Stuck between buying end of era Intel iMac/iMac pro or iMac/iMac pro Apple Silicon. I'm leaning towards waiting and buying second generation Apple Silicon iMac/iMac pro next year now...
It's like watching a whole community undergo memory loss.
It is extremely common for Apple to have an event/product release at the beginning of August. (In Toronto, we call it the Civic Holiday/Simcoe Day weekend.)
Stuck between buying end of era Intel iMac/iMac pro or iMac/iMac pro Apple Silicon. I'm leaning towards waiting and buying second generation Apple Silicon iMac/iMac pro next year now...
I know exactly how you feel. I'm in the same boat, albeit for a 16" MBP.
IMHO there is no way a new iMac design will occur with the Intel version. It will get internal updates only, most likely SSD as standard for no extra cost. The new design will be kept solely for the Apple Si versions.
It would be nice, and long overdue, to finally say goodbye forever to HDD-only and Fusion Macs.
My late 2013 iMac 14,2 has a 1TB Fusion drive that continues to perform at optimum level. DriveX reports the 128GB SSD portion has 68% life left. Seven years and still going strong. My iMac boots quickly so I don’t understand the hate.
It isn't 'hate' against HDD or Fusion drives as such, the gripe is the fact that an SSD is a BTO additional cost when they have come down so much in price. If you want a 5400 RPM HDD with a 128 SSD it should cost less than the default Mac which these days should come with an SSD. Given Apple's lead over the decades in dropping technologies the PC world hangs on to for years,e.g. floppies, optical drives, and so on, it just seems weird Apple still ships the default configuration with spinning drives in 2020.
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It is extremely common for Apple to have an event/product release at the beginning of August.
(In Toronto, we call it the Civic Holiday/Simcoe Day weekend.)