thinking i'll put my old Mac Pro and ACD on craigslist and go with a new 27". I don't do enough freelance work to justify a new Mac Pro, though I'd love to have a 12-core. But the new iMacs are plenty fast.
- doesnotexist0
27" imac is the shit, just got mine in december and i love it. performance is great, if i remember correctly i got the best processor i could...i7?
- BANKattack0
thanks - i'm worried i7 may be overkill, not really rendering anything, but loading samples and searching for shit on my fukt MBP has been a pain. I want a clean big machine that's fast.
- the iMac is perfect for all needs, if you need more get a tower. until then.. iMac is great.e-pill