melgross

These rings are known for being inaccurate. I imagine most people using them aren’t aware of that as they don’t have anything to compare them to. I’ve trusted my Apple Watches as they shown themselves to be very accurate. I also can wear a watch in my shops, but I can’t wear rings.

I’m not seeing much point to a variable aperture other than possibly for exposure control. Samsung tried a variable aperture and it didn’t go well. There was pretty much no difference in the photo.

a perfect lens always is sharpest at the widest aperture. Then diffraction begins to soften the image. Canon has a few new lenses that are very close to this now. But these are pretty expensive lenses. It’s possible that closing down a stop here might help the loss in corner sharpness I see on the new ultra wide. So that would be helpful. But this would likely go on the main lens instead. Most lenses benefit going down two stops from wide open, but again, these are complex, expensive lenses. As it is, these small sensors need all the light they can get, so I’m not sure if this would be much help.

I’m sure that if they think it’s warranted, OWC could figure out how to do this. The law allows it, so it wouldn’t be something Apple could prevent and possibly something they wouldn’t want to prevent. There wouldn’t be millions of people wanting this, just thousands, or maybe tens of thousands. That’s nothing. The question is whether sales would be enough for OWC to make a good profit after the R&D and production costs.

the only problem would be as to whom would remove and replace the board? Most people who think they can do this really can’t. If you look at the mini tear downs, you see how many screws are involved. Possible reprogramming the chips may be involved too. Thankfully, no more glue as in some older units the past few years. So, people may have to send their mini in for this which increases the hassle and cost and adds time before you can use it.

so obviously, this can be done, but which would cost more, Apple’s upgrade to the larger SSD, or OWC’s upgrade?

Apple’s stock is down because they guided to the low middle single digits for the holiday quarter. I’d bet if they guided to the mid to high single digits the stock would be up. They just don’t get that Apple’s guidance is always conservative. one would think they would understand that after decades, but apparently not.

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thedba said:

maclin3 said:

Yawn. Show me the 32” and I’ll show you my money.  Still running a 27” iMac with 4 i7 processors and I prefer it over my wife's 24” M1 iMac. 

Let’s see, if an iMac 32 inch ever sees the light of day, be prepared to pay through your nose.

That display will have to be 6K and guess what that will do the starting price.

Yeah. I did the math back in the M1 days. A 32" iMac would be on order 3k to 4k, and LCD only. 220 PPI displays are not common and a 32" 220 PPI is probably 2x the cost of the ASD display. If it was miniLED or OLED? Don't even ask.

Apple can make a 27" iMac for $1800 to $2000 though. That's just an ASD with a M4 computer inside. And if Apple keeps their prices for the M4 Mac mini, it should be around $1800 to $2000 for the base 16/512 SKU. Not going to happen.

The iMac, which is basically the original Macintosh form factor, has had a 40 year run. Today, Mac sales are 90% laptops. That's not changing. It's a miracle that they sell a Mac Pro, an iMac and a Mac mini. If there is something they could possibly do, it's probably to increase the display size of the iMac from 24" to 26", something size and display quality that keeps it a $1300 base SKU.

Exactly! Besides, I think that 32” is really too big for most people. That’s a really big display. It may not sound much bigger, but looking at one shows just how gigantic it it. Not only will it take up more space, but=ut you have to sit further away and the height means more neck bending. Since the top of the screen is supposed to be at eye height, something few people with bigger displays can manage, a 32 would make for a bad situation. 27” is plenty for almost everyone not in higher end production.