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  • Benchmarks for high-end iMac 5K show 75 percent speed gain over 2017 model

    killermike2178killermike2178
    Not to be *that* guy, but how do we know this score in question isn't that of a Hackintosh? I'm seeing several i9 9900K iMac 19,1 scores on Geekbench, and they have wildly fluctuating scores that are several hundred points off from each other on the single core tests and several thousand points off from each other on multi-core tests. I'm even seeing an iMac 19,1 score from a test that was taken back on March 3 with i5 3450.


    randominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • Benchmarks for high-end iMac 5K show 75 percent speed gain over 2017 model

    killermike2178killermike2178
    frank777 said:
    OWC sells a 2.0TB SSD for $449.99, while Apple charges $1,100.00 to step up to a 2TB SSD from the 'Best' config of the iMac.
    And in modern Apple fashion, there's no way to upgrade the SSD yourself. 

    Given that I am working with a pure 1TB SSD in my current 2009 iMac, I'm unwilling to 'step down' to a Fusion Drive for my next-gen machine.
    Even if the actual working difference is small. I may end up keeping my next machine for another decade.

    Everything else looks fine. It's powerful, the RAM is upgradable and even if the graphics card is soldered in, 8GB should be fine for awhile.

    The only real problem here for me is the lack of a replaceable SSD, so I wait to see what the Mac Pro brings.
    Not trying to defend Apple here, but if you'll forgive the expression, it's not an apples to apples comparison. That 2 TB SSD option from Apple is an NVMe drive, while the OWC 2TB SSD is a SATA III drive. NVMe is significantly faster than SATA III, so Apple's SSD actually is better than the OWC SSD, though I don't know if it's "more than twice the price" better, but it is better. Apple is also using a proprietary NVMe drive with special connector, so you can't buy an NVMe drive of your own to put it in, only Apple can do it. The price is evil, but it's a necessary evil if you want the most speed out of your iMac.
    frank777watto_cobraescargot

  • 15-inch MacBook Pro Radeon Pro Vega 16 and Vega 20 GPU options now available

    killermike2178killermike2178
    entropys said:
    Is there any reason not to announce new imacs now?
    Don't you understand how staggered releases work? The Xeon Ws and GPUs in the iMac Pro need a refresh before they even talk about updating the standard iMacs to avoid the risk of cannibalizing sales of the lower spec iMac Pros (8/10-core, Vega 56, 1/2 TB, 32/64 GB RAM). Apple likes to have leverage over the consumers, and they lose that leverage if there's a $4500 iMac with an 8 core i9-9900K, Vega 56 or even a Vega 64 (8 GB), user-accessible SO-DIMM slots that can take up to 64 GB RAM, and 1 or 2 TB of NVMe SSD on the shelves at the same time that the absolute base-tier iMac Pro costs $5000, which doesn't even have (easily) user-accessible/upgradeable memory, ECC be damned. I don't even think we'll see a refresh of the iMac Pro until after the 2019 Mac Pro hits shelves next year. Maybe the Mac Pro will go back to a large tower design, and will use that 28-core Xeon W-3175X that was announced early last month, along with dual GPUs and up to 512 GB of ECC RAM.

    fastasleepwilliamlondon

  • Seven new MacBook & MacBook Pro models on the way

    killermike2178killermike2178
    What Apple needs to do with their MacBook lineup:

    1. Kill off the Retina 12" MacBook. In a world where a faster MacBook Air with a 13.3" inch screen exists, there is no reason for this thing to still be in the ecosystem, especially considering it hasn't been updated in 2 years. 

    2. Rebrand the 13" MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar as the MacBook. When I see the word MacBook without a trailing Air or Pro, I think of something that's slightly heavier and more powerful than the Air, but not quite as powerful as the Pro with Touch Bar, which is exactly what it is as of right now, though it could use some soec bumps to remain relevant, since it also hasn't been updated in 2 years.

    3. Everybody keeps talking about Apple bringing a 16-16.5" MacBook Pro with a nearly bezel-less design sometime next year, and I'm here thinking "Y'all do remember that Apple used to have a 17" MacBook Pro, right?" I say bring *that* back with a Retina 4K screen, and with a slightly larger battery, so they can double or even quadruple the memory capacity, especially if the current 15" model has two SODIMM slots with soldered modules. Samsung has 32 GB ECC SODIMM modules in the works, so if they can double that to 4 slots in a larger Logicboard, then they could easily give us a mobile i9 with 128 GB of RAM or better yet,  a mobile Xeon with 128 GB of ECC RAM. Maybe bump up that Vega 20 to something better with 8 or even 16 GB of HBM2 VRAM. Other laptop manfacturers (Dell and Lenovo come to mind) have 17" pro notebooks that are beefier than their 15" counterparts, it's time Apple did the same. 
    Jake Dansarge