stimpy

This article is skewed and I understand the skewed comments. I have over 3000 machines in a given year out on lease. I own all of them. The company leasing them adds them to their MDM accounts and are informed to remove them at the end of the lease term. When they come back about 30% of them are MDM locked. The person(s) running the MDM servers are not the person I interface with for the leases and I specify up front they are to remove them prior to shipping them back. Remember I own these machines. I simply charge the customer the full price for the machines (as per the lease agreement) since I have no easy way to remove the MDM. It's not my job to address a discipline issue with another companies IT department. I grind them up into bits and send them to recycle. Grinding up 2021 machines now. Chew on that.

I had the 2016, 2017, and 2018 all of which had issues of their own. On the 2016 15in I couldn't reliably pull off 4K @ 60Hz and of course keyboard space bar and dongles. On the 2017 it was pretty good performance and 4K external. When the keyboard started failing I went back to my 2015 and sent the 2017 in for keyboard repair. I kept using the 2015 when mine came back and then kept the 2017 around for my 4K video player needs but was afraid to put too much use into it. Yes I bought the 2018 also and it has worked fine. No thermal issues and a bit better graphics than the 2017 but the ongoing spat with Nvidia that apparently will never be put to rest hurts us all.  I know not to use the keyboard to heavily and I never eat around it. I am desperate for a 16in with a real HDMI port and I would give anything not to need a dock, dongles, and adapters to USB 3.0. All the M1 13in I have used so far have been fantastic but everyone I helped needed adapters for their drives, keyboards, and video. I tried the 13in M1 on the same 4096x4096 I play on the 2018 and it doesn't work as well so I am holding out for a better graphics core on M1x, M2 or whatever they will call it.

Robin nailed it above. Buying a "new" iMac 21.5 gets you 2015 hardware, and slow notebook hard drive. For Fusion offerings a SSD "hybrid" HD where there is less than 1/5th the SSD portion of the faster 2013 models. You have to buy the middle model and upgrade it for another $100 to get the speed of a base 2013 model. Its frustrating to help my customers with these options. All this while my PC compresses video 3.5 times faster than an iMac and cost $900.

nht said:

stimpy said:
 I've seen it so many times and I have 8 adapters for my current stuff and have to go buy 6 more for USB-C. Losing a floppy is brave, making stuff where your two current products MBP an iPhone dont plug together with the out of the box items is just weird.

Really?  6 more adapters?  Name them.  I bet there is a USB-C hub that replaces them with 1 unit.

USB-C to TB,Ethernet,DVI,VGA,FW800, oh yeah and USB3. They are all in my bag along with more

This article should read "Authorized Service Providers" and not "Third Party Repair Shops"

I watched this from day one. It could potentially make a nice 16TB SSD drive array with the Blade Station (albiet non standard drives). Whats strange is it was originally released with a Blade Station which a year later has never materialized. It's interesting the manufacturer either doesn't have the resources or the confidence in releasing the second half of the two piece solution. Instead they make you buy a $199 dock which is already lowered to $169 and is essentially a non standard cable to allow their drive to do anything. They missed their own launch. This doesn't go well for a new product launch trying to get everyone on your non standard format of connectors. Don't we have enough grief with all the USB-C formats? Why not buy a standard fast external ssd. They come much smaller than the blade and blade transport combined and are cheaper. I guess the previous poster was right its for camera people wanting to function like RED drives.

Their head is so far up their *ss they use typical Apple "how to say no in a positive" "there are many great displays out there." Can you imagine going to buy a 3K Mac Pro at a retail store and they will be programmed not to tell you which monitor to buy unless its on the Apple Store website. I remember buying a new Mac when the Studio Display were discontinued and this was before the more aggressive employee programming.  They actually told me to go buy a Dell monitor. Great I'm at Apple buying a mac and they are advising me to go buy a Dell monitor because the poor employees were left with nothing to sell and a bag of crap with cranky people like me.

If you one of the 29 people who bought one I bet your upset. The 300 US workers they hired to assemble it will be re tasked to process shipping iPads back to Asia to have broken screens repaired.